EVENTS : Big Toes Hifi & Deadly Dragon Sound @ Taos Mesa Brewing Company ~ Sunday 31 March 2013!

Feat: Big Toes Hifi, Deadly Dragon Sound
When: Sunday 31 March 2013 8pm
Where: Taos Mesa Brewing Company (20 ABC Mesa Road, Elprado, New Mexico)
Admission: $5

http://www.facebook.com/events/280705738728145/?ref=3

EVENTS : Big Toes Hifi Welcomes Deadly Dragon Sound ~ Friday 29 March 2013!

Feat: Big Toes Hifi, Deadly Dragon Sound
When: Friday 29 March 2013 9pm - 1am
Where: El Rialto Attic (141 Bridge St, Las Vegas)
Admission: $4

http://www.facebook.com/events/249152718554684/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Big Toes Hifi Presents Diegojah - Step Inna Di Dance b/w Gospel Fish - Lord Of The Ring 7"!

BIG TOES HIFI Presents DIEGOJAH – STEP INNA DI DANCE b/w GOSPLE FISH – LORD OF THE RING 7” – Limited Edition Vinyl Press with Original Silk Screen Art Work by Big Toe’s PAPA LUCA!




Diegojah / Gospel Fish - Step Inna Di Dance / lord Of The Ring (Big Toes Hifi) 7"
http://www.deadlydragonsound.com/v3_records_info.php?id=32017


Out there is the big, bad world of sound systems it is always a pleasure to link up with sounds that you just recognize, almost immediately, as good peoples – so it was with Big Toes Hi Fi. Big Toe’s Hifi was born out of Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, back in 2003. Created by artist/ sculptor John Farrugia (a.k.a Barba Poppa Choppa), an early version of the soundsystem was carved in the dungeons of the College’s wood workshops and soon the sweet sound of reggae, dancehall and dub could be heard at regular monthly dances held in the art college at the Wee Red Bar.

As the dances and the soundsystem progressed, so did the Big Toe’s crew with B-Dawg and Papa Luca,C-Biscuit, Jockass, Spliffka all joining up!

These days, Big Toe’s Hifi has progressed into an international soundsystem, with operations in the U.K, Canada and New Mexico, U.S.A. There are now 3 versions of the soundsystem that can be heard playing across the globe in each of the respective countries and beyond….

Alongside soundsystem and speaker building, Big Toe’s also run their own record label specializing in limited edition 7” vinyl releases. Their latest 7” featuring legendary Jammy’s/ Penthouse artist Gosple Fish and Sweden’s rising dancehall voice original Diegojah is available at Deadly Dragon


For more about Big Toes Hi Fi check:

http://www.myspace.com/bigtoeshifi

http://soundcloud.com/papa-luca-big-toes-hi-fi

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=p.245301405523808&type=1#!/groups/21310915577/


To Celebrate this killer release we crafted a new Podcast showcasing the Big Toe’s vinyl alongside a heap of tuff digital and a few more cuts by one of our favorite new artists, DIEGOJAH.

Check the The Podcast: http://deadlydragonsoundsystem.podomatic.com/entry/2013-01-27T12_29_44-08_00




Diegojah - Bubbling Style (Downbeat Sounds) 7"
http://www.deadlydragonsound.com/v3_records_info.php?id=31270





Diegojah - Big Ganja Spliff (Reggae Toy Box) 7"
http://www.deadlydragonsound.com/v3_records_info.php?id=32123




http://www.facebook.com/officialdiegojah

Brand New Podcast : Nuff Respect To Big Toes Hi FI inna New Year Style!

This one going out to the BIG TOES HI FI family and their new 7" release featuring Diegojah and Gosple Fish (check www.deadlydragonsound.com for a copy of this ya one!). The tunes are WICKED fi real and we just had to build a mix around them and one of our favorite new artists, Mr. Diegojah! Bless!

Diegojah - Step Inna Di Dance (Big Toes) / Gosple Fish - Lord of the Ring (Big Toes) / Diegojah - Bubbling Style (Downbeat Digital) / Diegojah - Big Ganja Spliff (Reggae Toy Box) / Carl Meeks - Tuff Scout (Redman ) / Ricky Melody - What a Act (Alpine reissue) / Bam Shelters - Funny Feeling (Triumphant) / Cocoa Tea - Ynu Pang (Ital International) / Super Black - Just Magic (Photographer) / Courtney Melody - Screechy Cross The Border (Stereo International) / Captain Kidd - Trouble Never Set Rain (Multi Stars) / Wayne Smith - E20 (Jammys Reissue) / Rubber T - Nuh Do We So (Tero Intl) / Major Mackrel - Down In the Sea (Kings Crown) / Cojo Reid - Champion Don (Frontline) / Yoruba - Jollification (Stage) / Tony Tuff - Heat In The Place (Ossie / Goldshop reissue) / Collie Weed - Feelings (Nite Life) / Singer Blue - Aids a Sin (Tanto) / Paul Brady - Video We (Big Belly man) / Jr. Frost & Dignitary Stylish - Under Pressure (Dignitary) / Robert Lee - Just Be Nice (Supa Jay) / Barry Reid - Niceous Rule (Rockers) / Top Cat - Dem Haffi Chain We (Harry J) / Errol Turner - Respect Due (Metro Media) / Colonel Jolly Joseph - New Style Fi Dem (Kulumi) / Shabba - Love Punaany Bad (Jammys) / Major Mackrel - Pretty Looks Done (Jammys) / Leslie Thunder - Ram Dance Man (Jammys) / Vybz & Shabba - Love Punaany Bad (BG) / Gregory Isaacs - Report to Me (Music Works ) / Sugar Minott - Give Some Love (Waterhouse) / Earl Anthony - Sensi Man Rock (Look To Africa) / Benny Paige & Mr. Williamz - Pass The Kutchie (Necessary Mayhem) / Red Rose & Gentleman - Tempollution (VP) / Million Stylez & Joey Fever - Young Gunz (Necessary Mayhem) / Delton Screechy - How Do You Quit (Newportville ) / Super Cat - Sandokan (Xterminator) / Super Kong - Lack of Money (Newportville) / Earl Francis - Gringo (Raiders) / Pinchers - Bad Boy Style (Fresh Breed) / Gringo Tarzan - Deportee Return (Uprising Star) / Sattalite - Thanks and Praise (Junior Scorpio)

Fresh Repress : Mighty Rulers - Chat Yu Mouth from Deadly Dragon Sound/Play Music!

MIGHTY RULERS – CHAT YU MOUTH 7” (limited edition of 500 singles) with sleeves designed and hand silkscreened in a numbered edition of 500 by artist Aaron Juarros of Big Toes HI FI

 A bunch of years ago Selector JD and myself, Scratch Famous, were pulling records for a radio show.  We had just got in a big collection of 80s tunes and rather blindly I grabbed a handful of tunes out of the boxes.  Tunes that just gave off that vibe of being BIG!  Well…big was kind of an under-statement as the tunes that I grabbed ended up being some of the toughest and rarest 80s tunes that we ever had in the shop.  One tune in particular stood out though…Mighty Rulers – Chat Yu Mouth.  The minute we dropped the 7” on the platter we were enveloped in a serious roll of bass over which plaintive vocals, rich with delicious harmonies, illustrated the necessity of staying positive under the barrage of negative back biters and pirates.  The tune was such a murderous piece of music that as it finished, JD nodded at me and just said…”Damn, nice pull!”

 Well for years and years that radio show echoed throughout the world of serious fans of 80s digital reggae.  Probably a week did not pass without someone emailing us or calling us begging us to find a copy of CHAT YU MOUTH.    And yu know what? We just could not find the damn tune.  It eluded us.  We would think we found it, only to be disappointed.

 And it was not only collectors and DJs calling asking about the tune…In early 2012,  Donald Marshall keyboardist and vocalist of the MIGHTY RULERS and THE DETERMINATIONS called us asking if we had a copy.  He explained that The Determinations had formed in 1979 with him, Dervin Dawes (lead vocalist) and Anthony Hill in Kingston.  As the Determinations they had put out a number of tunes in England, and in the mid 80s Dervin Dawes, wanting to showcase a different side to the trio, came up with the name MIGHTY RULERS and the three recorded CHAT YU MOUTH at TUFF GONG with Sticky the percussionist and other members of the High Times stable.   Dervin Dawes was not only the lead vocalist for CHAT YU MOUTH, but wrote and arranged the tune as well as providing the art work and name for the original 7" on PLAY MUSIC.  When the tune was finished, Donald guessed that only about 100 pieces were pressed up.  Most were given to friends and people that played on the record.  As the years went on the tune was forgotten, while The Determinations continued to make music.  Eventually Donald starting hearing from collectors the world over about what a rare and great piece of music CHAT YU MOUTH had been.  Unfortunately all the master tapes and stampers for the tune were destroyed and Donald himself was left without a copy.

 Well…through some SERIOUS digging we here at Deadly Dragon finally located a copy and began to work in partnership with Donald, Dervin and the MIGHTY RULERS to create a reissue so that everyone could finally enjoy the tune.  While we would have loved to have built stampers from the original tapes, or from the original stamper, we had to work with what we had and while the vinyl transfer was not pristine, we felt the greatness of CHAT YU MOUTH justified going forward with this ya reissue.  We hope you all will agree.



MIGHTY RULERS - CHAT YU MOUTH VIDEO





and in honor of the CHAT YU MOUTH reissue we proudly present a Brand New Podcast Called CHAT YU MOUTH:

Big Up Big Toes Hi Fi!!

Aaron from Big Toe Hi Fi came thru the store today to pick up the new Park Heights reissues. Big Up the Big Toe and check the dates:





Big Toes Sound System!





Feat: Bushrocker Hi-Fift, Selecta Cojo, Mcs Danjah and Ragga Youth
When: Saturday 17th April 2010 9pm - 2.30am
Where: The Burley Liberal Club (Burley road, Leeds)

For more info:

www.myspace.com/bigtoeshifi