A collaboration with Audiovert(Paul Greenstein)from around 2008 as a work in progress. More on Audiovert
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Madtone and Audiovert – African Bass

An exclusive tune from the Weeds Up To Me Knees blog from Madtone called "A Dahlia state of mind" a special dub of the track "Radio is my friend." 
Released July 2016 by kind permission of Blossoms Kitchen Records. 
A Weeds Up To Me Knees release. Weedsupto 001.
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Madtone  – A Dahlia State Of Mind (Weeds Up To Me Knees Exclusive Mix)

A taster from the forthcoming collection "Africa Don't" from Jazzmin Tutum & Madtone.

Women in War Zones

She surfaces.
A memory.

News needs
paper clipping
sticking,
swelling,
forming the
word.
Here are the Women
in time parallels...

Past. Future.
Nothing in between
just the micro seconds
knotting the rubber bands
that dry rot and wear away
Thread-bare are the tapestries of life

A woman in a war zone
will crack the silence
because the leaking sickness
she watches trails from her own
open fruit body
And she will never forget
the sharp weapons to be found in
door-less places...

but now it is the night
searching
roundness
in the air
moistness
time watching.
Silence expected

© Jazzmin & Madtone 2016

Jazzmin & Madtone – Women In War Zones

A taster from the forthcoming collection "Africa Don't" from Jazzmin Tutum & Madtone.

I Once Saw the Revolutionary in You...

I once saw the bright lights
sudden flash and then gone--
or gone in sudden flash
bulbs explode and shatter the daily grind
--all the energy of dreams--
you were once blooming with hope
you said there should be a great new country,
for a fair and better future...
You were one of the few who dared to return
to the mother, to the mother land
at first to watch the hyenas running
round and round
snapping at each others tails
and in disbelief you blurred your own vision
then bottled it
stale beer
even the torch you held high
burnt out
in weak curls of smoke
at the end of hourly joints
Now all that you remember
is that you didn't
want to know the white mans ways,
you didn't want
to study in his school,
and you didn't want to work
in his factories
until there was nothing left to work for,
because you forgot
what you were working for...
This is your land and you are still surprised
that there is no material
that there is nothing to build
that the heat is simply too hot to move in;
you feel blacker than black,
and you roll on
a slave to the days
Who ever told you it would be different
here on earth?

© Jazzmin Tutum & Madtone 2016

Africa Don't

Jazz’min & Madtone – I once saw the revolutionary in you

Madtone – Compost your mind

Pete’s tribute to Maria Thun who died earlier this year. Respect is due!

Madtone – Thunn

The first fruits of the collaboration between Dub Poet Jazz'min Tutum and Madtone with DJ Perch from Zion Train at the controls. A rework of Madtone’s "Message from Madtone"

Jazzmin & Madtone - To Beckett with Dub/Akai Mi

Electronica/Dub/Shortwave Radio/Interval Signals/Numbers Stations/Cassette Tapes

One Deck Pete (Pete P from Weeds up to me knees and London in your lunch hour) records under the name Madtone when he is not making compost, gardening, practising tai chi, listening to his beloved shortwave radio or writing for blogs. He resides in South London where he has been releasing music on his Blossoms Kitchen label since the beginning of time it seems.

His music is influenced by his collection of seventies reggae and soul scratched 7'ers, old punk tapes and fanzines, ancient shortwave recordings, warped cassette tapes, reggae soundtapes, balearic DJ mixes and what he records off his Yaesu FRG-7700.

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