Dubmatix Sticky Icky Reggae Mix

About Dubmatix Sticky Icky Reggae Mix

Hosted by Dubmatix and showcasing the finest Sticky Icky Reggae tunes from around the globe — spanning dub to dancehall, rocksteady to roots, and every rhythm in between. Tune in weekly to experience the infectious beats that transcend borders.

Publisher

Dubmatix

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Feb 2022

Latest episode

18 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

276 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Mar 2026

   Habibi Funk: The Soul of the Arab World

   The story of Habibi Funk begins not in Cairo or Beirut but in Berlin, where a young record collector named Jannis Stürtz spent years haunting second-hand shops and chasing down obscure leads across North Africa and the Middle East. What he was piecing together was a sound the Arab world had largely forgotten, a body of music from the 1960s and 1970s that absorbed soul, funk, psychedelia, and Latin grooves, then filtered them through local sensibilities, languages, and heartbreak. Stürtz launched Habibi Funk Records in 2016 as a reissue label, but what he was really doing was making the case that this music deserved to be heard on its own terms, as something essential rather than merely curious. The 1970s were the golden decade, and nowhere does that feel more alive than in Morocco and Libya. In Morocco, Fadoul was the genre’s unruly spirit, a singer who absorbed James Brown and pushed him somewhere rawer, more street-level, with records like Sid Redad built on a groove that barely holds together and is all the better for it. Attarazat Addahabia and vocalist Faradjallah occupied stranger territory, blending gnawa trance music with fuzzy electric guitars and a psychedelic looseness that places a track like Al Hadaoui somewhere between Marrakech and Woodstock. Down in Libya, the picture was equally rich. The Scorpions, not the German rock band but a Sudanese-Libyan outfit led by guitarist Sharhabil Ahmed alongside vocalist Saif Abu Bakr, were making some of the most quietly sophisticated music of the era, tracks like Seira Music and Nile Waves carrying a cool, unhurried confidence that sounds almost effortless. Ibrahim Hesnawi and Ahmed Fakroun rounded out a Libyan scene that had genuine range, from Hesnawi’s deep, stately Watany Al Kabir to Fakroun’s more cosmopolitan Sahranin, a track that could sit comfortably alongside anything coming out of Lagos or Kingston in the same period. What this playlist makes clear is that Habibi Funk was never really a genre in the narrow sense. It was a moment of possibility, spread across a dozen countries and twice as many musical traditions, held together by a shared appetite for rhythm, modernity, and something that felt genuinely alive. You hear Fadoul or Fakroun or Al Massrieen, and you understand immediately that nothing was lost in translation, that these artists took what they wanted from the wider world and made it entirely their own.

2. 

   16 Mar 2026

   The Clash: The Only Band That Matters

   A one-hour journey through The Clash, the London punk outfit that turned rage, reggae, and raw conviction into some of the most important music ever made.

3. 

   16 Mar 2026

   Prince in His Early Years: Before the Revolution

   His path into the industry was unconventional and, in retrospect, an early signal of the kind of control he would demand throughout his career. After recording a demo at Moon Sound Studio in Minneapolis with engineer Chris Moon, Prince caught the attention of Owen Husney, a local manager who bankrolled professional demo sessions and pitched the teenage prodigy to major labels. The pitch was simple and audacious: here was a seventeen-year-old who could play every instrument on his own recordings, produce his own material, and write songs of genuine commercial and artistic depth. Warner Bros. signed him in 1977, giving him an unusually generous arrangement that granted him production autonomy; an almost unheard-of concession for an artist making their debut. He went into the studio alone. His debut album, For You, released in 1978, was recorded almost entirely by Prince himself, overdubbing every part in a painstaking solo effort. It was a commercial modest start, but it announced something unmistakable: a singular artistic intelligence operating at full capacity.

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