One of soundsystem culture's most fascinating elements is sound clash for sure. Comrades join a convention, presenting freshest treasures in friendly competition. 
Imagine this single as a peaceful battle between two heavy weight produbbers of the bass music scene. One like long-term 45seven hero Beam Up meets Bukkha on the other side debuting on this junglist's sunday paper of an imprint, shining in all his honour of his latest signings on System, Moonshine and Lion Charge. Them meet up to deliver two vibrating bombs of dubwise halftime Jungle bassiness:
Double Trouble brings all the gold standards to the table, like amen breaks, mighty sub bass, melodica, skanks, vocal snippets and a well wicked organ in the very center. Better take off your hoodies as this dance will get burnt like lava. Lion better get done fi BBQ! [...]


"Sounding tuff!" Om Unit
"Nice 1" Loxy
"Big up mate, these are sick" Tamen
"Mega dope release again!" Maltin Worf
"Loving the vibe on these, hitting on every level, some serious weight to them too, will definitely be supporting" Kyam
"Both sides are fat. Sounding super definately. No wonder with this mates." Jah Schulz
"Love the vibe as usual! There is some caribean, sono mundial, dancehall vibe on first side along roots and jungle. Love the B side , mega festive Jungle sound system session vibe." Marquis Son Sistem
"Super. great vibes without forced happiness. really good arrangements as well. the chopped amens on Double Trouble know how to wake up. One Shot got a nice dirty aesthetic, I Iike!" Dreadmaul
"Strong release, mega fat mix!" DJ Detox

A: Beam Up & Bukkha - Double Trouble (3m52s, 170BPM)
AA: Bukkha & Beam Up - One Shot (3m20s, 170BPM)

This 45RPM 7inch vinyl in stamped cardboard sleeves with catalogue number 
45722 on 45Seven Unlimited will be released in March 2022 through friendly distribution by Suburban Trash, Unearthed, Toolbox and Hardwax.
Curated, designed, mastered and lacquer cut by LXC at Alphacut in Leipzig

http://beamup.org/
https://www.discogs.com/artist/19883-Beam-Up
https://soundcloud.com/beamup

https://soundcloud.com/bukkhaspace
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1518596-Bukkha

http://alphacut.net/#457

Double Trouble (45Seven 45722)

Beam Up & Bukkha - Double Trouble (45722, 7", 2022)

Tubby Isiah - Roots Man Special (DUBPLATE)

All Instruments are Live Played and mixed by Another Channel

Click on "Buy", there you find the link for the download!

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Another Channel - Banana Blues( FREE DOWNLOAD WAV)

It feels redundant to introduce a duo so beloved by, and important to, the modern UK and global sound system community. If you don’t know Dubkasm by now, then you must be very new to the scene indeed! Working tirelessly over the last two and a half decades to forward the traditions of sound system reggae, dubplate culture, and Bristol history in particular, Stryda and Digistep as Dubkasm are truly an institution. It’s always an honor to work with them, whether live or on wax, and this record is another testament to their continuing vitality, vibes, and vision. 

“Mighty Designer” is a mystical stepper of the highest order. Gorgeous flute rides a tough riddim dominated by a relentless bassline. Clocking in at 140 bpm it’s both languid and driving, heartical and militant, an opalescent jewel of a tune that is also message music: while the second half goes full dubwise, the first features a profound meditation on the wisdom of the Creator as witnessed in the beauty and balance of Creation. “When you check out… how each thing set up in a different mathematical order- you know it must be a Mighty Designer…”

On the flip, the abstract intro to “Almighty Version” signals we’re in for a tougher Part-2-style. Percussion and hi-hat tease and intertwine before dropping into the elemental bass & drum attack. The voice is stripped completely, as all-hands-on-desk focus on bass, drums, filtered percussion, and reverb and echo as instruments. Animal sounds and melodics emerge from a dense, primordial, teeming background to shimmer briefly then recede again. “Almighty Version” is a trance-inducing dub that continues the meditation on the message - through music alone.     

Mastered by Sam at Precise. Art, design, and screen printing by Polygon Press. Limited to 800 vinyl copies for the world. No repress, no digital. Shipping end of November, 2022.

Dubkasm "Mighty Designer" b/w "Almighty Version" ZamZam 89 7" vinyl blend

Order:
https://moonshinerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/occulte

Track-list:
A1 Ezeph - Egregore
A2 Ezeph ft Milton Spencer - Deeper
A3 Ezeph ft Earl 16 - Universal jam
A4 Ezeph - Hesperides
B1 Ezeph ft Boy Blue - Herbs
B2 Ezeph - Discorde
B3 Ezeph - Substance
B4 Ezeph - Visions of Baal

Artist: EZEPH @ezeph-music 
Title: Occulte
Label: Moonshine Recordings
Format: vinyl LP + DL Code
Genre: Dub Techno, Dub
Release date: 24th Mar 2023
Cat: MSLP015

Occulte

Ezeph - Universal Jam ft. Earl 16

We love it when family return to ZamZam and #92 welcomes back Blind Prophet & Ishan Sound in their first cross-pond collab.  



Begun in 2019 when Joe & Cris met in Portland for the first time, “The Labyrinth” is a phantasmagoric dream of intertwining melodic figures, buoyant mid-range synth work, bright percussion and piping flutes over a driving steppers riddim. Playful, even spritely, but belying a menacing core.



Flipping the key and darkening the vibe substantially, “Minotaur Dub” strips out the lighter tones, pulsing and pushing through dark tunnels of reverb and echo, deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of refracting drums and relentless bass, the sound of pursuit, predator and prey. Fusing the spectral with the functional, the mythic with the technological, this release is for deep forest dances and subterranean sessions alike. This one is ruff… and tuff!!

Strictly limited to 700 copies for the world. No digital, no repress. Art, design, & screen print by Polygon Press. Mastered by Sam at Precise, pressed at Third Man. Releasing end of July, 2023.

Blind Prophet & Ishan Sound "The Labyrinth" b/w "Minotaur Dub" ZamZam 92 7" vinyl blend

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Available on 7" vinyl at alphacut.net/#457 or all well-selected stores soon.
45SEVEN logo and label design by www.ithinkitsnice.com
Frequencies lifted by @lxc at @wattasound

Jungle Is Our Dub / Dub To Jungle

Rainforest - Jungle Is Our Dub (45717, 7", 2016)

C-Side - Meditation Dub [dubplate] [clip]

Babe Roots are a relatively young duo from Turin, Italy, making a unique brand of atmospheric, techno-infused dubwise.  On our radar since their splendid debut 7” on Rohs! Records in early 2016, we are very pleased to invite them into the ZamZam fold with two mesmerizing and contrasting tunes.  

“Be Still” is a deeply meditative yet driving dub techno trek in classic fashion, featuring rastaman Kojo Neatness intoning on righteous living, working the land, guarding the tongue, and avoiding Babylonian schemes and traps laid by the wicked.  Maternal bass and shimmering reverbs envelop a heartbeat rhythm of kick, shaker and distant snares for a timeless vibe that shows mastery of the idiom while updating it for contemporary sound systems.  

“Rawness” is an extraordinarily deep 140 journey that opens with rich pads and swirling atmospherics, creating a psychoactive ambience that builds into a steady kick.  The full riddim hits and plunges us even deeper with restrained, syncopated drums and percussion.  Churning bass powers us through the dense, hallucinatory fog as tendrils of electricity probe and zap, and serrated snares cut through the tape haze and studio clouds in the last third.  Carving out a gorgeous edge between deep dubstep and dub techno, “Rawness” hits all the marks and will find a home in a huge range of sets.

Mastered by Sam Precise.  Design & screen print by Polygon Press.  Limited to 600 copies for the world.  No digital, no repress.  Contact zamzamsounds@gmail.com for subscriptions, wholesale, or other info.  Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to stay in the loop!

Babe Roots "Be Still" feat Kojo Neatness b/w "Rawness" ZamZam 59 7" vinyl rip blend

Rider Shafique, Ishan Sound, and Kahn need no introductions.  As individual artists and fellow members of Bristol’s Young Echo collective, they are responsible for some of the most crucial music to come out of Bristol in the last decade.  We couldn’t be prouder to deliver this powerful message music in these extremely dread times.

In a catalog overflowing with lyrical majesty, “When Shall We rise” is one of Rider Shafique’s most direct and moving missives yet - a critical dissection of the racist foundations of dominant culture - whether UK, EU, or US - and the struggle of the racially oppressed within it.  The plea to abandon assimilation into Babylon system, in lesser hands could easily be cliched or flat-footed, but with Rider’s pen and voice it is a revelatory spiritual call-to-arms - there are no saviors coming - we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. 

The riddim is classic Kahn & Ishan- uncompromising rockstone mid-tempo steppers that is at once orthodox and utterly, inimitably their own- plucked strings, haunted pipes, pounding kick and heaving bassline in propulsive amalgamation. Straight off the desk, “When Shall We Dub” strips the vocal out entirely, focusing on breaking down the incredibly militant riddim, crafting a dark, roiling ocean of reverb, swells of delay breaking the surface in blackest night.

A closely guarded dub for several years, “When Shall We Rise” is now free to circulate and become the anthem that it demands.

Releasing early April 2020. Limited to 800 vinyl copies for the world, no repress, no digital. Design & screen print by Polygon Press. Mastering by Sam at Precise Mastering. Email zamzamsounds@gmail.com for info on ordering, subscribing, or for stockists in your area of the world. Peace, health, & strength to all.

Rider Shafique, Ishan Sound & Kahn "When Shall We Rise" + Dub ZamZam 77 vinyl blend

45SEVEN is a 7" imprint specialising in all things dubwise - from rootsy jungle to cosmic dub.   Mastered and cut by the vinyl professor LXC and pressed on authentic 7" with cut out hole these releases pack a punch - just like the original 45's that shook Jamaican sound systems to their foundations in the 70's!  Join Lord LXC and Duke Dubmonger on their journey through the sonic realms of dub and beyond!

Beam Up & Bukkha - Double Trouble (45722, 7", 2022)

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