Taken from No Live ’Til Leather '98
https://bokeh-versions.com/album/no-live-til-leather-98

Sweet rat infested tape gold rescued from the cosmic dust bin & handed to us without comment from Sir Revsalot (lead vox?).

No Live ’Til Leather '98

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Leather Rats - Putting The Danger Back On The Road (live)

Taken from Futuro Antigo Perpétuo
out now on cassette and t shirt:
felinto.bandcamp.com/album/futuro-antigo-perp-tuo-2

Kaledoscopic digdub fractals that radiate light and dark onto scattering drumskins, intersecting trumpet lines bouncing of the wooooooosh of pedals in overdrive - struck by a blur of Sao Paulo’s leading hands in a dizzying trip through the psychedelic sound experience.

Production: @felintohands and Felipe Julian AKA Craca
Timbal, Conga and Drums: Mariano Sarine
Melodica: Douglas Leal
Bèlè Drum: Boris Reine Adelaide

Futuro Antigo Perpétuo

Felinto - Sempre

@rer-repeter
Taken from the Bad Twang LP available on Bokeh now:
https://repreprep.bandcamp.com/album/bad-twang

Taking the DIY back-street percussive troubadour sounds of In Fine Style - the percussion on the album is literally trash: empty cans of coke, the kick a lightbulb on the palm of a hand -
Bad Twang is an adventurous approach in bringing together the aesthetics of surf-rock soundtracks, post-world exotica and punk attitude with spring reverb’d dub. It’s your post-nuclear surf film Shadows montage, John Wayne’s hologram in a zombie Tarantino deepfake. Twaaannnnnnggggggg.

Répéter - The Armchair Explorer

Just when you think you've heard all the Sleng Teng riddims.....
Taken from the Reducer 12" available on Bandcamp:

https://reducer.bandcamp.com/album/reducer-2

Private press industro-dub madness beamed from squat-life Northampton, circa the 80s. The first and last word in classic dancehall punk comes around for a SECOND issue 12″ scraped off the linings of the cosmic dustbin that tried to bury them.

Real relics acquired direct from Reducer guitarist and tape-loopist Hooly ‘the Human Aerial; Insant cop if you’re into: Eric Random, Jah Wobble & PIL, African Head Charge, any 80s post-punk to be honest.

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Reducer - Sleng Teng Masters

Fuego new/old G Sudden track from the archive, released as part of the 10 years of Duppy VAULTED comp:

duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/duppy-vaulted-2011-2021

AS we arrive at a decade of DUPPY we thought it was a good time to give life to some of our favorite tracks that never made their way onto official releases, so we have DUPPY VAULTED, 19 tracks of prime, DUPP’D-era-spanning excellence. From LOPO & BUTCHY FUEGO's dembow-inflected kayak bangers to an unreleased SIKKA RYMES/GENESIS HULL dubplate, ABU AMA’s rolling drums with chatter from SNIPER & LYRICAL WIZ & back around to a grip of BIG FLYTE & VELKRO heaters with I JAHBAR. The next decade of DUPPY is upon us & our clips are FULLY LOADED.

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G Sudden - Me A Pree Dem [prod. Velkro]

From RDL Shellah's debut Showcase EP, prod by @seekersinternational

https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/showcase-ep

RDL Shellah (the artist formerly known as RDL) follows up the long sold out pop-grade 2021 Streets 7” produced by Mexico’s riddim queen Smurphy with a full Showcase EP featuring Canadian collective Seekersinternational (SKRS) on the buttons once again.

Lead single ‘Bad Wine’ is pure silky-tongued summer heater with a dusty boom-bap soul like a Jamaican take on Anderson Paak and Knxwledge; while the video tells a classic ‘where is my boyfriend’ story that’s as old as time. RDL Shellah has been part of I Jahbar’s Roolingz Musik collective, recording under the name Providence and guesting on tracks like ‘Rock the Party’ before joining him in Duppy Gun operations. The Showcase EP marks his first big artistic statement as a solo vocalist before he embarks on another collaborative EP in 2022 with I Jahbar sharing vocal duties (also produced by Seekersinternational).

RDL Shellah - Touch Road

Taken from "Entity Attachment"

https://bkvcadavre.bandcamp.com/album/vom-entity-attachment

Cos goth is just dub for people without enough vitamin D…..

The first release on Bokeh’s goth/industrio-horror sister label BKV Cadavre rises from cvlt Glasgow band VOM. Before now, they were already the best and most original zero-nostalgia goth band in Scotland since Twisted Nerve - as heard on 2013’s perfect Altered States LP.

But anyone lucky enough to witness their live workouts or the few tracks on At War With False Noise’s 2020 comp Votive Offerings know there’s a different trio lurking. Entity Attachment is the first album in this long evolution: 6 tracks of macabre steppas and dread-drenched drum tracks for paranoid late night DMT trippers and folk-horror-scifi soundtracks. Spaces between drum machine hits fill with billowing noise, vocals are now stripped back to distant yelps bouncing off stone walls, bass brought to the fore in dub-grade workouts.

To understand what’s aligning here: there’s snatches of vampiric Bauhaus dubpunk buried between touches of industrial darkwave acts like Black Funeral, Murderous Vision and Controlled Bleeding surgically grafted onto the new breed of dread n bass like our pal Ossia (check the closer Goetic Ritual for most proof).

VOM - The Zone

The earliest known recordings of thee great lost cosmic squatters / dub punks: Reducer.

reducer.bandcamp.com/album/nada-nuevo

"This cassette is a re release of a 2 track cassette Reducer gave away to the 1st 23 punters through the door at our 2nd gig in 1985. We have added 2 other tracks from the same recording session because we are lovely people who wish to share enlightenment"

Reducer - Force Of The Source [1985]

https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/andromeda-ep

DG 4.0 sees the next generation vocal crew outta the Duppy / Roolingz / Bokeh studio in Damhead JA fuse sci-fi stylee with Element - one of the brains behind Japanese renegade soundsystem outlet Riddim Chango.

Across 4 tracks and 3 version I Jahbar & Darkblood shout down murder once again and say konichiwa to their global community, while lighting up an itchy smokers anthem on Puff It. G Sudden's ode to rum culture Walk and Stagger pulses over the UK bassline swagger of Rum Song Riddim. King G closes things with a shout to Chopdawg aka the General I Jahbar himself.

Element's world-sized riddims put all 'techno dancehall' pretenders to shame. Fresh from his dread-soaked work with Kingston's eminent dub poet Nazamba, this EP establishes him as a heavyweight on this global scene.

A triple co-release joining UK, Japan, US and Jamaican minds on one 12" single from Duppy Gun x Riddim Chango x Bokeh Versions.

Live Long and Grow Strong.

Andromeda EP

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Element - Rum Song Riddim

King G - Chopping

G Sudden - Walk & Stagger

Element - Puff It Riddim

I Jahbar & Darkblood - Puff It

Element - Andromeda Riddim

I Jahbar & Darkblood - Love My People

Following up the IfUWantMe 7" single, Seekersinternational do lovers rock inna SKRS style replete with film snippets, heart-wrenching strings, boogie synths and dub ambience. If/when Dennis Bovell gets behind the controls for Brainfeeder, LoversDedicationStation will be the result. 

Lovers is a celebration of love, lovers rock and the UK by one of the most singular figures making dub today; standing on a sonic island, shouting down all dubwise preconceptions.

releases July 1, 2016 

Produced by SKRSINTL 
Feat. D!dlat on synthesizers 
Recorded at Aquaboogie Studios, Southeast Richmond 
Mastered by the Stunt Man at Suite Sound Labs, Vancouver 
Artwork and Design by Mystery Forms 


Seekersinternational - StillUgly!

Digi and tape available on Bandcamp:
https://bokehversions.bandcamp.com/album/all-over-there

Illbient oddities and lost relics for the Soundcloud generation. 

Recorded in 2006 and shelved until today - All Over There orbits the outer leftfield regions of known hip-hop galaxies. MC A’s double, triple, quadruple tracked vocals are thrown around the mic like a nippon Danny Brown riding Aquadab’s “Jan Jelinek meets Timbaland” productions (his words). 

Composed and resampled entirely on MPC 1000 and Kaoss pad - Aquadab claims most tracks were made in sub-2 hour improvised sessions. MC A’s vox exist to us only as texture and punctuation - we’re assured the lyrics are too abstract to translate (English titles have been provided for iTunes purposes). 

The results are as unique as the artists involved are generally unknown. Aquadab has scored a lone remix on Japanese imprint Aun Mute and MC A can be found on a few tracks by local hip-hop acts like DJ Motive. Aquadab lives in Osaka - home to Bokeh alumni DJ Ground and Kabamix. MC A hails from Gifu, widely known as the home of Japan’s master cormorant fishermen.
credits

Production by Aquadab 
Vocals & Lyrics by MC A 
Cover Drawing by MC A 
Design by Mysteryforms 
Bokeh Versions 2016 

Thanks: 浦田24,裕,渡,田中, Cut Mastaa Kato, ANKU, Takumi Hayashi, Hydro Brain, Tetsumasa, Karavi, Kevin, BC, HEZVIRUS, AUN MUTE, Cosmophoriphnic, Kawakami Kohei, Hi-Ray, and Dear Family and Friends.

Shadow

Crazy limited 7" dubplates - 30 copies worldwide.

The first wave of buyers have already been contacted.

Both tracks are taken from BKV012 Glacial Dancehall 2 (coming out on cassette real soon).

Low Jack - Look Out Riddim (Dubplate)

Time Cow - Yellow and Purple Equals Yurple (7" Dubplate Edit)

7" and digital available on Bandcamp
https://bokehversions.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-flash-water-vapour

BKV013 is 7 inches of infectious, Osaka-matured, aquatic dub from 7FO. 7FO-san has been in touch with Bokeh for over a year and kindly showed them round Kyoto on the BKV Japan world tour (we ate a baby squid that had a boiled egg where the brain used to be - crazy).

This is 7FO’s first proper wax outing after homegrown albums made local waves with his fusion of Japanese new age and dub miniatures. Previous albums also had mastering credits by Bokeh alumni and Osaka mixing desk alchemist Kabamix.

2016 saw 7FO reach wider audiences with Water Falls Into A Blank, a cassette and multi-media project via RVNG Intl’s Commend See series. Bandcamp user Standard Grey summed it up best:

“If Joe Meek lived on to collaborate with Harry Hosono and Inoyama Land and make idiosyncratic dubbed out Japanese Minyo and off-world colony exotica... “

‘Water Vapour’ features the enigmatic Sea Urchin - the duo of Francesco Cavaliere (on FX) and Leila Hasan (on otherworldly vocals). They’ve released an LP for Belgian imprint Kraak and Francesco notched a 2016 highlight with his solo LPs on Hundebiss.

This is the 4th Bokeh release to come out of Japan…..

7FO - Water Vapour (ft. Sea Urchin)

7FO - Quiet Flash

Mars89 - End Of The Death EP
12" and digital available on Bandcamp >> bit.ly/2oj8dSp

Finally @mars89 returns with his first proper vinyl release (after last year's brutal Lucid Dream cassette on Bokeh). Streetfighter meets Pulse X meets Gqom on 5 tracks from this ascendant Tokyo star. All wrapped in one of  Patrick Savile's most inspired sleeves.

1. End Of The Death
2. Run To Mall
3. Visitor From The Ocean
4. Random Coherence
5. Throbbing Pain

Mars89 is a crucial member of the Tokyo’s Chopstick Killahz, a self-described “Post Tribal DJ Unit” lurking on the fringes of the city’s grime scene. Mars89’s self released his debut EP East End Chaos in 2016 on a limited run of zines. He’s also recently composed music for Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo 2017A/W and started a residency at Bristol’s Noods Radio.

Listen to Lucid Dream here:
soundcloud.com/bokeh-versions/bkv-011-mars89-lucid-dream-ep

Mars89 - Run To Mall

Taken from BKV024 Sikka Rymes - Love Di People EP
Hear more + buy here: bit.ly/2NKPVWd

“Incarcerated deejay touts Sikka Rymes as next big thing in dancehall” say the Jamaica Star headlines; referencing Vybz Kartel and Sikka’s cousin Shawn Storm, all of Portmore’s Gaza Nation dancehall royalty………..

So then we have Love Di People EP: Sikka’s first solid gold release after strings of strictly Vevo hits (‘Life of the Party’, ‘Nuh Change’) lie between his previous hook up with producer Genesis Hull (on Duppy’s 2016 Fresh Clipp’d). Genesis’ prods are pure widescreeen sub-tension and speed - now of Mexico City, he carries Sikka’s flow into gleaming new future chrome jobs of the dancehall chassie, the madness of 00s dancehall returns for global review. In This Time Of Many Dancehall Think-pieces: Live Long And Grow Strong.

The weight of two year’s of Drive demos caused Miro Tape to spontaneously burst into the world on Bokeh last year, we told you it was just a mixtape - Love Di People is the first wax seal on the Bokeh x Duppy Gun relationship, and not the last one of 2019. Founded by Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras, Duppy Gun pairs under-cover West Coast producers with Jamaican vocalists like G Sudden, Early One & others from their island HQs in Portmore & Spanish Town.

Vox by Sikka Rymes 
Prods by Genesis Hull 
Guest Vox by John D 
Art by Duppy Gun 
Released by Bokeh Versions 2019

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Sikka Rymes - Shake Ya Body (Fission Riddim)

Buy LP and Digi on Bandcamp: bit.ly/2J5HvJG
Follow @tronic-sea-urchin

Tahtib is food for your mystical post-exotica musical landscape - hand drums played by computers fall with a squelch into the swamp, horses neigh at dub bassists, there’s water everywhere full of urchins and tarot cards and just when you think you need to breathe this record breathes for you. Tahtib’s future ambient glyphs are matched with the rapid-fire staccato "taks” of imaginary tahtib sticks (tahtib is an Upper Egyptian martial art which was enjoyed and practiced by Leila's grandfather Baba Aly). Leila Hassan sings seamlessly between Arabic and Italian (and possibly more) breathing pure soundart alchemy across Francesco Cavaliere’s library of sound effects and textures. 

You remember Sea Urchin? They added their signature aquatics to Osaka-native 7FO’s 7” for Bokeh back in 2017. The duo of Leila Hassan and Francesco Cavaliere debuted a totally unique expression of ‘library music as future music’ on a series of small run cassettes before their proper debut LP Yaqaza was released on legendary Belgian imprint Kraak (Pan American, Limpe Fuchs, Typhonian Highlife). This caught the ear of Bokeh designer svengali Patrick Savile, who adds his vision to the LP cover. Francesco has also released solo explorations on Hundebiss (Kelman Duran, Lil Ugly Mane) and Edições Cn (Dolphins Into The Future).

Sea Urchin - 'aynen BtetHadda 'fiba 'D

12" and digital available here: bit.ly/35cAGOh

And we used to be such a nice record label .... BKV 026 swells up from the Bristol swamp in the forms of post-human industrial duo Bad Tracking. Here they have assembled variously, one spacious black metal intro (with original screams), an industrial-pop earworm not unlike Depeche Mode imploding in a feedback tunnel, two itch-tek dancefloor riddims namecheking local venue bans and I just don’t know what to call ‘Wellspring’ really, the end of days? Well you had it coming anyway…..

Known in town for upsetting local MPs and lisencees with their live performances as ‘naked technology sex slaves’ [think cassette-induced self harm, total nudity, blood from ears], Bad Tracking are the most visceral thing we’ve seen in this new wave of Avon experimental - a breath of life into the longstanding tradition of industrial performance art (and an antidote to idle BR club culture). Lyrically touching on censorship and tech // sonically they use feedback as a punishing instrument of anguish and expression. Widower EP is truly chewed nail sonics, more human than all your noise records, genuinely more scary than your edgelord power electronics nonsense, more forward than all yer government funded experimental think-records.

You may remember Bad Tracking from their remix of 90s soundsystem legends Bush Chemists on Bokeh last year. It sounded like they played the original through 1,000 knackered tape decks and added one kick drum. It was total sacrilege and we loved it. Bad Tracking is Gordon Apps aka reputed jungle/drumfunk producer Relapse (who also moonlights as Avon Terror Corp’s Olivia Mutant John, buy his shit) and poet / VHS video artist Max Kelan (who has lent his visuals to MVs from Hodge, The Pop Group, OM Unit, Young Echo to name only 4). They’ve released on tRewdindForward family labels like Mechanical Reproductions and champions of bad taste and good music - Fuckpunk.

“Tell the widower, of the nanny state, to go and fuck himself…..”

Video single for 'Widower' - youtube.com/watch?v=Ao5dj1FNbr0  
credits
releases October 18, 2019

Bad Tracking are Gordon Apps and Max Kelan go buy their shit
rwdfwd.com?s=bad+tracking
burdenimprint.bandcamp.com

Artwork by Bad Tracking and BKV Industrial
Video directed and edited by Max Kelan
Artwork assembled @ Bokeh HQ
Live photo of BT by Simon Holliday
Made in Avon

Bad Tracking - Wellspring

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Coming 10th January 2020 
Stream / Pre-order on Bandcamp: bit.ly/2Z3cLOq
TNT Roots - Raw Dub Creator LP
Bokeh's selections from TNT Roots' CDr back catalogue, all on vinyl and digital for the first time. Produced 2005 - 2019, including rare af tracks from TNT's Earthquake and Yahweh Warriors aliases.
Kill us now, we dreaming.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. TNT Roots - Redemption 	
2. Earthquake - Powerful 
3. TNT Roots - Glorious Dub 	
4. TNT Roots - Righteous Vibration 	
5. TNT Roots - African Science (Mix 2)	
6. TNT Roots - Earthman 	
7. TNT Roots - Foundation (Mix 2) 	
8. Earthquake - Lord Of Hosts 	
9. TNT Roots - Iron Shirt 	
10. Yahweh Warriors - Guidance 	
11. TNT Roots - Yahweh The Redeemer

Earthquake - Powerful

Taken from Linha D'Água, out now on LP and digital:
https://bokehversions.bandcamp.com/album/linha-d-gua

A lucid dream meeting of synth waves, aquatic jazz spirits and drum-triggered electronics. ‘Linha D'Água’ translates as ‘water lines’, fitting for an album that traces boundaries between water and air through an echo chamber of dizzying oceanic layers and free flowing ideas.

Mauricio Takara and Carla Boregas are two towering figures of the Brazilian underground/experimental scene, where they provide the rhythm section for demented genre-bending trio Rakta. While that band is all ritual percussion and red-blooded passion, as a duo they’re a blue-water flowing counterpoint. From the drums, Takara fires melodies and, with the synthesizer, Carla sculpts the sound. The result is caught somewhere between abstract improvisation and propulsive rhythm. Each song’s an organic layering of manipulated synthesizers and acoustic sounds; teasing new rhythms from the drum kit via MIDI (and a near-telekinetic bond between Carla and Mauricio).

M. Takara & Carla Boregas - Rosa de Areia

Hear all of Bunout Boss EP on Bandcamp: bit.ly/33MFQAr

Duppy Gun and Bokeh presents the huge debut statement from Okeme Robinson aka Gaza G Sudden, the second staple artiste in Duppy’s global dancehall project. Rolling with Duppy since 2013’s ‘Girls Dem Need Me’ debuted him into the world, G Sudden’s youth fire comes of age after lighting up the Portmore scene at Reggae Yard, Stop the Crime on Violence tour and Chopdawg Sundays.

Production comes from Richmond, BC (Canada via Manila) crew Seekersinternational who clashed with Duppy on 2019’s I Jahbar and Friends

G Sudden - Skin Get Bun

Duppy Riddim excursion of all 4 mixes o Montegod Riddim (Smurphy Prod.)

Hear them all here:
https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/montegod-riddim

Mexico, Portmore, Jamaica, LA, Bristol: The Montegod Riddim pack is here! Featuring I Jahbar & RDL and the talent of two of Duppy Gun’s newest recruits: Prapastar and Any Voice. Nurtured by I Jahbar at his Chopdawg Sundays cookout / MC schooling, they bring in a new era of Duppy Gun talent rising from the ranks.

I Jahbar & RDL / Prapastar / Any Voice / Smurphy - Montegod Riddim Mix

Digital and 7" vinyl available here:
https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/streets

CDMX, Mexico, Portmore, Jamaica, LA, Bristol, UK: listen. Shining a light on Duppy rising voice RDL for his first solo offering (another smash combo with Smurphy on the buttons). RDL first surfaced on the Duppy radar on 'RichMiProud' from 2019's I Jahbar & Friends album and 'Bumper' (from 2020's Montegod Riddim pack). RDL strikes out on his own now with 3 bold minutes of bubbling auto-tuned heat coming off the lockdown Streets of Portmore; riding a pristine pop-ready riddim from Smurphy.

RDL - Streets [Smurphy Prod.]

Taken from the soundtrack to the New Dawn VR listening experience:
bokehtech.bandcamp.com/album/mars89-new-dawn
bokeh.tech/
by ZexyLab and Bokeh.tech

Out on March 11th on digi, poster and t shirt (by Patrick Savile)

Mars89 - Nocturnal Animals

Another anthem from G Sudden, taken from the Smurphy produced Summer Riddim Pack:
https://duppygun.bandcamp.com/album/summer-riddim
also featuring RDL and new talent King Kush
Live Long and Grow Strong

G Sudden - Dem Nuh Real [Smurphy Prod.]

Outopia Thru Sound // BKV Industrial + BKV Cadavre + Bokeh Thought Programme // Avon Terror Corps // I serve Duppy Gun // Pheasantry Life ⚔

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