Bokeh 2021

AXONE DUB PLATE KINGS 2.0

Don Letts Approved - part 3

SYSTEM takes a detour to Minnesota to link with Twin Cities-based record label, visual artists and soundsystem operators Feel Free Hifi @digitalstingrecords for a heavily dubbed-out mix that showcases exactly the kind of twisted sublow dancehall and steppers pressure that makes their label such an exciting prospect. 

Featuring strictly self-produced material and collaborations with the likes of Duppy Gu, Jjahbar, Equiknoxx Music, Tokeeno, Kinggeineous Hilla bundem, Manictimes etc...

SYSTEM Mix 049: FEEL FREE HIFI

Exclusive & special mixtape from Alpha Steppa's studio before the Dub Station festival in Vitrolles (13). Enjoy & play it loud.

Mix : Ben Alpha Steppa
Photo : Thomas Planchais (Paris Dub Station #58).

Alpha Steppa special mixtape for Musical Echoes before Dub Station festival 2021

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).

Hear More / Buy Now

RDL Shellah - Touch Road

Kush Arora recontextualises Robin Sukhadia's insistent tabla into an insistent, overdriven kuduro mutation.

'Only Now Presents: Indian Unclassical Volume 1' is out October 25th on Bokeh Versions.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2Z4ZpFw

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Only Now Presents: Indian Unclassical Vol. 1

Premiere: Only Now - Cavern Trance (feat. Robin Sukhadia) [Bokeh Versions]

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).

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VOM - The Zone

Sensuous, apocalyptic and forward-facing, experimental vocalist Grove refracts Jamaican and Bristolian traditions through a queer lens.

'SPICE' is out now on Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights.

Buy: bit.ly/3D7a94q

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SPICE

Premiere: Grove - Soft Cheeks [Bokeh Versions/Spinny Nights]

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]

Fab 5 Freddy - Down By Law

RMX Vie Sur Zira - Worlds Inside coming 2015 (premix)

Vie sur Zira

Vie Sur Zira - Worlds Inside (digital version) STEMS ON FREE DL

Mecca And The Soul Brother

They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)

The Best of Desmond Dekker

007 (Shanty Town)

The Slowdown: Epilogue

Lesson 51 (A Tailchaser's Waltz) (Route 24 Remix)

Dub To Africa

From Langley Park to Memphis

Knock On Wood

LUV 4 DEM GANGSTAZ

Dirty Projectors - Overlord
Out now on Domino Record Co.

Stream & save "Overlord": http://smarturl.it/OverlordStrm

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Lyrics:
oh fear is old
please don’t yell at the train, just get aboard

oh we go forth
those who stay behind will be left on the shore

who could afford
not to be a part of what we’re pushing toward

over over over overlord,
over over over overlord

oh overlord
please don’t be magnanimous, protect your neck

oh overlord
marshal my desires to your call and beck

oh overlord
good outweighs bad as we approach perfection

over over over overlord,
over over over overlord

how can you try to help me?
how can you try not to help me?
help me, help me,
help me, help me!

oh overlord
take the ones below me and i’ll hold the sword

oh overlord
who could serve a master who sits over lord?

over over over overlord,
over over over overlord
over over over overlord,
over over over overlord

Overlord

Watch Video

A Day in a Yellow Beat

Let's be Good to Each Other

Yours. To Be

I bought a house in the South
For my family and friends
It has a garden as big as Jamaica
We can put up some tents
Invite the friends of our friends
Declare our own independent state
Free of fear
Free of hate

Come to Pala
Take the shoes off your feet
Come to Pala
Come to Pala
Where the grapes are sweet
Come to Pala

No nine-to-five, more life
Basic income for all
It is a real version of Utopia
We speak with plants and trees
The teach us lessons of peace
We travel places deep inside
Free of fear
Free of hate

Come to Pala
Take the shoes off your feet
Come to Pala
Come to Pala
Where the grapes are sweet
Come to Pala

Come to Pala
Take the shoes off your feet
Come to Pala
Come to Pala
Where the grapes are sweet
Come to Pala

Come to Pala
Take the shoes off your feet
Come to Pala
Come to Pala
Where the grapes are sweet
Come to Pala

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Pala

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 ⚔