Bokeh 2020

>>> Bokeh's Mutual Aid Programme is now open. <<<

100% OF ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECT TO THE ARTISTS
To either support them or to donate to aid programmes in their local community. We think ** £5 suggested donation ** is fair - the release is pay-what-you-feel as a gesture to you, the listener, who makes these things possible.

Mutual Aid 2020 was assembled by the Bokeh Allstars during the first 3 weeks of the Great Lockdown, March / April 2020. Many tracks are from Bokeh releases that fell through the net - we can always rebuild from what we have.

101% The Very Best of Outopian Sounds

Mutual Aid 2020

Principles Unknown

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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.
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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

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Earthquake - Powerful

Titre extrait de l'album Raw Dub Creator de TNT Roots sorti en janvier 2020 sur le label Bokeh Versions (Bristol).

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TNT Roots : "Earthman" (LP Raw Dub Creator)

A local Bokeh Allstars takeover of a classic track from Bokeh lore (the original Jay Glass anthem).

Taken from the forthcoming Bokeh Allstars VA Mutal Aid Compilation, out this week. 

101% The Very Best of Outopian Sounds

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Jay Glass Dubs - Compound Dub (Kinlaw Remix ft. Dali De Saint Paul, Franco Franco & DJ Saisho)

Full Bloom [Mutual Aid 2020 by Bokeh Allstars]

>>> bokehversions.bandcamp.com/album/mutual-aid-2020 <<<

"Mutual Aid 2020 is the first ever Bokeh compilation, with 100% of all proceeds going direct to artists - for themselves or for distribution in their local community. 17 tracks breathe in the whole history of what we would never ourselves call 'the Bokeh sound'. From sci-fi digi to dancehall sampling shoegaze chuggers, B-movie horror drill, industrial spoken word, euphoric steppas, surf-indebted metallic roots, acid goths remixing gqom. This is all we've ever been about."

Buy at Bandcamp

Low Jack - Reaction (Bokeh Allstars - Mutual Aid 2020)

Out now on 12" and digital: bit.ly/37sEcpc

Sludge machine music slapped through the infinite mixing desk by SRS - the combined mind of Sunun and Robin Stewart. At any point Data Fossil’s giddy industrial riddims could collapse under their own weight. There are Sunun inputs and there are Robin Stewart inputs - but everything is offered up to their machines gladly for an output of nu-human-beat. Voices drift through the mix in hushed Italian and Robin’s gruff roboticized drawl, floating dub chords left hanging for cavernous subs and rattled bones, distant harps and arps, a sudden blast of trills. ‘Spit Fossil’ itself is a clipped noise-pop wonder - the aural equivalent of a lights-on Avon dancefloor with only the weirdest left standing.

SRS - Spit Fossil Dub

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

Smurphy deconstructs rave tropes with a speed-freak mutation of dancehall and footwork.

'Spheres of Consciousness' is out October 29th on Bokeh Versions.

Pre-order: bit.ly/3kl0pez

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Esferas de Conciencia

Premiere: Smurphy - Instinct [Bokeh Versions]

CDMX Queen Smurphy releases her new Bokeh Versions EP "Spheres of Consciousness," flexing 5 ardkore x juke inspired helium neck-snappers transporting you to a higher states.The Spheres of Consciousness EP represents a rising up, an embracing of life. 
We’re lucky to be hearing from the NAAFI / Leaving Records affiliated, CDMX-based producer at all. She’d all but shelved music to focus on her health; suffering loss of mobility and chronic pain from a spinal birth defect (Spina Bifida Occulta). Until Smurphy came across breatharian literature about ‘living without food’.
There’s a deep link with rave’s central DNA - the dancefloor promise of reaching that higher state - and her ongoing health conditions. These five dancefloor destroyers are wordlessly encoded with the breatharian theory. Life goes though different levels of existence like a videogame, from the lowest level as hard minerals (‘Existence’), plant and fungi life resonates as ‘Growth’, animal life resonates as ‘Instinct’, human life runs on ‘Intellect’, the boss level is ‘Intuition’ - the highest non-material sphere. 
Clearly Smurphy is back, healthier than ever, and in control with collaborative dancehall productions with Duppy Gun artists coming in 2021, with more music and collabs to be announced.
Out October 30th. Follow the Buy link to purchase.

[PREMIERE] Smurphy- Intellect (Bokeh Versions)

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

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