Bokeh 2021

Dread-laden reverie meets chilling VR experience as Mars89 and Bokeh Versions collaborate with Spain's ZeYX Lab.

'New Dawn' is out March 11th on Bokeh Versions.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2Oj65dY

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@bokeh-versions

Mars89 - New Dawn

Premire: Mars89 - New Dawn [Bokeh Versions]

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

Tape-only megamix of Roolings Muzik Allstars by DJ Velkro:

rollingmuzik.bandcamp.com/album/roolings-muzik-allstars-2

If you don’t know about Roolings Muzik then now you do kid. I Jahbar’s main creative outlet since he started having musical dreams aged 15, Roolings is a home for a fresh stable of Jamaican vocalists scouted and often mentored by I Jah including G Sudden, Buddy Don and RDL Shellah who joined him in his later work with Duppy Gun.

Roolings Muzik Allstars - DJ Velkro Megamix

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

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).

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

@theyisgrove
@bokeh-versions
@spinnynights

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]

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 ⚔