Bokeh 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).

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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]

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