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The preview for DSR 7009 7" Vinyl.

A Side - Shanai & Dahifi - Hornsound
B Side - Digid & Dubbing Sun remix

Tracks produced by @shanaiendahifi, @Digid & Dubbing Sun
Artwork by Lea Bebek & Gerhard Pernull
350 copies for the world, availiable to Purchase soon

DSR7009 Vinyl Preview - Shanai & Dahifi - Hornsound + Digid & Dubbing Sun remix

Artist: Adam Prescott
Title: Technique EP
Label: Liondub International
Catalog #: LNDB-020
Format: Digital / Vinyl 12"
Release Date: April 15th, 2014
File Under: Dubstep / Reggae / Dub

Liondub proudly presents the debut release from Reggae Roast badman Adam Prescott. The Technique vinyl release features 4 tracks of heavyweight Reggae infused Dubstep pressure with a modern feel yet a classic, timeless sound. Expect deep, dubby passages inspired by Tubbys and Scientist with classic Japanese samplings coupled with in your face, modern drum hits and gut wrenching sub bass. This one is one for the history books and will surely garner support from fans and supporters of the original dubstep pioneers who created the genre.

An exciting upcoming producer in the UK digital roots scene, Nottingham’s Adam Prescott has been burning since 2010 with original songs featuring renowned vocalists such as Daddy Freddy, Brother Culture, Dynamite MC, Charlie P & Tippa Irie. His tunes have been played and remixed by Scottish reggae champions Mungo’s Hi-fi, and to-date he has two original solo releases on plate on the Reggae Roast and Nice Up! labels that have garnered heavy radio and club support from A-listers including David Rodigan. Prescott’s debut on Liondub International, Technique, is a full six-track solo EP full of heavyweight rhythms and styles to spare. The title tune leads off and skanks out of the iron gates with hard drops, announcing its confidence in the sample that lends it its title. ‘The Eight Devils’ goes in heavier and more uptempo with broken rhythms, ominous stabs and droning synthesizers. Bringing in the old-school Far Eastern flavor, ‘A State of Mind’ equally references classic dubstep vibes and the foundation sound of Augustus Pablo. With its minor mode and heavy bass weight, ‘Pressure’ fulfills its promise of going into a different session and turns the second side of the EP back towards darker territory during ‘Moving in the Shadows’. It finishes with ‘Sentinel’, featuring a production cameo from new talent Phasix and ending things on a very futuristic reggae tip with implied techno touches. Weighing in with six hotter burners, Adam Prescott’s ‘Technique’ is sure to increase pressure on the floor for the Liondub International massive.

Distributed Worldwide by ST Holdings Ltd. Unit 2 Old Forge Road, Ferndown Industrial Estate, Wimborne, Dorset. BH21 7RR. England.by ST Holdings


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Thirteen years have passed since the Roots Injection label released on 7-inch “Learning Rastafari”, written and performed by Sista Lexxy with Ras Muffet's riddim. Meanwhile, a dubplate of the tune with a completely different riddim has been making waves on sound systems around the world. Distinctive bassline, oldschool programmed drums and digital brass section typical of the '90s British dub, added a great accompaniment to Lexxy's voice. With its mellow melody, this tune played on a proper sound system, sounded surprisingly heavy. When asked about the dubplate, Lexxy maintains that this is the original version of the tune which originates from an unfinished album she was recording with Jerry Lions in his Lionz Den studio in South London. 

Now, a decade later, the "original" version of “Learning Rastafari” will be available to the public in classic 7-inch format. The newly mixed riddim, bass guitar and piano tracks refreshed by Jerry Lionz and mastered by Shane in the renowned Finyl Tweek studio will be released on 11 December 2017 as a collaboration between Pandadread Soundsystem, Lionz Den and Tribe84 Records.



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Side A Sista Lexxy - Learning Rastafari
Side B Jerry Lionz -Learning Dub

7" single - 45RPM
Produced by Jerry Lionz @ Lionz Den - London, UK
Mastered & Cut by Shane @ Finyl Tweek
Label: Pandadread
Distributed by Tribe 84 Records
Release date: 11.12.2017

SISTA LEXXY -LEARNING RASTAFARI / JERRY LIONZ - LEARNING DUB |PANDA01|

B-Side: DUBCOM002V - @frenk-dublin - Militant Dub (@Digid Remix). Out now on 7" vinyl on @Dub-communication.
Vinyl: https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/94018-dubcom002v-frenk-dublin-militant-dub-[incl--digid-remix]
Digital: https://www.junodownload.com/products/militant-dub/3789793-02/
Support:
https://facebook.com/FrenkDublin
https://facebook.com/Digidmusic
https://facebook.com/DubCommunication

Frenk Dublin - Militant Dub (Digid Remix)

After years of releases by Alpha & Omega, and most recently Dub Dynasty, ZamZam is proud to offer our first release from Ben Alpha AKA Alpha Steppa, completing the triad from this family steeped in UK roots and dub.  As the operator and visionary behind Steppas Records, Alpha Steppa links the history of traditional sound system music to the present of contemporary bass music styles, always with a focus on mindfulness, building community, and higher consciousness through music. 

“Liberation” is a breakbeat-fueled dubwise masterclass, a different version of which has only been heard digitally until now.  A massive bass undertow drives the tune, while a plucked melody and a swarm of percussion cascades, rocks, and interlocks effortlessly around the root riddim.  A digital-only extra to Alpha Steppa’s last album, we agreed wholeheartedly with Ben that “Liberation” very much deserved to be on vinyl, so he supplied us with several unreleased dubplate mixes to choose from.  All of them were strong, this one having perhaps the greatest contrast to the digital version.  

Ben’s esoterism and sense of humor shine through in the story of the track’s origin: "I started the track with the idea to make a bassline from a chicken cluck, and it worked! I created a synth from a chicken and also added in the skank. Then added the dog panting for momentum, recorded on Dartmoor during a walk.” 

“Pray” is a 140 tune that will find home in meditative dubstep sets, yet sidesteps genre trappings with a deeply spiritual message and a sound that is somehow both dirge-like and uplifting.  “Pray” feels like an ancient initiation into a transcendent realm of bass music only glimpsed or hinted at before.  About this one we will say no more, who feels it knows it.     

Mastered by Sam at Precise.  Released early May, 2018. Limited to 700 7" vinyl copies for the world. Design & screen print by Polygon Press.  No repress, no digital. 

Contact zamzamsounds@gmail.com for any information, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to be kept in the loop!

Alpha Steppa "Liberation" b/w "Pray" ZamZam 63 vinyl rip blend

Paul Dickow AKA Strategy is a musical polymath with a signature sound derived from his immersion in hardware-based electronic music.  He has spent close to two decades traveling freely through house, techno, rave, noise, ambient, and sounds more difficult to categorize.  Strategy’s sound is inimitable because it is literally built by hand - his hands.  Through all of this sonic journeying, including multiple full length releases, a constant has been his love of reggae and dub, yet somehow a proper dub album has never emerged - until now.  

After two much-loved 7” singles on ZamZam - to say nothing of dubwise excursions on Idle Hands, Shockout, Peak Oil, 100% Silk and more - “Dub Mind Paradigm” is the fulfillment of a clear, simple goal.  "I set out to make a full set of dub tracks good enough to make an album -- something that had always eluded me-- and it worked, finally. A simple exercise in seeing if we could launch the capsule to orbit Planet Reggae and make it home again.”  

Reaching Planet Reggae, the album explores analog caverns of dubwise at all tempos, from the 80s to 140, full of the ghosts of ancient and future technologies, glimmering shards of hope among heaps of folly, ruin and rubble.  Music fans with crates deeper than the contemporary will find shades of Wackies, Firehouse, Unity Sound, Burial Mix and more, but only winks and nods… no one sounds like Strategy, and Strategy sounds like no one.  

Worldwide release 22 June 2018.  Mastered by Sam Precise.  Art & design by Polygon Press.  Distributed by Unearthed Sounds UK.  Limited to 700 vinyl LPs - no repress, no digital.

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We at ZamZam have long been fans of Schlachthofbronx’s genre-smashing club tracks that harness and hybridize bass music styles from Germany, UK, Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil, and beyond.  But when we heard the dark dub of last year’s “Blurred Vision” we knew we had to reach out.  Little did we know the duo was already into ZamZam, paving the way to an eagerly anticipated release championed on dubplate by selectors from The Bug to O.B.F. to Toddla T.  

The Munich pair's ZamZam pushes a sound that's intutive and familiar, yet unlike anything else out there. Schlachthofbronx have carved out an absolutely unique and steely-eyed take on punishing dubwise informed not only by post-punk, house, electro, industrial, and traditional dub reggae principles, but by the legendary 60,000 watt Elemental Wave rig they host their Blurred Vision night on.  Imagine an alternative musical universe where PIL, Mad Professor, and Basic Channel hole up in the Batcave for a pitch-black sound system rave and you’re getting the picture. 

“Dun Dem”’s ring-modulating lead works its way into unsuspecting ears while the projectile kick drum calls in an extended intro that builds into one of the most satisfying drops we’ve ever heard in a steppers tune.  A blackened bassline of pure dub fire drives galloping clave and 4/4 sleigh bells deeper and deeper into a flooded cavern of reverb and dark delights.

“Soundbad” is more maximal minimalism, wringing super-saturated color from deceptively simple elements, marrying a massive dub bassline to smeared white noise snares and rockers hi hats, twisting and rebounding lasers and warped FX into claustrophobic reverb traps. 

Both tunes were tested, worked, & reworked through Schlachthofbronx’ non-stop global touring schedule. Results in the dance speak for themselves - we think you’ll have trouble knowing which side to reach for first.  Do you want a sound system missile, or a sound system bomb??  

Mastered by Sam at Precise

Released 27 JULY, 2018. Limited to 800 7" vinyl copies for the world. Design & screen print by Polygon Press.  No repress, no digital. 

Contact zamzamsounds@gmail.com for any information, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to be kept in the loop!

Schlachthofbronx "Dun Dem" / "Soundbad" ZamZam 64 vinyl rip blend

Deadbeat graced ZamZam with a release in our very first year of operation.  Lending his name & gravitas to our young effort with Zam 06 meant a lot to us at the time, and is something we never forgot, so we couldn’t be happier to have him back for a second outing.  Canadian by birth, now residing in Berlin, Scott Monteith is known the world over as one of the most adventurous and reliable producers in the areas of techno and dub-inflected electronic music. Extremely tight quality control over multiple full length albums and countless singles on seminal labels including ~scape, Echochord, and his own flawless BLKRTZ have made him a household name in dub techno and beyond. 

Deadbeat’s second ZamZam sets aside obvious techno constraints for a mid-tempo reggae scorcher that sounds like it was beamed straight from the humid & heady glory days of the Black Ark studio.  Anchored by a tar-thick bassline recalling Lee Perry’s “Dub Organizer,” “Wail Ball and Cry” leans hard into its rockstone drum kit,  with whip-sharp turnarounds, clattering Binghi drums, melodica stabs and restrained yet ever-present flange and reverb keeping the atmosphere swampy and sparkling.  A sweet falsetto intones on the loneliness and alienation we all navigate in these times of political debasement and (social) media spectacle.

“Dub Ball and Flange” mutes the vocal for a traditional version focused on nuance rather than over-the-top effects; high hats take the spotlight through expert filter & phaser work, as the heat inches up in the room with a stew of bubbling reverb & delicate echo trails adding to the already simmering & shimmering vibe.

Mastered by Sam at Precise

Released 27 JULY, 2018. Limited to 700 7" vinyl copies for the world. Design & screen print by Polygon Press. No repress, no digital.

Contact zamzamsounds@gmail.com for any information, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to be kept in the loop!

Deadbeat "Wail Ball & Cry" / "Dub Ball & Flange" ZamZam 65 vinyl rip blend

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