Name: The Rammellzee - How's My Girlfriends? by Gamma Proforma [2000-2018]
Duration: 3 min 39 s
Description: This is the second track from Rammellzee's 'Cosmic Flush' album. Produced by Jonah Mociun, artwork by Futura. Available on limited edition vinyl at gammaproforma.com

Vereker – Slain

https://www.nts.live/shows/lukid/episodes/lukid-14th-march-2022

Lukid 140322

7. Between Spaces

Mix from PLUR at UFO Factory in Detroit, MI on 6.8.22

FUCK THE XONE MIXER

UFO FACTORY 6.8.22

Artist: Low End Activist
Title: Hostile Utopia
Label: Sneaker Social Club
Cat No: SNKRLP009
Release Date: 14th June

Casting a self-reflexive lens over his roots via the medium of crushing, future-rushing soundsystem sonics, Low End Activist returns to Sneaker Social Club with a full-length of monumental proportions.

When the Low End Activism 12” ignited on Sneaker in 2019, it paid tribute to the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford, UK, where LEA originates from. In the shadow of social inequality and strengthened by the unity of the multi-ethnic community, Blackbird Leys still imposes a powerful influence on LEA’s work, even as he’s stepped out onto Seagrave for last year’s Game Theory album and notched up the first couple of releases on his own self-titled label.

On this new album, Hostile Utopia sums up the conflicting emotions attached to memories of home – how it’s possible to feel nostalgic for the griminess of urban and suburban Britain, its ordinary tales of bitterness and frustration, but also its intrinsic passion and solidarity. At a time when social division is actively engineered by Machiavellian forces, real conviviality at street level feels like an impossible dream.

LEA communicates these tensions through a style which is becoming his signature – dynamic bass torsion and chiseled, fractalised rhythms slugging around the 130 mark. It’s moody like a UK-themed record ought to be, but it’s not morose. There’s fierceness in every snap and rumble, as the legacies of hardcore, jungle, dubstep and grime pour into the casing prior to the gunpowder lighting.

On previous LEA releases, the MC roll call has pointed to some of the most vital voices touching the mic in the present day. Flowdan, Sikka Rymes and Trim all had something different to impart over the riddims, and now Hostile Utopia expands on that with the most extensive show of lyrical strength yet. Mez lights up the woozy, abstract grime swerve of ‘Mercenary’ in a musical style. Emz brings a ruthlessly sharp verbal steez to ‘GetGet’, Killa P gets busy toasting over ‘DFRNT STYLE’ and ‘Superhighway’ carries the dexterous hip-hop flow of Cadence Weapon.

In between those standout tracks, LEA expresses just as much in the production. Tracks brimming with stories to impart, laden with symbols masquerading as samples and draped in aural garb that firmly places Hostile Utopia in a place, a mood, that could only belong to the UK. It’s a hybrid sound just like the society it sprang from, and therein lies its power.

Mastered by Beau Thomas
Collage by Clayton Burke
Design by DR.ME

Hostile Utopia

Recorded live at Moodring February 2023 for Rare Frequency Transmissions.

TASCAM DR-05

Dynoman at Rare Frequency Transmissions Feb 17 2023

This is the second track from Rammellzee's 'Cosmic Flush' album. Produced by Jonah Mociun, artwork by Futura. Available on limited edition vinyl at gammaproforma.com

The Rammellzee - How's My Girlfriends?

SKRSINTL meets MX7 inna DancehallShowdown!

☠️ When the only exit is a horse-drawn hearse; 
Face to face with Death, who will shoot first!?! ☠️

read all about it here!
http://seekersinternationalx.blogspot.ca/2016/11/skrsintl-meets-mx7-inna-dancehall.html

SKRSINTL meets MX7 inna DancehallShowdown

DancehallShowdownSideA

A1. Postdrome - Significant Other (WSR SO1)

The SYSTEM mix series strikes again, with a twisted dark n’ dirty dancehall selection from Judaah, honcho of one of France’s most groundbreaking club collectives @bfdmrec

BR System Mix Series

SYSTEM MIX 004: Judaah

"@ambixambix abre 2021 con @cndsd y sus interpolaciones exhuberantes para clasificadores insaciables y R2D2s contemplativos, atravesando el espacio latente del club cuarentenado con mantras en unicode y caderas sueltas.

AMBIX10 w/ CNDSD sonó en @internetpublicradio el segundo domingo del año."

Tracklist

Tame Dune - CNDSD
Diablas - CNDSD
Nod - {Arsonist}
New York Hounted - Calum Gunn
A Code- Kindohm
Yei/Yah - CNDSD
Radiolaria choir - Lisokot and Vikhornov
In to the ride - CNDSD
Seca - Lucrecia Dale
Self Defense - Arca
What holles you back - Renick Bell
Machine Gun - Portishead
Snake Hypnosis - CNDSD
Desechos Animados - A.k.Adrix
Seeds - Siete Catorce
Decan - CNDSD
Kebrada - El irreal veintiuno

AMBIX10 w/ CNDSD

Audio explorations from the Gamma Proforma vaults. 

2000 - 2018

The Rammellzee - How's My Girlfriends?

Gamma Proforma [2000-2018]

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