Made this over a year ago today, 140 dub techno wibes

Flutes From Butan [CLIP]

I was asked by the mighty Frenk Dublin at Dub Communication to put together a remix for this amazing EP. I picked Mystic Fyah's Travelling track, and this is what came out...

Juno Download: https://www.junodownload.com/products/mystic-fyah-dynamite-ep-remixes/5407541-02/

Mystic Fyah - Travelling (Stillhead Remix) [Dub Communication DUBCOM038D]

DUBCOM039D - @frenk-dublin - Deep Mining Chord Association. 10 track release out now on @dub-communication. 

Bandcamp: https://frenkdublin.bandcamp.com/album/deep-mining-chord-association
Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/frenk-dublin-deep-mining-chord-association/5648620-02/

Frenk Dublin - Intro (Original Mix)

Version galore with Papa Boom & Tin Tin from Play Some Records.

bassComeSaveMe

BASSCAST #23 by Play Some Records

Mystic Fyah ft Natty Dread - Fool A Dis

Limited 7” vinyl – 800 copies for the world – hand screen printed – No repress – No digital

Released: end of May, 2015

ZamZam presents two fresh cuts of Bristol dubwise from King Rob Smith Dubs AKA RSD.  Rob has been ruling the world of dubwise dance music for two decades, helping to define the Bristol sound as More Rockers and Blue & Red, and as part of seminal UK dub/jungle/soul crew Smith & Mighty. His second outing for ZamZam, this 7” follows a string of massive releases the last few years, most recently on Moonshine and Astar Artes.

With “World Hungry” and “Dub Pride” we hear RSD at the height of his powers, intuitively constructing sound system music that pulls in influences from the history of UK reggae, dub, jungle, and that unmistakable Bristol vibe that keeps the people coming back for more.  The sound is perpetual deja-vu, like a parallel-universe dance that is at once 90’s, 00’s, now, and next.  Rob deploys his signature warm & massive bass sound with sophisticated, syncopated drum programming, strings, sweeps, samples and melodic elements that capture the past, present and future of Bristol with a wink and a nod.  Listening to these tunes we hear the deft touch of a master with nothing to prove, displaying playfulness, joy, and total confidence.

"World Hungry" forwards a brooding vibe combining a steppers kick pulse with syncopated snares, dueling basstones and rich strings.  "Dub Pride” is a summery shock of rocking, stuttering breaks, melodic figures that appear only to vanish, and vocal samples that will spread love and inity and get bodies off the wall and onto the floor as the warm weather settles in across the land.

RSD "World Hungry" b/w "Dub Pride" ZamZam 26 7" vinyl blend rip

Taken from Various ‎– Steppin' Forward Pt 1, 3 x 12" LP.

https://hardwax.com/70601/various-artists/steppin-forward-pt-1/

Hatti Vatti ft. Cian Finn - Education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVlOqFKes3Q&feature=youtu.be

Luss - Halftime Session (video link in description)

Khaliphonic 11 is a truly epic release from one of our most prolific artists, Brendon Moeller AKA Echologist, AKA Beat Pharmacy.  In just the last two years, Moeller has released on labels as varied as Echocord, Silent Season, Kynant, and Rohs!, to name only the most well-known.  Recognized globally for a singularly organic and dubwise approach to techno, we are proud to have a close working relationship with an artist who coaxes humanity and warmth from machines like few others.  The Dub Purpose EP is one of his finest achievements.  

As we planned a third ZamZam release from our favorite well of hardware sonics, four tracks emerged as comprising a set that simply did not want to be separated.  The four tunes that make up this EP felt like chapters in a single gorgeous narrative, and so a 12” was born.  

We asked Brendon how dub influences his process, and what this EP specifically is about.  He replied: 

"Dub facilitates whatever vision I have with music, which is one of the reasons I incorporate a dub approach in everything I do. Whether infusing Nyabinghi rhythms with epic strings, roots dub with industrial dread or grungy modular antics with stepping vibes, dub is the glue that keeps it together. The inspiration behind these tracks are On-U Sound, Wordsound and Bill Laswell, travelers who understood the possibilities of dub."

The Dub Purpose EP does in four tunes what many LPs struggle to do in eight - it builds a cohesive narrative arc that moves from menace, to exploration, through mystery, closing with beauty.   And just wait til you hear it on a proper Sound… 

Mastered by Sam Precise. Released March 15, 2019. Limited to 500 12" vinyl copies for the world. Design 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!

Beat Pharmacy "Dub Purpose" Khaliphonic 11 12" EP vinyl sampler

Soukah & Another Channel - Weakheart

FourFourSelect Recordings
Vinyl out February 7th 2020

Hatti Vatti ft. Cian Finn - Education

Hatti Vatti

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