Double A side!!!
A: Cornerstone Featuring Fikir Amlak
AA: One Life Featuring Rider Shafique
B: Cornerstone Riddim



UK lyricist and poet Rider Shafique and American-Caribbean singer-songwriter Fikir Amlak deliver two vocal flips on Iron Gate Sound’s Cornerstone riddim.
On “One Life”, Rider Shafique provides a stripped back take in his trademark dub poetry style that invites the listener to take in the final details of the track. The storyteller-in-chief’s voice is as fluid as ever. Lyrically, he’s crafted something very powerful – introspective and honest.
Fikir Amlak, who continues to deliver soulful and conscious messages out of Southern California, proves that he is a force to be reckoned with. On “Cornerstone”, Fikir Amlak delivers a shamanic chant that harnesses the conscious message of the great diaspora and African music innovators. This powerful songwriter maintains the essence of Jamaican roots music, while pushing the envelope in multiple new directions.
As the world continues to deal with the everyday reality that we find surrounding us in 2021, Cornerstone offers up a moment of reflective modern bass music that is a welcome escape.

EP Artwork - Tom Malek @tjmalek
Graphic Design - Nick Stone @nick___stone
Mastering - Ben Feggans @ 301 Sydney

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Cornerstone EP

Double A side!!!
A: Cornerstone Featuring Fikir Amlak
AA: One Life Featuring Rider Shafique
B: Cornerstone Riddim

03 Iron Gate Sound - Cornerstone Riddim

02 Iron Gate Sound - One Life feat. Rider Shafique

01 Iron Gate Sound - Cornerstone feat. Fikir Amlak

A progressive bass culture collective out of Australia, Iron Gate Sound has been a mainstay of Sydney’s reggae-dancehall scene since 2012. The brainchild of Flip and Gilsun, the collective has dropped a steady stream of mixtapes and independently released music under its Iron Gate Records label which they founded in 2014.
 
Working with dub, reggae, dancehall and grime artists from Jamaica and Europe, Iron Gate Records has always maintained a connection to roots even as it has sought to develop, reinterpret and innovate new sounds.
 
In 2014, Flip and Gilsun worked with some of Jamaica’s finest vocalists, including Sizzla and Lutan Fyah on Lion Inna Den Riddim and collaborated with Addis Pablo and Suns of Dub on the Jah Jah Solve Dem EP.
 
Between 2015 and 2018, Iron Gate Sound released a steady stream of mixtapes including Dubplate Mashdown and Dubs Fi Di Road – the first 100% dubplate mix out of Australia.
 
In 2019 Sydney-based music producer Kid Fiction joined Iron Gate Sound, bringing his unique texture-focused electronic music production to the collective. Iron Gate Sound has recently delivered a burst of releases featuring appearances by Manga Saint Hilare, Shanique Marie, Chiedu Oraka, RTKAL, Fikir Amlak and Jamaican dub poet Michael St. George.