A recording of our party at Amsterdam Dance Event on Sunday, October 17 at Feed, Amsterdam with Coco Maria and Palo Santo Discos. Four hours of carefully curated sounds from around the world.

Find out more: 
https://www.waxpoetics.com/article/coco-maria

Amsterdam Dance Event: Coco Maria & Palo Santo Discos

Seekersinternational blend original dubs with essential snippets of dancehall, pop, reggae, hardcore, dub, disco, house and Skepta’s ‘That’s Not Me’. More than just a mix, this feels like an archaeological dig.

More info and tracklist:  http://www.factmag.com/2017/02/06/seekersinternational-fact-mix-587/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 587 - Seekersinternational (February '17)

http://jahtari.org/releases/waqwaq-kingdom-shinsekai/
Next level sounds coming from the Science Ninja Team WaqWaq Kingdom, re-charting dub territory as we know it with their highly addictive post-tribal epic Shinsekai (“New World”).

Driven by the trimba (a percussion instrument developed and mastered by Moondog) of Andrea Belfi  (Nils Frahm, Nonkeen, Mike Watt) ––  the ethereal voice of Kiki Hitomi (King Midas, Black Chow) is twisting through a fog of swirling arpeggiators and polyrhythmic textures, all brought together beautifully by bass- and mayhem expert Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg, Seefeel).

‘Shinsekai’ develops its very own language as each of the hypnotic tracks meanders through different stages of deepness and tension, evolving into the bigger picture of an album with a dazzling amount of intrinsic details.

Stunning artwork by Simon Fowler (Sunn O))), The Bug and many more), done in Hanga / relief printing style. Guest vocals on “Step Into The World” by Kathy Alberici. Mastered and cut for extra heaviness by Pole / Scapemastering Berlin.

WaqWaq Kingdom are supporting Gonjasufi on 18th April in Leipzig and 9th / 10th May in London.

Shinsekai

WaqWaq Kingdom - WaqWaq Dream

Here's a new piece of rub-a-dub me and my mate Art made the other day. Art pon guitar and bass, me playing drums and synths. Mixed this one in Tijuana at Bocina Blasting Studios...

Giddi Riddim

Music-making devices fed into computer software with the copypasta slathered on top, but with surprisingly little actual editing of the recording session itself.

DoS In Dub

Existential Dread In Dub

Recorded in Lisbon, Winter 2017. I present the first volume of Synthesizer Ditties inspired by a bygone age of witches and wizards, knights and dragons, enchanted swords, haunted graves, sacred forests and regal kingdoms. Recorded almost entirely on a Korg Monologue + spring reverb / LN76 (TR-08 on some ditties also). I've not made the other volumes yet, but when i do, maybe i'll put it out as some sort of expensive compendium or do a limited dubplate run or something else annoying like that? Get in touch if your into it: Huzzah!

Medieval Ditties Vol. 1.

In Hour 1 as part of our 30th anniversary week, we welcome Kevin Martin aka The Bug, who first appeared on Solid Steel in 1998 as part of ICE and you can hear this archive mix at SolidSteel.net . He told us;
"Having been a dub nerd for so many years, my opinion of post ’Sleng Teng’ cyber-reggae was foolishly blinkered in the mid 90’s, but when i heard the ‘Streetsweeper Riddim’ by Steely & Clevie  = game over… My opinion of Bashment/Ragga/Dancehall was immediately reversed upon contact with that one sick riddim series, as Burro Banton fiercely chanted “Boom Wha Dis” mercilessly, or Capleton caught fire on ‘Final Assassin’..
At that time, as a resident of North West London, resistance was futile, and i was fully hooked on trips to Dub Vendor or various hole in the wall black wax emporiums in the Harlesden area, as i became uncontrollably addicted to buying waves of 7” riddims that were dropping relentlessly from Jamaica.
This mix is my tip of the hat to the incredible producers that emerged from Ja’s Dancehall scene…Ppl like Dave Kelly, Steely & Clevie, Lenky etc were sonic futurists to me, and their alien arrangements  indelibly marked my ears and my own style of production, and still to this day…Their bionic bogle fuel, some of which is included here, sounds as fresh to me now as it did upon release….
But also, it’s been my aim for years, since naming myself The Bug and devoting myself to sound system culture, to try and develop my own mutant dancehall vocabulary. A quest, that begun with my Razor X label and album ‘Pressure’, via my ACID RAGGA releases, and still shows no sign of halting, as i chase the holy grail of constructing a new style of raggamuffin Sci-Fi. Ive included prototypes and demos of what will form future Bug releases here, as a sketchbook for listeners and myself, and a clear sign of intent, and to show how much i still worship Jamaica’s incredible musical innovations.
I wanted this tribute to Jamaica’s electronic legacy, to reflect a past, present and future of bashment mutations. And right now, with so many great producers like Equiknoxx, Epic B, Stereotyp, Mr. Mitch, Low Jack, Errorsmith, Still  etc etc all fighting the fight for future shock dancehall, it seemed the right time to put together a mix like this one…And as i used to regularly tune into Coldcut’s tripped out SOLID STEEL radio transmissions many many moons ago, its a pleasure to deliver my first mix for Solid Steel since the mixes me and JK Flesh delivered as ICE in the late nineties. Solid Steel has always encouraged freedom of movement and surprises in their choices, and i wanted to ensure i did something special to celebrate the diversity of the show down the years"

Hour 1 - THE BUG 
Dave Kelly - 85 Riddim
Shams - Grass Cyaat Riddim
The Bug -  Tears of a Droid - unreleased
The Bug - Daggering riddim - unrlsd
The Bug - Untitled 1 - unrlsd
The Bug - Rollercoaster Riddim
Goldfinga - Stress
Stereotyp - Radiation riddim - unrlsd
Bobby Digital/John John - Mad Dog Riddim
Sly Dunbar/Christopher Birch - Corners boy riddim
The Bug - Untitled 2 - unrlsd
Colin, Bulby & Fatta - Clothes Pin Riddim
Dave Kelly - Mad Up Riddim
Equiknoxx -  Fly Away Dub
The Bug - Untitled 3’ - unrlsd
Tony ‘CD” Kelly - Unda Wata Riddim
The Bug - Trash It riddim
Mr. Mitch - Not Modular - unrlsd
The Bug - Freak Freak
The Bug - Untitled 4 - unrlsd
The Bug - Demon riddim - unrlsd
The Bug - Aktion Riddim
The Bug - Untitled 5 - unrlsd
 Ricardo "Bibi" Gardner - Atomic Bomb Riddim
Unknown - Surgery Riddim
The Bug - Untitled 6 - unrlsd
Slam_Productions - Jigga
Steely & Clevie - Skettel Riddim
Steely & Clevie - Dirty_money riddim
Epic B - How Riddim - unrlsd
The Bug - Sugar riddim
The Bug - Untitled 7 - unreleased
Equiknoxx - Flagged Up (Mark Ernestus Remix) 
The Bug - Invader Riddim - unrlsd
David Eccleston - Ride Pon Riddim Version
The Bug - 1 Dog Shot Riddim
The Bug - Big Riddim
The Bug - Politicians Riddim
The Bug - Untitled 8 - unrlsd
The Bug - Replicant Sex - unrlsd

Solid Steel Radio Show

Solid Steel Radio Show 04/12/2018 Hour 1 - The Bug

Extended arrangement of loops made for Dougherty Island at www.andrewpekler.com/phantom-islands

Dougherty Island - 120º W, 59º S
Captain Dougherty of the English whaling ship James Stewart, discovers the island in 1841 and describes it as 5–6 miles long with a high bluff to the northeast and a valley in the middle covered in snow. Dougherty's discovery is confirmed by English captains in 1859, and 1891. Sailing through the area during Shackleton's Antarctic expedition of 1908–1909, Captain Davis, Chief Officer of the Nimrod suggests that fog banks or icebergs had deceived Dougherty and his successors. Nonetheless, a license granting “exclusive rights to occupy the island for the purposes of removing guano and other fertilising substances” is issued to the Norwegian whaler HJ Bull by the British Government in 1913. 

First appearance: 
1892 British Admiralty Chart of the South Pacific

Last appearance: 
1910 Royal Geographic Society Chart of the voyage of the Nimrod

Dougherty Island

The full 25-track retail soundtrack for Deus Ex: Human Revolution available for streaming on Soundcloud. Michael McCann's critically acclaimed soundtrack to Deus Ex: Human Revolution is available through iTunes, Amazon, Sumthing Digital and other online retailers worldwide. The 25-track soundtrack combines many of the almost 200 tracks created for the game into a 70 minute journey through the heavily atmospheric, and oppressive world of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

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