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Available on Audio Cassette and digital download directly from the label’s Bandcamp: https://cclurl.bandcamp.com/album/a-night-in-the-skull-discotheque

Side A: Bass is Eternal
Side B: 2-step Mutual Dream

A Night in the Skull Discotheque by the beloved underground selector CCL is the latest offering in the T4T LUV NRG label’s highly limited DJ mix series of cassettes. This immersive journey through a wonderland of proto-dubstep sounds from the late 1970s through the year 2000 is a sonic sibling to CCL’s acclaimed 2018 mix Ode to Queer Steppas.

Inspired in part by Eris Drew’s use of “old records to create new styles out of fragments” on her Raving Disco Breaks Vol. 1 mixtape (T4T LUV NRG, 2019), CCL approached this recording with a parallel frame of mind. Created with 3 CDJs, one Turntable, and a Boss Digital Delay 200, the tracks included in the mix are deconstructed from their whole, and constituent parts are intertwined, sampled, and dubbed out while being further stretched beyond their physical limits. CCL mixed many tracks at the 'wrong speed', pitched beyond their original recognizable tone; others are recontextualized through imaginative layering.

With a solid nod to seminal mixtapes of the early 90s, CCL references the namesake for Side A, Bass Is Eternal, an unreleased 1992 mixtape by influential Bristolian producers Smith & Mighty, an important sonic fulcrum amongst the musical tributaries of the hardcore continuum that continues to reverberate to this day. CCL experienced the after-effects of this ‘proto’ sound genesis in 2008, while living in Bristol, by which point its emergent whispers had coalesced into what became known as dubstep. Tracing a rich history of reference through the samples, basslines, moods, and drum patterns emanating from Bass Is Eternal while looking for connections that predate it became a long-term fascination for CCL. The result is a DJ mix that connects the oft-forgotten dots between proto eras and modern developments in bass and dubstep.

For the resulting sonic ride on A Night in the Skull Discotheque, CCL leads us to a fantastical place of timeless surreality – a majestic haunted dancehall soundtracked by a giddy rush of steppers and dubbed-out delights. Subs rattle through syncopated percs, and moody synths glisten in macabre glory. Fantastical dancers wriggle in wispy eternity, liberated from their corporeal forms in all their greatest spiritual wonder. Both extravagant and dusky, A Night in the Skull Discotheque is a world of seductive in-betweens, a place caught between the moodiest depths and the highest exuberance – A love letter to one of the most impactful formative sounds of the last decades.


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A portion for the proceeds from this release will go to fundraiser "SUPPORT PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE!". You can also directly donate via:
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Tape design: Nina Muro
Mastering: TJ Hertz
Additional tape mastering: Eris Drew
Photography: CCL 
Linear notes: Nevan Jio

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Miles Davis - He Loved Him Madly (Columbia)
Rammelzee versus K-Rob - Beat Bop (Tartown / Profile)1982
K-Rob reveals the truth about Beat Bop (Part I+2) (Crane RTW online interview)
Rammellzee & Toxic C1 - Intro @ the Rhythm Lounge 1984
Slinky Gym School feat. Rammellzee - Crazy Sneaker (WEA)1984
Rammellzee & Shock Dell with The Grand Mixer DST - Rammellzee & Shock Dell at The Amphitheatre (Wildstyle Soundtrack / Animal Records) 1983
The Issac Jackson show - The Messages (excerpts) (Tellus Tools) 1982
Death Comet Crew - At The Marble Bar (Beggars Banquet) 1985
Death Comet Crew - Exterior Street (Beggars Banquet) 1985
Ghettovetts - Death Command (4th & Broadway / Island) 1988
Ghettovetts - Gangster Lean  (4th & Broadway / Island) 1988
skit. Weapons (Gamma Proforma)
UNKLE - Rock On (Original/ Nut Cracker mix) (Mo Wax)1997
--- Gothic Futurism  MoWax interview 1995 
Material - No Guts No Galaxy (Palm Pictures / Axiom) 1999
Material - Hisstory (Palm Pictures / Axiom) 1999
New Flesh For Old feat. Rammellzee  - His Stories Crockery  (Big Dada) 2002
Part 2 - Rammellzee 1960-2010 (Atom Rooms film)
The Rammellzee - Here We Go (Tri-Eight Records ) 2003
The Rammellzee - I Be Ramm-Ell-Zee-Zee (Tri-Eight Records ) 2003
Ramm - Cheesy Lipstick  (Gomma) 2003
SSTV/BBL WORLD-  THE RAMM:ELL:ZEE (Japanese chat show)
New Flesh For Old feat Rammellzee - Mack Facts (Big Dada) 2002
The Rammellzee Vs. K-Rob - Beat Bop Part 2  (Gomma) 2004)
Praxis - Garbage Gods (Columbia Music Ent.) 2008
Praxis - Caution (Columbia Music Ent.) 2008
skit Who The Hell I Am? (Gamma Proforma)
Rammellzee - Brainstorm (Divine Styler remix) (Gamma Proforma) 2015
Rammellzee - How's My Girlfriends (Gamma Proforma) 2015
Rammellzee - Crayzay (Gamma Proforma) 2015
Rammellzee - Brainstorm (Gamma Proforma) 2015
Rammellzee - Fight My Fire ( Edan mix) (Gamma Proforma) 2015
Rammellzee - Paint To Pave The Road (Gamma Proforma) 2015


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