DUBK-025 - Jah Victory - Dubkasm Feat. Luciano

DUBK-025 - Right There - Dubkasm Feat. Turbulence

Higher Meds - Dubkasm feat. YT

My Music EP

My Music (feat. Buggsy)

Jah Victory EP

Jah Victory

Jah Bible EP

Jah Bible (feat. Ras Addis)

Dubkasm - Rastrumentals Remixes Part 2 is here!

Side A comes courtesy of Bristol resident Phaeleh.  Opening as a straightforward digital steppas, the master of cinematic atmosphere flawlessly integrates Dubkasm’s live instrumentation and his own electronics to reimagine ‘Missão’ as a richly detailed futuristic odyssey while staying true to the tune’s roots style. Crisp handclaps replace the snares of the original, and cellos soar, as the piece layers and evolves with timbale fills and syndrum-like risers, before a monumental sub-bass kicks in.

Sam Binga’s offering is straight-up dubwise,  hurling the original into a ravine, to emerge with the bassline flipped and anchored to the drums, and on-the-fly chops and fader sweeps that sound straight out of King Tubby’s studio. He supercharges the signal with analogue saturation, pushing the bass to seismic levels. Reverbed piano and the ghosts of horns echo in and out of a mix so deep it sounds like it’s fused together on an ancient master tape. Binga’s recent Conamara Fieldworks Project (a collaboration with Welfare) was mixed at the Dubkasm studio, and his rework of ‘Monte de Sião’ shows the same passion for sonic textures and deft cuts.

Mastered on to 1/2” tape at Stardelta Studios, this bass heavy slab of vinyl honours dub’s past, while taking the genre to the future.

https://rastrumentals.bandcamp.com/album/rastrumentals-remixes-part-2

Rastrumentals Remixes Part 2

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Missão - Phaeleh Remix

Released 11 December 2020 - Preorder here: https://tinyurl.com/yxsbrxca

The second release from Sufferah’s Choice is a one-riddim collaboration 12” EP between Dubkasm and Ashanti Selah, the son of the great Aba Shanti-I, and a huge talent in his own right. It opens with a rare guest vocal by the legendary Keety Roots.  A conscious mystic who is renowned for 90s gems like his legendary vocal ‘African Blood’, and for his heavyweight productions on his own Black Legacy label. 

Keety usually only voices his own productions so having his gentle but righteous voice over Dubkasm’s trademark bass and horns and Ashanti Selah’s bubbling keyboards and frenzied drums is a huge and rare honour. A pounding echo filled dub follows.  The b-side is given over to a jubilant horn cut, blending Ashanti Selah’s digital power with Dubkasm’s deep organic sound, and the sparsely melodic instrumental cut.

Dubkasm have known Ashanti Selah since he was a boy, through their friendship with his father, and have watched him grow up in the roots tradition. This collaboration, which has been championed worldwide by the great Aba Shanti-I shows a deep dub connection.

Like all Dubkasm releases, this was mastered on 1/2” tape by Lewis at Stardelta; much requested and highly sought after, this is not a release to sleep on.

PAUL LEE

A1 Love and Overstanding - Dubkasm & Ashanti Selah ft Keety Roots

Brand New 12 Inch - Kings Music! Mastered on 1/2” tape by Lewis at Stardelta and released on hand-stamped 180g vinyl from February 25th. A limited, early run signed by ourselves will be available at www.rwdfwd.com and www.obf-dubquake-records.bandcamp.com on 18th February.

Dubkasm’s thirtieth release on their own label takes the classic soundsystem format of four wild cuts of one pounding digital dub. The format is time-honoured, but King’s Music - which has been run hard on dubplate by the kings of Year 3000 style, Iration Steppas, and French dub ambassadors OBF - is at the cutting edge of reggae. It has mashed up festivals around the world and was one of the high notes of Dub Camp 2019 where Dubkasm rumbled the Dub Club arena.

Majestic FM pads wail and trill through a boss phaser pedal, pushed onward by rugged digital subs and propulsive, steel-edged percussion. The EP builds until Dubkasm pull out the resonant bass filter for the brutal final cut.

King’s Music is future dub at its most intense and inspiring. Paul Lee

A1 Kings Music - Part I

Dubkasm are comprised of childhood friends Digistep and DJ Stryda, who kicked off their dub project in the mid-'90s before going on to launch their Sufferah's Choice label in 2003 in order to showcase their studio productions. Their 2009 debut album 'Transform I' was a culmination of their work so far, collecting tracks from their previous 12-inches and including vocal turns from Dub Judah, Levi Roots and Afrikan Simba. A dub version of the entire record along with a remix CD completed the Transform I Trilogy in 2010.  

Dubkasm continue to push out a positive message through quality roots and dub reggae productions and regular live shows across the globe.

"Modern roots reggae at its finest" - Steve Barker, Wire Magazine

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