Time to free up some tracks that have been hiding since circa 2015. Experiments that I can't just leave behind.

Battle Crux

Endless War out now via my Bandcamp page featuring Versa on melodica and a remix from Saltfeend.

Blind Prophet ft. Versa - Endless War (Bandcamp)

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RIP Walsh gone but never forgotten <3

Bingo

Benga & Walsh - Bingo

2 - @mystic-pulse - Sub Zero Dub released on DUBCOM044D - Various Artists - Various Dubs EP. Digital release out now on Juno Download:
https://www.junodownload.com/products/various-dubs-ep/6437674-02/

Mystic Pulse - Sub Zero Dub (Original Mix)

First BCSM Selects in the year of the dragon. Listen closely!

TRACKLIST:

The Electric Word - Pyramidal Bloom [ZDRTAPE02]
The Electric Word - Nubian Mindset [ZDRTAPE02]
WAV FUZZ - Alignment [Boomarm Nation]
Duckett - Nothing Left [BPRDIGI09]
SAPLEO - Rain Tomorrow [Boomarm Nation]
TXTED - Cherry Lemonade Special [Boomarm Nation]
Low End Activist - Litany Of Mistakes [BPRDIGI09]
Azemad - 7aseb [BPRDIGI09]
NINA - Closeness [Innamind Recordings / free download]
Truant - TEARDROPS [self-released / free download]
Om Unit - E2-E4 Edit [self-released / free download]
Blind Prophet ft. Versa - Endless War [self-released]
Blind Prophet - Endless War (Mutually Assured Destruction Mix)
disrupt - Arcade Addict [JTR7-14]
Dubkasm - Strictly Ital feat. Ras Addis [DUBK-031]
Dubkasm - Strictly Ital - Dubplate Mix 02 - Horns [DUBK-031]
OG Dubs - Nie Wieder Dub
Michael Exodus meets InsensI - Ancestor Dance #1
Michael Exodus meets InsensI - Ancestor Dance #2
Dubar Sound - Until the Last Breath Part I [PDV068 / WCR009 / WR065]
Dubar Sound - Until the Last Breath Part II [PDV068 / WCR009 / WR065]
Ical Ises meets Toroki - Connector [NFR009]
Toroki meets Ical Ises - Connector [NFR009]
Basskateers ft. PostNegative - More Sound (Klinke Auf Cinch Remix) [sabalirecdig007]

BCSM Selects w/ Ju Lion 01/24

Fresh Mix by Macka Dub - Flash It!

TRACKLIST

Kaiju - Wrong Things - [Deep Medi]
Azemad - Afriki - [Awkwardly Social]
Martyn, Om Unit - Tracksuit Dub - [3024]
Macka Dub - Gerneral Dub - [unreleased]
Ras I Mothep - Neptune - [Subsquad Prod.]
Beneath - High Five - [Livity Sound]
Joe Armon-Jones, Mala - A Way Back (feat. Rider Shafique) - [Aquarii Records]
Scopeotaku - Otosu Version - [selfrelease]
Macka Dub - Octopus Mix - [unreleased]
Macka Dub - This Version - [unreleased]
Dub Shrubs - Bombaclart Dub - [selfrelease]
Panix, Lionpulse - Tell Dem Straight Dub - [Firmly Rooted Records]
Jonny Reebok - Aphrodite Dub - [Soothsayer]
Digital Mystikz - Anti War Dub - [DMZ]
NVST - Petroleum Dub - [Pracht]
Klaus - Sabz - [Tanum]
Dutchie - Easy (Halcyonic Remix) - [Hold Tight Records]

BASSCAST #108 by Macka Dub

Big news incoming 🌙 Finally after some years in the making we are ready to drop this special piece by Another Channel 🌙 His brand new 'Unspoken Love Ep' feat. Prince Morella & Marina P will be released on April the 19th on 12" vinyl & digital 🌙

🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/moonshinerec

Unspoken Love EP

Another Channel - Version Of Love

Coming out on the 12th of April on 10' hand stamped vinyl

Hiss is Bliss ft Kojo Neatness + Dub (777Hz004)

COTTAGE CHEESE

Special 420 selection by Big Breeze. Read the article ''Herbs & Culture - On the Cultural Significance of Ganja Tunes'' at basscomesaveme.de

Check the full article here: https://basscomesaveme.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Herbs-and-Culture-On-the-Cultural-Significance-of-Ganja-Tunes-BASSCOMESAVEME-2024.pdf

TRACKLIST

General Trees – Bring the Herb Come
Jacob Miller – Tired fi Lick Weed inna Bush
Triston Palmer – Collie Man
Eek-a-Mouse – Ganja Smuggling
John Holt - Police in Helicopter
Barrington Levy – Under mi Sensi
Mykal Rose – Stalk a Sensimela
Screw Driver – Ganja Killer
Jigsy King – Gimme di Weed
Flourgon – Hol a Spliff
Wayne Smith – Under me Sleng Teng
Burro Banton – Westmoreland Sensi
Jah Mason – Ganja for Life
Ziggi – Blaze it
Collie Buddz – Come Around
Chezidek – Bun di Ganja
Marlon Asher – Ganja Farmer
Macka B – Ganja
Nosliw – Dope & Gras
Roots Rockers feat. Lobstarr – Wunderschön
Congo Natty – Under mi Sensi (Barrington Levy feat. Beenie Man)
Benny Page & Mr Williamz – Pass the Kouchie
Jah Roamy – 50 Pound a Weed
Marcus Visionary – Ganja
Dj Heretic - Ganja Killer
Pixel – Legalize it
Serial Killaz & Mr Williamz – Ganja Smokin’
Stalefish – Too Greedy
Top Cat – Original Ses (Police in Helicopter)
King Kong – Free de Herb (Ink a Link Jungle Remix)
DJ Tuskan feat. Cali P - Herbalistic
Krome & Time – Ganja Man (Serial Killaz Remix)
Ed Solo And Stickybuds – Smoke The Weed

BASSCAST #109 by Big Breeze

ZamZam embarks on their next 50 releases with the return of Portland’s own Systemwide.  After a many-years hiatus the crew once hailed as “The States' finest dub band,” by author & journalist Jeff Chang, is back with two new adventures into live left-of-center dubwise. 

Systemwide released their first album 20 years ago this year, and dealt in an utterly unique live, full-band, leftfield, DIY mutation of dub until 2003. They collaborated extensively with Sound Secretion (now known as Alter Echo), and were remixed by the likes of Muslimgauze, Twilight Circus, Zion Train, Alpha & Omega, Deadbeat, and many others.  They were well-known as a live band from Seattle to LA, opened for Lee Perry and Dub Syndicate up and down the West Coast, and were mixed live by none other than Scientist.  

Aside from the occasional reunion show, a number of forces sent the band into a long hiatus.  But a new generation was exposed to their unique brand of live dubwise via Bristol’s No Corner in 2016, when the label reissued two early cuts on limited 12”.  This release was a partial catalyst for the creation of these new tunes.  In truth the boys had been getting together every few months since 2013 to blast out improvised jams for fun, but with the foresight to multitrack every minute of them.  The task was then to shape two of these freeform jams into proper tunes.  Systemwide was always at their best live, and both of these sides capture that energy while harnessing the vibes to 7” length.  

The lineup is a deadly tight combo of midi drums (Tim Ennis), Korg and Moog bass (Mondell Wells), samples and FX (Steve Wegner), Synths and keys (Tim Andrews), and percussion and samples (Ezra Ereckson AKA E3).  For this release the crew chose to recruit Alter Echo for a mix, as his deft touch always brought out the deepest aspects of the band’s sound.  In addition, it felt natural to ask Dubkasm for a version as they championed the No Corner 12” with enthusiasm and earnest love.  

"Low Orbit" describes a heavy, dark, enveloping dub universe in the classic Systemwide fashion, led by a growling, minimal bassline with swung drums fully locked.  Thick, swirling, alien atmospheres that wed inner out and outer space through ancient samples, test tones, cosmic sparkles and a gallery of organic percussion.  Hard and low-slung at 134 bpm, it pitches up easily for the 140 crew. 

Dubkasm’s remix of “Liberation” echoes out from the same well, offering a solemn, magisterial steppers with bubbling bassline and keys seeming to refract each other through dubwise prisms.  Bristol legend and Rasta elder Ras Addis intones words of wisdom as Stryda and Digistep work their magic with a brilliant hide-and-seek journey through the tune’s instrumentation and the deep spaces opened up through their own hardware and Sountracs desk.

Mastered by Lewis at Stardelta.  Design & screen print by Polygon Press. Limited to 700 copies for the world, no digital, no repress.  Shipping mid-April 2017.  Email zamzamsounds@gmail.com for any info.

COTTAGE CHEESE

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