What a joy to join the ZamZam family ❤️❤️❤️

- Sélection 100% vinyl 100% ZamZam / Khaliphonic - 

Si un label sait faire preuve de consistance sans aucun compromis c'est bel et bien ZamZam sounds. De la production à la sérigraphie, rien ne leur échappe et les plus grands noms de la scène mondiale sont passé par leurs établissement : Gregory Isaac, Alpha & Omega, Ishan Sound, RSD, Badawi, Macka B, Al Wootton, Junior Dread, El Mahdy Jr, Big Youth, Brendon Moeller, Johnny Clarke...
Quality !

Depuis 2012, des sorties strictement vinyls en tirage limité, avec des galettes pressés aux petits oignons, du design à la presse, des pochettes sérigraphiées à la main via Polygon Press gérées par Tracy. Au-delà de ZamZam, ils dirigent également le label Khaliphonic qui explore des sonorités mondiales passées à la moulinette Dub comme Los Gaiteros De San Jacinto et leur cumbia ancestrale, l'ambient avec Sam Binga & Welfare et plus encore. Acteurs incontournable, ils font partie de cette grande famille qui inonde les ondes aux côtés de Bristol avec Dubkasm et Gorgon Sound, depuis Tokyo chez Disc Shop Zero ou Undefined, en France avec Von D et OBF.
C'est à Portland, Oregon que le QG et l'esprit de ce label est ancré. Issu du défunt label BSI (Bucolic Sound Investigations) tenu par Ezra aka E3 qui perpetue cet engagement au service du dub et de ses valeurs avec des artistes cultes tel Muslimgauze, King Jammy, Jah Warrior, Henry & Louis, The Rootsman...Le label s'éteint au milieu des années 2000 et c'est en 2012 il y a maintenant 10 ans que ZamZam est crée par Ezra et Tracy. Depuis, ce label est devenu incontournable, pourrait-on dire même crucial. En 2018, c'est au Telerama Dub Festival de Paris qu'ils se sont produits pour une dance accompagné du Sinaï Sound System. Les présent-e-s s'en rappellent encore !

Le label fêtera 10 ans d'activisme le 30 Juin au Outlook Festival avec un line-up incendiaire : 
Adam Prescott, Al Wootton, Dubkasm, J.Sparrow B2B J:Kenzo, Marcus Anbessa, Maria, Om Unit, Rider shafique, Sun of Selah et bien sûr ZamZam Sounds themselves E3 & TR.

Voici donc un petit mix non-exhaustif de quelques pépites de ma collection. 
Sounds from the well !


-All Crew United !


Intro / Dennis Brown
1) Disciples / Liberation I [KHALIPHONIC 02]
2) Adam Prescott Meets Iration Steppas – Acid Storm [ZAMZAM86]
3) Alpha Steppa / Liberation [ZAMZAM63]
4) Al Wootton / Request [ZAMZAM78]
5) Ishan Sound / Forward [ZAMZAM15]
6) El Mahdy Jr / Last Deal [ZAMZAM21]
7) Alter Echo & E3 / Warning Dub (Ishan Sound Special) [KHALIPHONIC06]
8) Alter Echo & E3 / Warning Dub [ZAMZAM19]
9) Akcept / Over & Out [ZAMZAM75]
10) Lapo & Ago / Shot The King [ZAMZAM83]
11) D-Operation Drop / Warrior March [ZAMZAM54]
12) Karma / Crampton Beat [ZAMZAM73]
13) Emperor T / Mek It Run Dub [ZAMZAM45]
14) Compa / Shaka's Truth [ZAMZAM39]
15) Mikael / Corner Dub [ZAMZAM57]
16) J. Sparrow & Sun Of Selah / Behold [ZAMZAM84]
17) Egoless & Tenor Youthman / Non-Immigrant Song [ZAMZAM50]
18) Alter Echo & E3 / Rif Mountains Dub [KHALIPHONIC08]
19) Al Wootton / Every Tongue Confess [ZAMZAM 85]
20) Babe Roots / Be Still [ZAMZAM59]
21) Rhythm & Sound w/ Sugar Minott / Let Jah Love Come [BM-17]

-All Crew United !

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http://zamzamsounds.com/
Retrouvez les sur LYL pour leur show mensuel "Sounds From The Well"
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original DWYCK print by Felix Jackson Jr.
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DWYCK Podcast

DWYCK EP02 ZamZam Sounds Special

It feels redundant to introduce a duo so beloved by, and important to, the modern UK and global sound system community. If you don’t know Dubkasm by now, then you must be very new to the scene indeed! Working tirelessly over the last two and a half decades to forward the traditions of sound system reggae, dubplate culture, and Bristol history in particular, Stryda and Digistep as Dubkasm are truly an institution. It’s always an honor to work with them, whether live or on wax, and this record is another testament to their continuing vitality, vibes, and vision. 

“Mighty Designer” is a mystical stepper of the highest order. Gorgeous flute rides a tough riddim dominated by a relentless bassline. Clocking in at 140 bpm it’s both languid and driving, heartical and militant, an opalescent jewel of a tune that is also message music: while the second half goes full dubwise, the first features a profound meditation on the wisdom of the Creator as witnessed in the beauty and balance of Creation. “When you check out… how each thing set up in a different mathematical order- you know it must be a Mighty Designer…”

On the flip, the abstract intro to “Almighty Version” signals we’re in for a tougher Part-2-style. Percussion and hi-hat tease and intertwine before dropping into the elemental bass & drum attack. The voice is stripped completely, as all-hands-on-desk focus on bass, drums, filtered percussion, and reverb and echo as instruments. Animal sounds and melodics emerge from a dense, primordial, teeming background to shimmer briefly then recede again. “Almighty Version” is a trance-inducing dub that continues the meditation on the message - through music alone.     

Mastered by Sam at Precise. Art, design, and screen printing by Polygon Press. Limited to 800 vinyl copies for the world. No repress, no digital. Shipping end of November, 2022.

Dubkasm "Mighty Designer" b/w "Almighty Version" ZamZam 89 7" vinyl blend

Taka Noda AKA Mystica Tribe has been releasing deep music on vinyl since 2011 on labels including SD Records, Solar Phenomena, Silent Season, and his own Mystica Tribe Records. Working in the dub/techno continuum, he is one of only a handful of artists who creates brilliant tunes at both ends of the spectrum, from heavy, psychedelic warehouse techno to beautifully orthodox reggae-infused dubwise. For his first ZamZam, he leans hard into the latter. 

Noda describes his approach to these tunes as a “virtual live band,” and while “the only real live instrument is the melodica, I wanted to capture the energy of a live band with this song.”

A master of both melody and rhythm, Noda does exactly that with “Ido” (which means a well for water). The mood hits immediately with a loose & confident groove built from impossibly-live sounding drum work, a perfect orthodox bassline, and achingly beautiful interplay between piano, clav, and melodica. Somehow both melancholy and bright, it captures that moment when winter gives way to the first hint of spring, sun finally breaking through clouds after months of rain and darkness. 

Rather than a simple dub of the A side, the version is a complete rebuild of the tune. “Ido - Renren Version” (which means flowing like tears, or a river) drops the tempo down to 120 but goes harder rhythmically in spite of its slower tempo. Opening with a stark, dark, and menacingly driving bassline and warped dub siren, the vibe is completely transformed from above-ground to below. Hard percussion, new melodica parts, and 4-4 hats & kick take it into that full post-punk dub territory that the world needs more of. Much more!!

Strictly limited to 650 copies for the world. No digital, no repress. Art, design & screen print by Polygon Press. Mastered by Sam at Precise, Pressed at Third Man. Shipping end of February, 2023.

Mystica Tribe "Ido" b/w "Ido" (Renren Version) ZamZam 90 7" vinyl blend

10' Vinyl available at : 

https://777hz.bandcamp.com/album/7hz002

Hiss is Bliss ft Linval Thompson - Free Jah people / Hiss is Bliss - Dub Free

10' vinyl available at :

https://777hz.bandcamp.com/album/7hz003

Magophon ft Murray Man - Break we down / Dub

DUBCOM010V. 10" Minty Ice Vinyl. Out now!

@bukkhaspace & @dubbing-sun-soundsystem ft. @donovankingjaymusic - Whip Dem (Original Mix)

Buy Links: https://www.juno.co.uk/products/bukkha-dubbing-sun-donovan-kingjay-whip-dem/933639-01/
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Bukkha & Dubbing Sun ft. Donovan Kingjay - Whip Dem (Original Mix)

We love it when family return to ZamZam and #92 welcomes back Blind Prophet & Ishan Sound in their first cross-pond collab.  



Begun in 2019 when Joe & Cris met in Portland for the first time, “The Labyrinth” is a phantasmagoric dream of intertwining melodic figures, buoyant mid-range synth work, bright percussion and piping flutes over a driving steppers riddim. Playful, even spritely, but belying a menacing core.



Flipping the key and darkening the vibe substantially, “Minotaur Dub” strips out the lighter tones, pulsing and pushing through dark tunnels of reverb and echo, deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of refracting drums and relentless bass, the sound of pursuit, predator and prey. Fusing the spectral with the functional, the mythic with the technological, this release is for deep forest dances and subterranean sessions alike. This one is ruff… and tuff!!

Strictly limited to 700 copies for the world. No digital, no repress. Art, design, & screen print by Polygon Press. Mastered by Sam at Precise, pressed at Third Man. Releasing end of July, 2023.

Blind Prophet & Ishan Sound "The Labyrinth" b/w "Minotaur Dub" ZamZam 92 7" vinyl blend

75 minutes from us & 45 from Blind Prophet celebrating his new release, ZamZam 92, alongside Ishan Sound.
Track list: 
NAZAMBA - Hot Dub Special
UNDEFINED FT PAUL ST HILAIRE - Victims
PAUL ST HILAIRE - Little Way
RHYTHM & SOUND W/TIKIMAN - Ruff Way
PAUL ST HILAIRE - Ten to One
DEADBEAT FT PAUL ST HILAIRE - Rise Again
ALTER ECHO & E3 - Nubian
BLIND PROPHET & ISHAN SOUND - Minotaur Dub
BLIND PROPHET & BUKKHA - Stone Dub V.I.P.
SEKKLEMAN - Descending Babylon
TUBBY ISAIAH - Conscious Calling
PROGRESSIVE ROOTS ENSEMBLE - AI On the Attack
PROGRESSIVE ROOTS ENSEMBLE - Humane Technology Dub 2
BLACK SLATE - Romans
CULTIVATOR - Hear the Voice of Love
CULTIVATOR - Hear the Voice of Dub
HOLY TONGUE - Threshing Floor
ANNIE ANXIETY BANDEZ - As I Lie In Your Arms
LITTLE ANNIE MEETS NIGHT FOUNDATION - Inertia
LITTLE ANNIE MEETS NIGHT FOUNDATION - Inertia (Dub)
BADAWI - Jinn Al Kaboos

BLIND PROPHET GUEST MIX -
DAVID CORDERO - Lento
BUKKHA - Raindance
ANOTHER CHANNEL & MASIS - Wickedness
BLIND PROPHET FT VERSA - Endless War
BLIND PROPHET - Endless War (Mutually Assured Destruction Mix)
DUJA - Rolling
GREEN KING SOUND - Dubplate
KANKA FT JOSEPH LALIBELA - The Lion is Real
BLIND PROPHET FT DAWEH CONGO - Good Morning Zion
BLIND PROPHET FT DAWEH CONGO - Good Morning Zion (Vocal Dub)
BLIND PROPHET & ISHAN SOUND - The Labyrinth
BLIND PROPHET & ISHAN SOUND - The Labyrinth (Halfstep Version)
??? - ???
JUNIOR DREAD - Dread of Babylon
JUNIOR DREAD - Dread of Babylon (Dubplate Style)
NOEL TEMPO - It’s Time to Be Free

Sounds From The Well radio Ch.51 ZamZam Sounds + Blind Prophet

Yesterday i Found this Tune on my Computer. the track is 7-8 years old. To that time i was really in to 90s stepper UK dub and Jah Shaka was on of my Idols. He inspired me alot to that time!!
Today i put my hands agen on that tune and spiced it up a bit with my skills from today!

The track is free to Download klick on "Buy"

Rest in Zion Shaka and thank you For the Music!!

Another Channel - Tribute To Shaka (FREE DOWNLOAD WAV)

For the past few years we’ve been mesmerized by Elijah Minnelli’s output on his own Breadminster County Council label… a handful of hand-crafted 7”s that live at the foggy intersection of dub, outsider folk, and various strands of Eastern European and South/Central American musics. In hindsight it seems inevitable that he would join the ZamZam family. 

Firmly rooted in dub through its mammoth bassline, ‘Gradually’ is a shaggy, unhurried tune framed by melancholy, almost grieving squeezebox and gorgeous ensemble percussion that reverently recalls early cumbias. The tune is unique for Elijah in that it features fully-sung vocals. Themes of loss, despair, tragedy and coping circle and loop, ironically held in a musical matrix that spirals in deliberate repetition. 

In ‘Gradually Verzion’ the introduction of a minimal melodic figure and long echo trails signal a dramatic shift, going full dubwise steppers without compromising its warm center.  Elijah holds back the wheezy melody, deftly forwarding the percussion in time-honored echo chamber mode.

Our soundcloud clips are always recorded straight from the vinyl with flat EQ so you know exactly what you're getting. 

Strictly limited to 700 copies for the world. No digital, no repress. Art, design & screen print by Polygon Press. Mastered by Sam at Precise, Pressed at Third Man. Shipping early November, 2023.

Elijah Minnelli "Gradually" b/w "Gradually Verzion" ZamZam 93 7" vinyl blend

THE HEATER - INSTRUMENTAL

ZamZam: strictly limited 7" dub vinyl, lovingly designed and screen printed by hand.  No digital, no repress.  Khaliphonic: 10", 12", and LPs. 

Email zamzamsounds@gmail.com to subscribe to the next five releases and have them shipped to your door: $60 (USA only). 

Distribution:
UK: Unearthed, Juno, Dubwise
France: Toolbox
Germany: Hard Wax, Buyreggae.com, HHV
Japan: Dub Store
USA: retailers including Zions Gate (Seattle), Ear Candy Music (Missoula), Musique Plastique & Clinton Street Record & Stereo (Portland)

Elijah Minnelli "Gradually" b/w "Gradually Verzion" ZamZam 93 7" vinyl blend

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