This fourth selection of outernational dub from Richard Norris is the best one yet. Booming bass, seismic echoes and fathoms deep reverb take up a widescreen space and shake the foundations. Mighty dub versions and melodies. Dive in!

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Richard Norris takes cues from Nat Birchall a coupla weeks back (actually, this is his forth volume, so I think he technically pips Nat to the echo chamber - Ed) in turning his hand to the joys of dub. Much more electric than Nat's trad roots offering; this one shares its DNA with Deepchord, Strategy, Froid Dub, Jahtari, Dub Surgeon etc.

TRACK LISTING

1. Connected Dub
2. A Decoy For Demons
3. Earthsea Dub
4. Maximum Bass
5. Flying Crane Dub
6. Mirror Cave Dub
7. Ceefax
8. Ceefax (RN Amp Freqq Dub) - CD ONLY
9. Ceefax (Jon Carter Due South Dub) - CD ONLY

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Soul Jazz Records’ special new 18th anniversary one-off limited-edition heavyweight special-edition red coloured vinyl pressing (+ download code) exclusively for Record Store Day 2025 of their out of print classic Rumble In The Jungle.

This album is fully remastered, relicensed and with new tracks exclusively for RSD 25.

Soul Jazz Records journey in to early 1990s ragga, drum and bass and jungle. The album features all-time classic jungle anthems such as General Levy’s ‘Incredible’ alongside some serious Ragga heavyweight tunes like Cutty Ranks ‘Limb By Limb’ and Congo Natty’s classic re-make of Barrington Levy’s Under Me Sensi’.

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We shall never apologise for our love for the work of Steve O'Sullivan. His contributions to the world of dub techno are second to none. They are also mad consistent both in style and quality which means they never age. Here he steps up to Lempuyang with his Blue Channel alias alongside Jonas Schachner aka Another Channel for more silky smooth fusions of authentic dub culture and Maurizo-style techno deepness. Watery synths, hissing hi-hats with long trails and dub musings all colour these dynamic grooves. They're cavernous and immersive and frankly irresistible and the sort of tracks that need to be played loud in a dark space. In that context, you'll never want them to end.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Another Channel returns, this time with Steve O'Sullivan on the dials. Fast becoming 2025's answer to Rhythm & Sound, Another Channel mines that dub-techno seam with a keen ear for deep frequencies and hypnotic riddims. Really strong stuff indeed. Whole EP reminds me of 'See My Yah'.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
Searching
Searching (Dub)

Side 2
Protection

It says a lot about the interconnectedness of the global dubwise underground that it took downtime with Bristolian Neek in Portland to spur the link between ZamZam and Feel Free Hi Fi out of the Minneapolis Twin Cities. Once he put us on to them we were hooked- not only by their brilliant music but by their rigorously DIY approach and aesthetic. Heavily inspired by the more esoteric angles of early digi-era JA dancehall and UK dub (Shaka, Disciples, Mixman and Gussie P being some touchstones) the duo create a sound both reverential and unique, steeped in the traditions but striking out hard left into idiosyncratic territory all their own. Releasing all of their works up to this point on their own fantastic Digital Sting label, we’re excited to showcase them on ZamZam.

In “Voyageur” an ominous mid-range figure, heaving synth bass and complex intertwining melodies drive the tune into heavily cinematic territory, thick atmospherics and strange synthetic animal calls like a lost John Carpenter soundtrack-in-dub. The duo says, “Voyageur in its title speaks a bit to the mythic, mysterious, but also very real wild places of the North Country where we live... and how it all rubs up against the contemporary urban environment.”

“Underground”s opening stabs, bassline and drums could have time-travelled from Unity Sounds or Jammys, but bring an eerie darkness in their deployment that is unmistakably now. Feel Free Hi Fi explain, “Underground in its title is a tribute to the spirit of underground music, of the DIY non commercial ethos... So the tunes together kind of speak to time and change, and the struggle of what's going on now. Trying to preserve the environment and and also the wild places of basement and warehouse gigs, and the outsider mentality of underground music that also seems like it's fading away but hopefully isn't lost.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Leading soundsystem killers, ZamZam Sounds enlist Minnesota's avant dubwise fashionistas Feel Free Hi Fi to ramp up the low hertz for a double header of digi-dub steppers aggression.

TRACK LISTING

A. Voyageur
B. Underground 

Shell Company & Older Brother tap into the Mancunian continuum to deliver heavy sounds for heavy times on 'Shards', their debut release on Numbers.

Born from voice notes sent between Manchester, London and Lisbon, the release took shape remotely before being recorded inside Manchester’s The White Hotel, then refined in the sonic labs of Numbers and La Chunky in Glasgow.

Set across one night, 'Shards' is the fragments of the never ending process of breakdown and placing pieces back together. Along four tracks, the voices of Shell Company (Rosabella Allen) and Older Brother begin far apart, then argue, reflect and collide, trying to find the ground they stand on, with the music laid by brothers Rob and Chris Banks. The two voices work both together and against each other, rendering images that could only exist in limbo: running taps, cans on the floor, and crumbling walls.

Shell Company & Older Brother say of the release —

“Shards is a scream that sings softly. A record that shifts between confusion and sense, hopelessness and hope. Despite moments of intense and perfect connection, the shards rarely fit. Shards is a record not about giving up, but giving in. A recording of the victory that comes from surrendering to float, all because 'it will all make sense one day'. Shards is about love that begins and ends with broken pieces."

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Anything that's recorded in cult Manchester night spot The White Hotel is sure to cause a bit of intrigue with all the weirdos here at Picc HQ. Industrial-dubwise movements with introverted spoken work elements and a smothering darkness. Check!

TRACK LISTING

A1. Shard
A2. 4U (Luv Thing)
B1. 10am
B2. In The Silence It Only Gets Louder