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ICS 009LP
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The gun tune to end all gun tune, The Guncontrolla is a righteous pacifist dub statement from the Seekersinternational posse, who go about field recording a workshop on a classic firearm disassembly and reassembly demonstration conducted by a Cold War veteran at a military surplus shop; a practice known in the community as "field-stripping". Armed with a battery-operated 1987 Tascam Porta Two 4-track recorder and a Shure SM57 cardioid microphone, the SKRS dismantle the disassembly of a Colt British Service Pistol, a Glock 34 Competition Pistol, a Kalashnikov 1967 Soviet Rifle, and a Springfield M1 Garand Rifle, in a temporal warp of dreamlike dread tension, where, crucially, not a single shot is fired. It's clear and fair to say the SKRS treat their subject carefully to avoid any sort of romanticization or fetishization of guns or violence. Instead they carefully but ruggedly use dub's transfigurative techniques to turn the workshop recording into an absorbingly abstract warning shot coaxed out of their mythical echo chamber. Drawing on ideas of metaphysics, metallurgy, and telekinetic mysticism, the results are fascinating, conjuring some imaginative intersection of a back yard GRM and the Black Ark, and characters from The Harder They Come (1972) spliced into scenes from Falling Down, fed thru psycho-delic, dematerialized concrète that intends to defuse and diffuse the curse of gun violence with the black magick of dub musick. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Edition of 500.
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BOOMARM 010LP
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"10 tracks of potent, crackling dub abstraction and sound system meditations. This album is a special SKRS dedication to the all powerful divine feminine force, the international Gyal dem! Housed in an incredible gold, black, & white printed sleeve designed by SKRS in-house visual wing, MYSTERYFORMS. Limited to 550 copies."
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DIGI 045LP
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SeekersInternational comes from the mysterious Transmolecular collective, heavily-informed by sound-system culture and sounding like classic material from Rhythm & Sound, Kit Clayton, Disrupt, Actress, Pole and Andy Stott. The album was written and compiled during the darkest hours: dubbed-out rhythms echo from smoldering speakers, looped to infinity like a message to the heavens. It's the driving force behind this music that sings in its distinct, confused voice while wondering where it all went wrong and how to dig out of that barren hole. Fledgling beats are built through repetition and embrace; they are the beginning of the end and deliverance from the bottom. I hesitate to call this music spiritual, but it's hard to deny the purified feeling that SKRS leaves you with. This is music that will fill not just physical spaces, but also all the crevices within. It's been mastered and assembled in such a way as to maximize its impact and to underline that The Call from Below is the sound of home. Mastered by The Stunt Man at Suite Sound Labs and cut to vinyl by Lupo at Dubplates + Mastering, Berlin. Cover illustration by Mysteryforms.
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