27.9.13

We're back from the summer break with a pile of new goodness:

First off is an ultra-deep EP with legendary Berlin-based mic chanter
Paul St. Hilaire, aka Tikiman, seeing Rootah back at the controls of
the epic title track called "Nah Ina It" plus a B-side full of hits,
cooked up together with disrupt.

The EP comes with a spooky cover by Kiki Hitomi and is a limited
pressing, so do your ears a favour and bag it quick smart over HERE!

The next edition of our highly collectable 7" series sees Maffi return
with a big bad thing called Heidi Riddim. Built from the DNA of
Sleng Teng, Heidi flips the scripts on this most classic of classics
by taking it to the black keys, and has been specifically engineered
to kill tin pan sounds and discombobulate Babylonians.

This 2 x 7" riddim package comes with deadly vocal versions by
Speng Bond, Junior Roy and Scorpio-legend Lord Sassafrass and is a
strictly limited pressing, so don’t sit on them – they’re bound
to be gobbled up rapidly! So best have a wee gander over HERE.

In other news we seriously got into building our own music gear
lately: a SID synth, using two original Commodore C64 sound chips,
and the rudebwoy among analog delays, a pimped up version of the
Korg Monotron Delay.

Both machines are in constant use in the Jahtari studio and during
live shows, and we can build those babies on request for you too.
All infos, sounds and videos over HERE. More gear to follow!

10.3.13

Coming straight from a solar powered shipping container in
Australia is THIS heavy twelve by Melbourne's number one
sampling warrior Monkey Marc, who's mashing up Hip Hop and
Dub inna down under style like no other. With the analogue filter
modules in constant overdrive mode, a groove not found on any map
and a bass too deep to measure, this rugged masterpiece develops a
complete life of it's own. All faithfully recorded to cassette and then
dubbed out to the max by disrupt - spark up and give it a listen over
HERE!

The master of the magnetic scrolls is back at the boombox with his
second Jahtari EP, once again exploring the more rugged corners of
the dub universe. 'Where Is The Time' switches the tape heads into
heavy current mode, driving a battery of damaged 8-bit-chips into a
thermal meltdown.

The EP also contains two special cuts of older Tapes gems: a 12"
extended dub mix of Vernon Maytone's 'Old Pan Sound' that
originally came out on a now hard to find 7" on Tape's Selah
Wadadda label. And an ultra-heavy, extra-crackling cassette mix of
the ghostly 'Pipe Cleaner' with haunting flutes by Diggory Kenrick
that recently appeared as limited 7 on Meeuw Muzak. Serious
voltage banned on tape HERE!