SKRSINTL presents the RaggaPreservationSociety EP

SKRSINTL and friends earnestly re-establish their Far East roots inna dis ya Tokyo-matical link up with the boundary-pushing Diskotopia label; they now direct their searchlights straight into the heart of Ragga Jungle...Oh my word!

But wait!  Be very clear, this is no 1990's bandwagon-jumping retro-throwback-nostalgia type ting! Not an oldskool rave romanticism ting; not a new school revivalist ting; this is raw Raggamuffin bizniz from a parallel dimension seen!

SKRS OG Papa Cool Breeze states, "These recordings were made at the unlikely convergence of London pirate radio transmissions, Filipino-Canadian mobile DJ crew gatherings and New-age music meditation communes.  The sound palette may be familiar but the context and design are on some other sh*t.  Previously known only in their own circles, peer-to-peer networks and Usenet newsgroups, we are now presenting them to a wider listening massive."

Respected ethnomusicologist, Sipreano (Grammy-nominated producer/archivist behind Light in the Attic's Native North America and Jamaica to Toronto compilations) reports, "We formed this project to archive and showcase works that widen our scope of understanding of this Ragga diaspora".

Rather than a sterile preservation of established templates, the RaggaPreservationSociety aims at preservation-by-expansion; championing instead Ragga Jungle's intrinsic Spirit of ghetto-futurism and back-a-yard innovation; simultaneously cultivating the roots while fostering new fruits.  

This release marks only the first in a series - so watch this space!

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LoversDedicationStation

Request line dedications past midnight under assumed aliases;

Cold sweats and burning hips;  singular obsessions backed with frayed nerves;

Determined, you make your approach;  Doubting, you double back.

The age-old hunt forever begins anew.  Pursuit, capture and escape in a locked groove.  Forked tongues spell twisted words.  The promise of Union dancing like diamond encrusted chains.  Consummated and consumed in rapture, you don rose-coloured X-Ray specs that betray greener pastures.

Now this ya a Dedication to all who see PAST this relentless push-and-pull sold to us as "love";  To all those who struggle and stand fast amidst the heady swirls and rumblings down low;  To those who are dedicated to Waking Up! and move tirelessly Closer to the Real Thing.

Onelove from the SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL Crew!

Recorded at Aquaboogie Studios, Southeast Richmond 

Mastered by the Stunt Man at Suite Sound Labs, Vancouver 

Artwork and Design by MYSTERYFORMS

Out NOW on the indelible Outernational Dub Champion, Bokeh Versions

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theShopApprenticeEP Limited Edition Cassette

     

     To celebrate the latest initiate and newest member of the SKRSINTL Cru, the ineffable Ranking Miss Isha, 2015 graduate of the Ecclesiastical Society of San Joaquin, we are now delighted to offer theShopApprenticeEP as a stand-alone(!)* Limited Edition Cassette through our sister-affiliate label ICSLibraryRecords!

Straight head-to-head circuitry clash by SKRSxMX7 on tape. Recorded directly in-campus at ICS' Drumalie Ave Television and Radio Research and Repair Lab. Six tracks deep, each tape side is essentially a nine-minute suite in three movements.

SideA : RadioRepairman / BareWires / OpenCircuit

SideB : ShopApprentice / SignalPath / Potentiometer

Professionally duplicated in Eastern Canada on high-bias TDK SA cobalt cassette tape (better than Chrome!). Cover photography and design by MYSTERYFORMS. Edition of 70.

  *The original TAPE+POSTER+DIGITAL Combo Pack can still be purchased here

So gwaan get your dusty tape decks serviced by your local radio repair shop

and ghetto-blast this one ya slice of '88 other-worldly dancehall

Straight to a Soundbwoy head!

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HER.IMPERIAL.MAJESTY

Her.Imperial.Majesty

This is our Dancehall Devotional;

Ghetto original; Our hoarse voices ring;

Backyard confessional...

In humbled surrender and utter awe

We sing praises to Your blinding effulgence;

The divine Mother - in your countless emanations:

From You, most earthy: Big Batty Gyal;

Rope gold garlands of sweat and glitter;

Unapologetic stilettos fracture Death's grip

To You, most exulted: Supreme deliverer of Justice;

Sentences decreed and nay-sayers laid low.

Let nuh boy try fi test!

Hurry come and descend pon we;

Dash out slackness and obstinacy

Rise up Your forces from deep in our hearts;

Make we ready for when the Real Clash starts!!!

Recorded at Aquaboogie Studios, South East Richmond,

and Del Monte Ave Studios, Quezon City

mastered by The Stunt Man at Suite Sound Labs, Vancouver

all original artwork by MYSTERYFORMS

Out on BOOMARM NATION

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GyalCircuit Cassette Single

Boomarm Nation is proud to present SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL's GyalCircuit,

the lead single to the forthcoming full length LP, “HER.IMPERIAL.MAJESTY",

due out worldwide June 16, 2015.

We set things off in fine style with the minimalist bubblers meditation of the title track, GyalCircuit. Cosmic, hypnotic and ready to smash up the dance, SKRS creates a swirling framework built from analog synths firmly grounding a weightless looped deejay toast, exposing the embers of SKRS unique brand of sound system music.

The B side finds Boomarm Label boss GULLS in dub conference along side SKRS, together creating a burned out overdriven VERSION. Replacing the stark, implied spaces of the original with a pummeling 4x4 kick drum and looping sub bass, piled high amidst classic SKRS "bruk" vocal chops and cosmic throws to towers of tape delay and spring reverb.

This is SKRS and Boomarm Nation’s ode to all the Universal Gyal them. Get with this!

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SKRSxMX7xMYSTERYFORMS presents theShopApprentice

     The long-standing relationship between SKRSINTL and the Internal Circuitry Studies (ICS) faculty bears fruit once again!  This time: a triplex collaboration between SKRS, AgentMX7 and MYSTERYFORMS taking the form of a limited edition poster+tape+digital super combination punch, entitled...

theShopApprentice

     In celebration of the seeker in us all - working through inertia and circumstance, fatigue and doubt, poor weather and low signal strength, in efforts to raise our antenna and tune in to His Master's Voice.  Taking a page from one such soul apprentice's private journal entry, together we sing:

A hurried sip of dark tea and I'm out!
Pedalling off into my small shop corner of the galaxy,

Multiple sunsets away, another work day awaits.

In the charged dim light, the Master's song 

Intertwines with soldering fumes; 

and after a friendly exchange,

The repair work begins:

Re-routing faulty signal paths;

Deoxidizing rusted contacts; Purging failed components - 

Anything that gets in the way of pure Electricity

I've yet to develop a steady hand at this tho;

I still tremble at Your mere presence.

How do I make the leap across open circuits?

     Available now on the always vital ICS Library Records imprint, each limited edition combo pack you purchase includes a signed and numbered two-colour Risograph poster by MYSTERYFORMS and an exclusive 6-track EP on cassette and digital by SKRSxMX7.  All proceeds go to the ICS Arts, Crafts and Livelihood Program for Cultivated Living, an essential ICS initiative to help put food on artists' tables, cover portions of their sometimes impressive electricity bills, while continuing to make their works accessible and available to you and the community.  Thank you for your support.

     Original illustration and poster design by MYSTERYFORMS.  Edition of 70.  Two-colour, three-pass Risograph print on 11in x 15in, off-white, 80 lb. drawing paper.  Lovingly printed by Erica at Moniker Press.   The inherent limitations/beauty of Risograph printing causes each edition to align and register colours slightly different from one another (see photo above);  each edition resulting as a unique print - no two posters are ever identical!  Signed and numbered by the mystery man himself.

     Straight head-to-head circuitry clash by SKRSxMX7 on tape.  Recorded directly in-campus at ICS' Drumalie Ave Television and Radio Research and Repair Lab.  Six tracks deep, each tape side is essentially a nine-minute suite in three movements.  Professionally duplicated in Eastern Canada on high-bias TDK SA cobalt cassette tape (better than Chrome!).  Cover photography & design by MYSTERYFORMS.

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SKRS Reconsiders the Vampire's Curse

"Court not the romance of darkness - for demons need love too -

Lest the consequences persist long after the bite is delivered

And a cataleptic slumber fall pon u!"

                                                                           - Baba Raaas

When She and the night conspire to conceal the Light

And the moon consents to cast Her haunting allure

The depths arise and stake their claim; a gnawing hunger for infliction

A sinister joy in the air rattles shutters with accursed laughter

Suffocating plumes of panic and confusion dance in wild frenzy

"Murder Soundbwaay!" never before sounding so fatal

     Inna dis ya soul clash - the classic battle for soul domination - SKRS performs their own brand of dub exorcism on all dark hearts.  In their medicine bag they arm themselves with THE quintessential Scientist codex, a golden chalwah, a ten foot stalk of herb and some holy water.  May Jah have mercy on us all and rid our hearts of all evil curse dem!  Out now on Boomarm Nation

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ROOTPRINCIPLE x MYSTERYFORMS

Our very own breadren artist/collaborator MYSTERYFORMS

bring come the heavy goods with this ya Video Teleportation Poster

for the album ROOTPRINCIPLE on No Corner Tapes

As part of MYSTERYFORMS' on-going

Internal Circuitry Studies (ICS), the video ushers
ROOTPRINCIPLE into the field of Psycho-Opto-Acoustics

Come along on a deep jungle trek with SKRSINTL

8-bit meditation across the nation!

Get locked on

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SKRS Jungle Station Installation

Introducing! The freshly inaugurated

SKRSINTL Jungle Station installation!

a MYSTERYFORMS x SKRS co-operation

YARDTECH Revival

freak-out, deteriorated digi-dancehall-dub at its maddest;

the crucial selections of YARDTECH is now rescued

from 128kbps limbo and risen from ferric tape dust

Uncle Freddie Skeng, visiting from the Philippines,
has brought us the original cassette tape master
of this criminally overlooked recording

finally! we are able to properly (re)present and lovingly share
this rowdy ep - FREE - to all the staunchest dub adventurers and
SKRS fanatics.  get yours here in glorious HI-RES LO-FI!





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TheWhereBetween VERSION

And now! Longtime artist-collaborator MYSTERYFORMS

further develops the SEEKERS vision of inner dread circuitries,

soundsystems, and dub introspection into betamax territory

Embracing the culture of the Version, we now

present to you TheWhereBetween

inna VIDEOMATICAL style!

SEEN

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TheWhereBetweenYou&Me

      In celebration and thanksgiving for the latest addition to the SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL crew - our newest junior bubbler to run come bless up the Dance, the inimitable invincible Young Pow-Wow, we hereby present the listening massive with dis ya FREE musical excursion!

When neither the illusory Here
Nor the unfathomable Hereafter
Provide safe harbour;

The seeker has no place to turn
but TheWhereBetween
You&Me

And through it all : A solitary prayer;
A broken record loop-like chant for deliverance
One foot in oblivion;  Hanging by a thread of Hope

In Offeration and Dedication to You,
the One, the Eternal, of whom all things Are
Give thanks and praise each and every hour

TheWhereBetweenYou&Me is the dubwise sequel to
TheCallFromBelow; part two combination excursion style
By special request and public demand, it is now yours for free!



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BRUK PLASTIC!

When two heavyweight forces collide,

The inevitable displacement of weak shit is sure; 

Trunks rattle, illusions are tested, dancehall a bruk!

Inna dis ya new outing, wzrdryAV & seekersinternational

aim their sights against all weak-mindedness and set their phasers 

to "KILL";  undoing fake formulas lest we ourselves become undone

Take up the fight here and sign up against all weak shit

"...cos when we come fi nice up the place it's trouble!"
For your direction, for your satisfaction!


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Lost and Found 45s Vol.1

Recent flash floods in Metro Manila continue to cause 

miscellaneous debris and forgotten material to resurface with the tides - 

like elements of the murky subconscious rising up for reckoning

A covert envoy to the Philippines has brought us back

one such washed-out and encrusted artifact:  a mystery recording

we have aptly (re)titled Lost & Found Vol.1

Zig-zagging its way thru caverns inna u area

Echoing spaces shrouded in tape deterioration and dust;

Patient in its unfolding; A Stealth Sound Murderation

With zero information on its roots and origins,

We the listeners are spared from relying pon trivial data for orientation

Having now only the Sound to contend and deal with in its rawest form

Limited edition of 300 hand-numbered records on stark ghost-white vinyl

Original label art by artist/collaborator MYSTERYFORMS

Hand-stamped paper sleeves.  Made in the Philippines.

{editor's note:  Digi versions were recorded from the original test pressings, capturing and preserving all the lovely grit and nuanced materiality of vinyl.  Not all 300 copies survived the floods, however.  Others were warped, cracked and/or moulded beyond repair.  Collectors and music-lovers, reserve yours direct.  A kind thank you to ZamZam Sounds for reminding us about this once-lost recording! }

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TRANSMOLECULAR OFFERATIONS Vol.1

SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL joins top ranking

underground innovators and operators for a rare Sunday

offeration station identification! RAAAS!

GALAXABURN, SIPREANO, WZRDRY A/V,

ASTRX, SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL all on ONE bill!

A wha dem a deh pon!?!

Earliest interactions and collaborations reaching as far back as 

the early 90s are now finally culminating in this FIRST EVER

TRANSMOLECULAR group exhibition of audio and visual works

Join us for a special Sunday Showcase of true - original -

underground - outsider - art and sound.  Presenting works never

before heard or seen.  Dis ya a convergence Not To Be Missed

more details here.  hold tight.

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UnityInnaDancehall 199X

Offered to do a program for CFRO 100.5 FM Co-op Radio's 

Art of Beatz show, SKRSINTL immediately seizes the opportunity to share

one of their most revered -and often referenced- recordings in their collection

Acquired at a high school dance in San Juan, Metro Manila in 1993,
this curious, un-labelled cassette quietly stood out from the stack of underground
mixtapes being sold by Social Distortion Mobile, the deejays of that affair

"We have since then christened this
theretofore un-named tape:
UnityInnaDancehall 199X"

"This live recording was really what turned us on to Dancehall and
Sound System culture for the first time;  we couldn't have imagined a tougher,
more impactful introduction to the art form than this!"  -  SKRS

{editor's note: ethnomusicologists and amateur sound archeologists remain baffled by the above claims as the recording in question seems to traverse chronologies and defy all rationale behind its alleged origins.  We are not entirely sure if what we are hearing is an actual live recording of a dancehall  from another dimension or a completely composed audio piece.  Debates regarding this tape continue, but experts already agree: in this heartical tribute to the finest in Dancehall culture, SKRSINTL lovingly obliterates our all too restrictive definitions of what a radio broadcast, a live recording, a deejay mix, a soundtrack, and a compositional piece can or cannot be.  A unification ting seen!}

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The Call From Below LP on WAX!

     "Digitalis aren't known for their dub affections, but SeekersInternational's 'The Call From Below' is a choice pick for this always-interesting imprint. Coming from an unknown soundsystem posse, it sounds something like Rhythm & Sound meeting Actress and Vladislav Delay for a knockout zoot round Pole's place; essentially a destroyed dub session of the finest calibre, with initial copies coming to you on purple wax."  

                                                                                                                                                                           - Boomkat

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TheCallFromBelow Resurface

Outerbound and Galaxaburn of the indelible
TRANSMOLECULAR family have gifted SKRS with
this visual soundscape to mark The Call From Below's arrival

when Home beckons back, the sound
system signals our return, we the children
come running to heed the call

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The Call From Below - Come Again!

SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL "The Call From Below" Promotional Video from Digitalis Industries on Vimeo.

Seekersinternational's vital-seminal work,

The Call From Below, resurfaces from the

depths; on the wings of a brand new promise.

The esteemed and highly regarded recording label,

 Digitalis Industries, picks up the resonating echoes from

across the seas and responds with resounding reverberation:

Soon to see the light of a second release, the entire

album will be set to vinyl and disseminated through

Digitalis' wider listening network.  Stay tuned...

...di dance cyant done...

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YARDFLEX 45 SPECIAL!

own a piece crucial SKRS history!

the recording that set the foundation: the

undeniable sounds of YARDFLEX - inna 45!

instantaneous dub teleportation;
version deeper excursion; internal
circuitry reconfiguration.

a timeless classic once thought lost
resurfaces;  ever-couched inna mysterious
expanse, incited by the Obeah-man chant.

of the indicated 300 hand-numbered
pressings, only units 101 to 150 have
so far been found.

white vinyl, black label;  inside out
mindframe reversal.  claim your
copy if you hear the inner call!

   YARDFLEX by SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL
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