SKRSINTL meets MX7 inna DANCEHALL SHOWDOWN!

Shimmering hologram oases belie the bone-dry heat inna this ya ghost-bloodcl@$t-town; When tumbleweed beliefs pose as the only sign of life, it's time to step into Death's saloon; Bust down the dusty double-swinging doors even the Preacher-man dares not enter!

The Bartender has run out of liquor and listening;  Sullied Doves have danced their last number; Lawmen, levelled and long-gone, litter the dance floor;  Bodied outlaws doubled and draped over the bar. When the only exit is a horse-drawn hearse;  Face to face with Death, who will shoot first!?!

Step into this rattlesnake-ridden realm!  Dancehall Showdown is a crazy non-place world where 60’s Spaghetti Westerns, 70’s Library Synth Records and 90’s Golden Era Dancehall come together for a death-defying communion inna Yard!   The old posse of SKRS and MX7 ride once again under the banner of their co-run label, ICS Library Records, off into the fringes of sound-based reality.

SKRS' OG Papa Coolbreeze reinforces their select palette, "This album is our reiteration of influences ranging from Spaghetti Western era Upsetters to Raymond Scott's Manhattan Research Inc. to early Horsepower Productions.  Now the soundtrack we paint, however, is something entirely unique on its own".  Simply put: there's NOTHING like it out there!

Full disclosure: this LP has been shelved for well over 3 years now with the sudden disappearance of Oklahoma's now-mythical Digitalis Recordings, who were set to release it hot on the heels of their 2012 SKRS debut LP, TheCallFromBelow.  Since then, we've laboured to break more ground and lay several more keystones in the growing SKRS/ICS groundation-foundation in order to withstand its intensifying expanse and weight.  Now that the ground has been prepared, we've decided to take Dancehall Showdown back into our own hands and give it the proper love and nurturing we had always intended for it.  With Honest Jons taking up exclusive distribution duties, everything is in place. Peace to the Universe who conspires to manifest our reality.

Exclusive Distribution by Honest Jon's London

xxx

MYSTERYFORMS Showdown REEL

MYSTERYFORMS takes us into Death's Saloon inna dis ya action-packed xxxtravaganza for the forthcoming flagship ICS Library Records album release:

 "SKRSINTL meets MX7 inna Dancehall Showdown!" 

☠️ When the only exit is a horse-drawn hearse;  

Face to face with Death, who will shoot first!?! ☠️

You've been warned!

xxx

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.

xxx

A Showdown Soon Come!

Tension mounting and temperature rising;
Looking Death square between the eyes...
Who will shoot first??


SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL meets MX7
inna DANCEHALL SHOWDOWN!

Our kind allies at Galaxaburn have graciously presented us
with lost footage from this monumental battle,  sounding
the death knell as trouble soon comes to town.

Flinch at your own peril...

xxx