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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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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wzrdryAV x SKRS x SUSPENDED SYSTEMS EP

artwork by K. Nairn x MYSTERYFORMS

Solidstate, pushing weight, dem breadrens at it again!

Big sounds rearrange, rattling dimensional space

Riddim building blocks in suspended animation

Suspended Systems EP

Out now on Wzrdry Recordings

When yall had enough of that other ish

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SKRS x MYSTERYFORMS Registration Office

SKRSINTL at VIVO Media Arts Centre for Quiet City 13 sees the unveiling of the SKRS Dedication Station - Registration & Administration.  A civic extension of the less-accessible, subtropic Jungle Station, the new satellite office opens its doors to the greater Pacific Northwest massive

Lookout for a branch opening soon near You!

Come by, pop in and say hello!  Share a spliff or two!

Now accepting registration and enrolment applications!

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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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ROOTPRINCIPLE on Bristol's NoCornerTapes!

...it's SKRS in a parallel roots tradition!

Machete pon left and a dagger pon the right

The seeker sets about on an inner pilgrimage

Hacking thru a dense tangle of circuit overgrowth and corrosion

The lush canopy, seen from above

Belies the dread and danger lying-smiling in wait within

Lions in sentinel; challenging those who profess their fidelity

Steel horn speakers call from towers on high while

Drum rumbling from a distance approach

Where time cuts to the chase, notions leave no trace...

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SKRS and No Corner uniting Pacific and Atlantic

on dis ya a station unification ting seen!  NC007

Limited edition of 100 cassette tapes for the reel dub heads dem

A5 foldout cover by MYSTERYFORMS

Insert by C26 and Studio Tape-Echo

X-amount of love inna dis!

Special RwdFwd edition spray painted tapes available now - only at RWDFWD

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SKRS Jungle Station Installation

Introducing! The freshly inaugurated

SKRSINTL Jungle Station installation!

a MYSTERYFORMS x SKRS co-operation

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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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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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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MYSTERYFORMS Digital Portfoliage

Long-time fam and SKRS in-house artist, 

MYSTERYFORMS, has finally completed an

archive of personal works for the people.  

MYSTERYFORMS DIGITAL PORTFOLIAGE:

selected works spanning more than a decade, 

ever-sprouting and taking deeper root.

Identities and Personas

- their frailty, transience, nonsubstance -  

and what lies further beneath:

secret structures, a veiled order,

inner circuitries that forever hard-wire

us to the ONE unseen

Come check the style seen!

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