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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SendWeASign Videomatic Version

SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL - SendWeASign from BOOMARM NATION on Vimeo.

  Load up unnu Betamax players and run tape!  Ultra-magnetic offering by man like Max Kelan Pearce using video lens haze and tape degradation to mirror the Seeker's plea for rest and deliverance from confoundment and confusion.  Send we a signal that we may know that we're on the right path! 

*SendWeASign is taken from the album HER.IMPERIAL.MAJESTY, out 06/16 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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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 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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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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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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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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The Call From Below - Now Here!

SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL presents The Call From Below

somewhere at the junction between

night and day, we find seekersinternational

plunged into deeper rub-a-dub territory

engulfed in the hazed light;

trudging on by a faint ember of promise;

hearts smoldering;  echoes of an ancient cry

The Call From Below is the first
full seekersinternational album project
on the brand new Gold Label collection

crucial selections that labour to
find upfulness in sorrow; clarity in
confusion;  livity in death

hype and revelry fade; the dancehall
empties out onto the road home;
 we keep the tape running...

come down selecta make it run;

cos the dance cyant done
GET YOURS HERE

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