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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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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