Jahtari

Artist:Solo Banton (Ft. Disrupt)
Title:Music Addict EP
Label:Jahtari
After three deadly discs in Jahtari's Maffi series, Solo Banton is back with a vengeance and a full EP, flinging big tunes, the mic and nunchuks alike with the ease of a Shaolin master that would even have made Mr. Miyagi proud. Starting the ride, 'Music Addict' is setting fire to dancefloors with an almost pyromaniac delight while still nicing up the area big time. Solo continues to spin a yarn about your friendly neighbourhood robbers in 'Put It Back', his belt buckle slashing out just as hard as the beats. Witness an epic martial arts battle in 'Kung Fu Master', when Black Belt Banton enters the dojo, riding the knucklebuster basslines crane-style, showing Jet Li how it should be done in the process. Keeping up the fighting spirit and finishing the trip is 'One Of The Greatest', written about and during the people's struggle for freedom in the "Arab Spring" uprisings earlier this year. All tracks are produced by Disrupt, who fills in the gaps with a brace of dubwise versionings; 'Last Blade', and 'Arcade Addict', definitely one of his most slamming disruptions in quite some time. - and 'Last Blade', to guarantee an extra-smooth overall flow of. To mark the occaision of this being the tenth 12" on Jahtari, it also comes in an extrabreathtaking illustrated cover in the tradition of the classic Scientiest LP series.
Artist:Disrupt
Title:The Bass Has Left The Building
Label:Jahtari
The Bass Has Left The Building' is the long-awaited sequel to Disrupt's debut album 'Foundation Bit', which appeared on the wonderful Werk Discs in 2007 and quickly became one of the classic works of modern bass culture. On this new epic voyage Disrupt pushes the genre boundaries of 8Bit-ChipHop, roots dub and old-school gaming soundtracks into one big swirling black hole of low end mayhem. Raw, ultra-shuffling drum machine action and re-wired skanks create the gateway for a mind bending reference network of retro-SciFi movies, arcade classics and dub soundscapes in infinite loop mode.
Artist:Disrupt
Title:Berzerk Dub / Echobombing
Label:Jahtari
Oh yes - with some all new pressure to kick off the nought-nine, Disrupt is back on the joysticks and having another go on the sub-bass highscore with these two fresh robo-skanking low-end belters. 'Berzerk Dub' is a raw elektro-dub joint in the 80s spirit, driven by a simple drum machine beat, straight-up heavy heavy bass, and spooky robot chatter. The tune also salutes Berzerk, the 1980 arcade game which was the first ever to use speech-synthesis, and at the same time pays tribute to Peter Burkowski, the first person die (of a heart attack in 1982) while playing a computer game, you guessed it, he was on Berzerk at the time. On the flip, 'Echobombing' is self-explanitory... an ultra-heavy bass, set to bomb any floor, riding a hip hop beatbox and some rough 8bit-skanks, with plenty of surprising turns and twists along the way. Always pushing the dub sound onwards with fresh ideas and equal amounts of dirty heaviness and a good dose of humour, there's no end in sight for future Disrupt goodness. Both tracks are utterly exclusively new and a rapid sell-out is certain. Mastered for maximum effect at Berlin's Dubplate & Mastering, this 7" is limited to 700 copies.