September: 7 bass releases you need to hear this month

Jabu x SKRS 'Oran VIP' (No Corner)

This 7” pairs the Bristol-based, Young Echo-affiliated post-trip-hop duo Jabu with Vancouver’s dub experimentalist Seekers International. Even on paper, you can tell that’s going to work. A-side ‘Oran’ started life as a Jabu dubplate, while B-side ‘Bwoy Test VIP’ was a SKRS instrumental before each got their hands on the other. Even before treatment, Jabu wouldn’t be miles away from something like King Midas Sound (albeit a more rudimentary version), and SKRS has a warm energy and looser groove that brings their work together more in line with something of that quality. But Jabu vocalist Alex Randall actually sounds closer to Inc. vocalist Andrew Aged’s soul/r’n’b croon than it does Roger Robinson’s otherworldly murmur, giving the whole thing a greater turn towards those genres.

8/10