Christchurch's number one mashed-up amen hard-stepper tours the country

Anything Test Dead: The 'new Zealand Ragga Sound' / Ten Pound Sound 001 Release Tour Feat: Dj Taktik

DJ Taktik, Christchurch's number one mashed-up amen hard stepper tours the country to promote the release of his debut CD EP 'New Zealand Ragga Sound' on Ruffneck Souljah Recordings. Five tracks of no holds barred dancehall ragga jungle mayhem.

As an extra special treat DJ Taktik will be debuting the first vinyl release from our brother label in Canada 'Ten Pound Sound', old-school reggae influenced jungle from DJ's Rhygin (Ragga-jungle.com) and Rune that murder any dance.

A limited number of copies of this 12 will be available in New Zealand through Ruffneck Souljah Recordings.

April 15th @ Valve 10pm start (Wellington)
$2 Entry
Strictly R18
Cheap drinks
Local Support
TheUpbeats
Roy Darke
Sift

April 24th @ Base 10pm start (Christchurch)
$2 Entry
Strictly R18
Cheap drinks
Local Support
Construct
Domino
Saboteur
MC Laban

Copies of 'New Zealand Ragga Sound' DJ Taktik's debut CD EP release on Ruffneck Souljah Recordings available for sale on the night. (Price TBA)

Label Bio:

Ruffneck Souljah Recordings

Next level amen mashup hard-stepper b-boyism dancehall ragga steez for your face fool. Ruffneck Souljah recordings is a New Zealand owned and run 'Ragga Jungle' record label focused on building the scene locally while at the same time pushing our own talent into the faces of the rest of the new school jungle community worldwide.

Dub fi Dub, Ragga Jungle movement blazing a trail across the globe in 2003.

Ten Pound Sound

Ten Pound Sound, the newest sound out of Toronto Canada, was setup to showcase work of new and upcoming artists from around the globe. With 10lb-001, featuring tracks by Rhygin (Ragga-Jungle.com) & Deportee (Congo Natty Tribute website), on it's way to stores with excellent feedback from the community and 10lb-002 scheduled for release in early May big things gwan for TPS...

Artist Bio:

DJ Taktik aka Degenerate NZ aka J.Mitchal

My love for ragga vocals started when I got given an album called 'Tease Me' by 'Chaka Demus and Pliers at the age of ten. I liked the way a track could just consist of a rough vocal riding a raw beat. But due to my lack of reggae knowledge at that age, where I lived and the amount of pocket money I was being given, meant that it was quite a few years until I found a genre called ragga jungle that consisted of the two things I liked about that first tape; rough vocals and a very raw beat.

As a lot of old school jungle records are a bit hard and very costly to get hold of, I searched the internet looking for jungle MP3s, building up a track knowledge of what labels, producers and ragga MCs I liked best.

One day I stumbled across a new school ragga jungle producer named Soundmurderer on a label called Rewind Records. I vowed that I would own this record one day and represent this sound to the fullest. A lot more new school ragga jungle producers have popped up, people like Krinjah, General Malice and Sixteen Armed Jack.

After starting out DJing on cd decks three years ago, I found I wasn't achieving the level of professionalism in DJing that I wanted, so I sold those and bought two new Technics Mark 3Ds. Now I DJ out regularly, and own all of the Soundmurderer records on Rewind (except the first one), and a lot more by other producers.

At the start of 2002 I started playing round making ragga on my computer, and ended up making the Champion Rudebwoy remix. From there, I managed to write a few more tracks which turned out quite well.

I hope that in the future, more djs represent the new ragga jungle sound (as well as the old), and that many more producers make tracks to further push this genre onwards and upwards.