Sicaria Sound

Round The World Girls

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Sicaria Sound present Mixtape Club 004 - forty minutes of unrelenting rhythmic pressure from across the globe.

Reflecting on the very beginnings of the Sicaria Sound project, Round The World Girls captures the uncanny 140BPM pressure and ambitious percussive energy that ties their sound together. Pulling together a dizzying variety of dubstep-adjacent styles and bass-heavy sounds, the mixtape maps out a global vision of contemporary soundsystem music.

In their own words; “Our musical ethos as Sicaria Sound has always been to explore 140/70BPM. So like we always try to, this mix covers a wide spectrum of sounds around these BPMs as well as others we’ve pitched into the fold."

“However, we’ve also revised something close to our hearts for this mix: at the very very start of our Sicaria Sound journey — back when we were at uni studying Geography and volunteering as radio producers — we created a project called ‘Round the World Girls’ in ode to Tes La Rok's remix of Uncle Sam's track of the same name."

“The plan was a six part series to sonically travel across the globe through our DJ mixes, picking up producers along the way from various countries / whose music was inspired by their environment or heritage and with a particular focus on non-“Western” regions. We only made it to the first episode before being offered a regular radio show which dominated our time and creative output, so we banked the concept for later."

“So five years on we’re excited to finally re-ignite our OG concept via this mix! Collectively repping 33+ countries (that we know of), there's modern-day takes on dubstep; faster paced percussive cuts; odes to hip hop etc. This mix also includes a couple bits from present and forthcoming affiliates of our label Cutcross. It’s been a pleasure putting this together, especially in that this being our last year as Sicaria Sound it feels like we’ve gone full circle!”

In Sicaria Sound’s last year together, Round The World Girls feels like a perfect synthesis of everything that made the project so vital — a properly ambitious approach to dubstep and soundsystem music that celebrates the endless innovations and mutations that defines the 140BPM space.

The beautiful Round The World Girls cover comes courtesy of London’s Fa & Fon.

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Mixtape Design: Fa & Fon