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ICE REGGAE ONE
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DJ POOLHOUSE IS JAH KK FRÖSZT, AND THIS IS ICE REGGAE ONE
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Ice Reggae is not just a genre—it’s a way of life. Revealed to DJ POOLHOUSE (known here by his Icestafari name, Jah KK Frözst) one cold northern night at the bottom of a frozen gravity bong, through divine intervention by Jah the Most Chill, ICE REGGAE ONE is a continuous deejay mixtape that blends dub, dancehall, Eurodance, white rasta punk, 2-Tone, drum & bass, and '90s club cultures into a sound both icy and warm, white and Black, Arctic and tropical.
It’s frozen disco dub meets sunlit trip hop and bass-heavy indie dance. Frosted steel drums. Sweaty melodica riffs. Pop house soaked in echo. Ice Reggae is the sun on a snow-covered beach—a Revelation of the soulsonic force and the next chapter in the Plan of the Mega Jam.
Rooted in dub’s versioning tradition, Ice Reggae toasts, remixes, and reinvents itself with every frozen pulse, ICE REGGAE ONE is an icy hot arcto-tropical transmission, blessed by the Borean breath of Jah the Most Chill.
[Backklash Communications, 2025.]
PRESS RELEASE:
Hi! Thanks for listening to my inaugural ICE REGGAE set! This was truly inspired by a vision one night last winter, after my gravity bong froze over inside my in-laws’ garage. I was touched by the Borean Breath of Jah the Most Chill, and given an Icestafari name: JAH "KK" FRÖSZT, Prince of Ice Reggae.
ICE REGGAE ONE is ultimately my way of expressing joyous gratitude to our Creator and sharing the blessed revelation of Ice Reggae with anyone willing to receive it—through these delightful dub plates, expertly selected and mixed with the love and care of a painter or a nuclear scientist.
Musically, dub culture and Jamaican music are the foundation of my vision. I enjoy tracing the recursive influence of dub techniques through popular music and celebrating this aspect of the Afro-Euro musical language, which has enriched countless lives and cultures around the world. Ice Reggae is not merely a celebration of “white meets Black,” but a restoration of the Hyperborean spirit that is sparked when men come together and reshape the culture through creative partnership.
As an artist, I view Ice Reggae as a highly refined creative thoughtform for the culture to consume. It is a retroactively constructed musical genre, a fashion style, an attitude, a gnostic faith. Ice Reggae is conceptually built on music, history, mysticism, syncretic creativity, and a future-forward embrace of tradition: the Jamaican music tradition, the pop and club traditions, the tradition of the obscure priests of Dub science and the apocryphal texts of the electrical wizards and gadgeteers of the radio age, and the companion tradition of the brotherhood of Anglo and American fanboys who revered and preserved the glory of dub’s beauty.
This brings me to another inspiration for this mix: '90s compilation CD culture, which brought the millennial generation under the spellbinding influence of dub. Specifically, the treasured Soul Jazz Records (where my fellow 300% Dynamite! uncs at??) that collected rare Jamaican classics.
2 Many DJ’s seminal “As Heard on Radio Soulwax Vol. 2” is the ultimate touchstone for all of my mixes; I could only dream of ever capturing a sliver of their mixtape magic. Finally, the third source of inspiration in this late 90s/Y2K electronica triumvirate is this sick series of downtempo comps called The Chill Out Album (specifically volumes 1 & 2) from Telstar TV, who I feel are sort of like the pop-archivists at Rhino Records but for the UK. The 90s were the golden age of the (very very expensive) imported genre compilation disk and the learned geeks & archivist, who were its champions.
The treasure trove of esoteric and leftfield downtempo gems