The current position looks settled. A coherent studio signature meets control over the final mile of delivery. When Toroki's low wave meets the grain of Isayah's voice, it is nothing short of a recalibration of mood and space.

The longevity of Word Sound & Power is grounded in practical theology, craft, discipline, and transmission. The stack rolls in, the control tower lights up, and the room is reorganised around pressure, clarity, and message.

South African sound system culture germinated in the pressure cooker of the townships, learning to survive under scarcity and speak confidently without surrendering its accent. Stacks and scoops build roving rooms for gathering, teaching, grieving, feeding, remembering.

If you want to trace the bloodline of UK bass culture, from blues dances and sound clashes to jungle, dubstep and the 2010s warehouse revival, follow the Channel One Sound System story. Run by selector Michael “Mikey Dread” Letts, this London institution stands as both keeper of the roots and a ritual for the community.

Summerhills is a counter-proposal far from the main circuit’s corporate choreography. Instead of a fenced-off field ringed with logos, you get four days on a ridge above the Maramureș village of Durușa, where the main stage is a reclaimed barn and the sky is dark enough to count satellites. The festival’s own page keeps the message spare—August 21–24, 2025, #11 edition; camping, cinema, yoga, a kids’ area, food and drinks, “good coffee,” even a “panorama shower”—and that editorial restraint is the thesis.

Purelink’s sophomore album, Faith, is ambient music as a ritual of quiet radicalism, reshaping both emotional and sonic terrain through collective intimacy and orchestrated subtlety. Comprising Tommy Paslaski (Concave Reflection), Ben Paulson (kindtree), and Akeem Asani (Millia), the trio relocated mid-process from Chicago to New York—a geographic shift that is vividly imprinted in the album’s textures and moods.

We closes the year with an big lineup bringing the renown duo Indica Dubs and Danman, and the bass music producer Bukkha in the same session. December 27

With a hidden lineup for now, Black Rhino Radio pins the date on November 19 for its upcoming residency in Club Control, but you can rest assured the music will follow the journey into sound system culture.

Black Rhino Radio moves forward with the second residency at Club Control on October 18, this time inviting Kebra Ethiopia all the way from South Africa.

On September 27, we bring back to Bucharest the renowned Channel One Sound System, one of the UK's most prestigious roots and dub sounds.

As the new club season starts, we are hyped to announce our forthcoming residencies at Club Control. While these sessions are rooted in dub and bass music, we continue to collaborate with our friends from Riddim Bandits, who will amplify each session with their fresh, upgraded 6-scoop sound system, built to emphasise low frequencies while bringing clarity and spark to the mids and highs.

The 18th instalment of Black Rhino Residency at Control comes in full force on April 19, mixing the sound pressure of dub with the uptempo energy of jungle music.