Review: Rockers Hi-Fi - Mish Mash with 'Now I Deliver' (BiggaBush Versions) (!K7 Records)

Whether it's Lightning Head, Studio Don, BiggaBush or as a co-founder of seminal Rockers Hi-FI, Glyn 'Bigga' Bush is full of electronic  dub/funk/dancehall/boogie to keep us rockin' to Hi-Fi soundsystem sounds with an re-released album 'Mish Mash' with 3 new versions of 'Now I Deliver' by Glyn himself.

Hard to believe that Rocker's Hi-Fi exploded in 1995 with the album 'Rockers To Rockers' on 4th & Broadway with tracks like the classic  'Push Push' and 'What A Life?' [Ed. I've got my copy signed by Glyn].  And whilst Glyn and Dick Whittingham formed in RHF in Birmingham, this and their other collaborations including AirGoose and Original Rockers were more dub and reggae focused than those Black Sabbath rockers.

And with the recent Ozzy revival, just as good a time as any to re-check their follow up album from 1996, 'Mish Mash'.  Originally released as a 17 track triple LP (Ed. did these guys think they were Yes?) it got picked up by WEA for its international release after the original home studio got an upgrade with new dubness in their sound along with, who was to become an almost Rockers ever present, Farda P and a 'new' Mellotron; plus a load of cleared samples.

And the album's title came from this mix of sample all this and more. Rockers Hi-Fi were one of the orignal multi-genre sounds led by tracks like 'Going Under' (featuring Farda P) and 'Now I Deliver' with it's 'Orignal Rockers Hi Fi' rap by Phoebe One.

And just to prove how a head of the genre-fluid game they were, also on the album is a "re-imagined" version of 'Ghetto Defendant' by punk royalty, The Clash as 'Queen Of The Ghetto'.  The mix of dub-poetry, dnb and trip-hop was so far from punk (as The Clash themselves developed) with the Rockers' forming primordial dubstep soup you might say?

The re-issued album comes with 3 BiggaBush versions of 'Now I Deliver' (original, extended and instrumenal) and that you can get a taste of as the single released today (see below).

P.S.  For other BiggaBush info, check out our exclusive interview HERE and the review of 'A Different Style EP' (see HERE) that includes the Hectic Extend'ed version of 'This River'.

BUY LINK: Mish Mash | Rockers Hi-Fi | !K7 Records

Artist: Rockers Hi-Fi
Title: Mish Mash with Bonus Tracks of 'Now I Deliver' (BiggaBush Versions) 
Release date: 9th July, 2025
Label : !K7
Catalog Number : TBC
Format: Digital / Bandcamp 

Review: Biggabush - A Different Style EP (Tru Thoughts Recordings)

After our recent interview with Glyn 'Biggabush' Bush - he of Rocker's Hi-fi, Studio Don, Lightning Head, MDO, the black Albumen and half of The Dandelion Set - here's the long awaited follow-up EP to last year's fantastic 'BiggaBush Freevisited' - 'A Different Style'.

Now, you might be thinking that that is odd that there needs a 'different style' for a Biggabush as he's a master of so many styles but as he says, "The thing I love about a good remix is that it references the original track but adds the remixers stamp and style in a respectful way that enhances the song and takes it off in new directions that I would never have thought of".

And we certainly love these styles as it's introduced us to four new 'followers' of the Biggabush set.

Sentinel 793 certainly has a lot of dub/reggae/afrobeat in his bruk and it's quite stripped back but not at all naked.  At the other extreme Robot Riddims has put 'Black Swan Revival' through his 8-bit noise conveyer belt system and it's all pretty minimal .

Then James Hayford makes an appearance as with his 'Shoes' monika for the appropriately entitled 'Sole Sister' track. 

Bigga has been such a Studio Don and Lighting Head of dub for so long, rising to the dub on 'Real & Regal' with his mate Farda P who sounds so deep and resonant; it must be weird having such a great voice as Farda P when he's doing everyday conversations.

And at the furtherest extreme of all, I'd never thought I'd be lucky enough to re-edit the most euphoric track from the album, 'This River' (now with vocals by the incredible Jackie 'sounds like Ella' Walters) as Glyn and I walk along the River Stour's towpath in both our adopted county of Dorset, hand-in-hand (metaphorically of course).

We might think of Glyn as the Dr. Who of dub, instrumental hip-hop, ambient dub, electro, deep house, prog rock as he free-from-ed 'Free' into 'Freevisited' (so clever eh!) and now with another different style, who knows, with all the references to 'God' on the 'This River' track, there's a remote chance that it might be No. 1 at Christmas! 

See full YATM interview HERE.

Artist: Biggabush

Title: A Different Style EP

Release date: 6th December, 2022

Label : Tru-Thoughts

Catalog Number : Digital / JunoDownload / Traxsource / Bandcamp

1		The River (Sentinel 679 Runs Deep Version)                                                      7:02    Featuring - Jackie Walters
2		Black Swan Revival (Robot Riddims Hurting A Different Style Remix)                4:56 Featuring - Farda P, Jackie Walters
3		Illegal Rising Dub (Biggabush Remix)                                                                 7:08 Featuring - Farda P
4		Sole Sister (James Hayford Shoes Remix)                                                         7:01
5		This River (Gerry Hectic’s River Stour Towpath Extension)                              13:56 Featuring - Jackie Walters
6		The River (Sentinel 679 Remix Instrumental)                                                     7:02
7		Black Swan Revival (Robot Riddims Hurting A Different Style Instrumental)      4:55
8		Illegal Rising Dub (Instrumental) (Biggabush Remix)                                          7:08