DBH-Music Reissues Back 2 Earth and Woolph Classics on Limited Clear Red Vinyl

Both sides of ONLY4 belong to the same man. "Warp One," credited to Back 2 Earth, and "UME2ME," credited to Woolph, are two separate aliases from the prolific catalogue of Phil Asher, the West London DJ and producer who passed away in January 2021. Frankfurt-based DBH-Music dropped the limited 12" clear red vinyl edition on April 2, pressing together two tracks that have circulated in deep house crates since the turn of the millennium.

"Warp One" first appeared on the Back 2 Earth Fin De Camin EP in 1999 on Laws Of Motion. "UME2ME" followed a year later on The Woolph EP in 2000 via Classic. Across those two years, Asher was operating at peak productivity under a staggering range of aliases, among them Restless Soul, Phlash, Blak 'N' Spanish, and Restless Soul, while also co-founding West London's Co-Op club and helping define what broken beat would become. The DBH-Music Bandcamp listing acknowledges the weight of the reissue directly: "Two classic tracks by Phil Asher who left us too early in the re-bound!"

For selectors building sets around dub-informed deep grooves and hypnotic low-end, both tracks hold up as practical tools as much as historical artefacts. "Warp One" carries the elongated, spacious structure of late-90s deep house, the kind of cut that opens a room rather than hammers it. "UME2ME" sits in similar territory, the Woolph alias allowing Asher to explore slightly more textured, minimal-adjacent territory than his more soulful Restless Soul work.

DBH Music Distribution GmbH has been operating out of Frankfurt since 2007, carving out a reputation as one of the more reliable vinyl distribution pipelines for underground club music. The ONLY4 release is available both as the limited clear red 12" and as a 16-bit/44.1kHz digital download via Bandcamp, which means the reissue functions equally well for DJs who want the physical wax and producers looking for a clean reference file.

Asher died on January 22, 2021, in Brighton, England. He had been active in London's dance music underground since his first DJ slot at Delirium in 1991 and left behind a discography that spans jazz, funk, soul, and nearly every groove-based corner of club music. Bringing "Warp One" and "UME2ME" back to market on a single slab of clear red vinyl is a small but pointed acknowledgment that his catalogue still belongs in active rotation, not just in memory.