Lisbon Dub Artist Air Warrior Releases Spiritual Vinyl Single Vishnu

The vinyl is already up. Aledan Air Warrior pressed "Vishnu" and its dub counterpart as AWR 107, dropped both on April 5, and made physical copies available for order through the artist's Bandcamp page at airwarrior.bandcamp.com/album/awr-107-vishnu, the same moment the digital went live. If you're running an analog deck and serious about new European dub, this is the one to move on today.

AWR 107 is not just a catalog number: it tells you everything about the seriousness of this operation. Air Warrior's discography stretches back through more than a hundred individually catalogued releases on the AWR imprint alone, a pace of output that rivals the most dedicated roots and dub producers active anywhere on the continent. The format is consistent across the catalog: main cut on the A-side, dub version on the B-side, limited physical pressing, direct order through the artist. AWR 107 holds that tradition: "Vishnu" vocal on one side, "Vishnu Dub" on the other. Classic sound-system architecture, built to hand a selector exactly what they need.

The title is not arbitrary. Vishnu, the Hindu deity associated with preservation, centers a production built around weight and space: sub-bass pressure, slow echo trails, and delay-saturated textures that are designed for a sound system stack rather than a studio monitor. This is deep steppers territory, spiritual in framing and heavy in execution. It sits precisely in the pocket that Lisbon's Dub Arena sound system targets on a dub night, and it is exactly the type of freshly minted 7" that selectors at those sessions pull from the sleeve before the crowd has a chance to read the label.

Aledan Air Warrior recorded and mastered the release at the Air Warrior Studio in Lisbon, consistent with the label's established small-studio approach. Previous AWR pressings have appeared in 6", 7", and 8" limited editions across multiple series. AWR 107 sits within the main imprint, which makes it the more sought-after entry for collectors building a complete run of the catalog. The pressing size has not been formally announced, but Air Warrior's vinyl runs carry "limited edition" status across the board, and a catalog moving at this frequency does not leave new numbers on the shelf for long.

Digital streaming and downloads are live now on Bandcamp. Physical orders go through the same page. The transnational nature of the release - a European producer working deep inside the Jamaican dub idiom from a Lisbon studio - adds another layer for collectors who track how the form travels. AWR 107 is evidence it travels well.