Damaged Ghost Dubs SKU: PRESH024 Barcode: 5056321696755 29.00 £29.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Pressure Released Date: 16th August 2024 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “If David Lynch had ever been driven to dub, it might well have sounded like this…an early contender for the best of the year” – The Wire Magazine Ghost Dubs, real name Michael Fiedler, aka Jah Schulz, announces a rebirth with ‘Damaged’, his first album for The Bug’s PRESSURE label. Having recently dropped two criminally overlooked, experimental dub LPs, with his ‘Dub Over Science’ series, the German producer/bass specialist, now stretches his own parameters of outwardness still further, with these twelve fresh explorations of dub deviance. For those who feel the fusion of dub techno and ambient drone had creatively ended with the demise of the short lived, Berlin based Chain Reaction label. Ghost Dubs now upgrades and extends that legendary blueprint’s abstract methodology even further and deeper, floating away upon a wonderfully warm sea of hiss and static bliss. This is dub so atomized that it disintegrates within your eardrums. Its music, where the machines take over and virtually all traces of humanity are erased. But thankfully, the warmest soul still oozes seductively from the pores of Fiedler’s robo riddims. Relentlessly hypnotic, seriously sedated, ‘Damaged’ celebrates the point of departure within its mesmerising low-end grooves. Album opener ‘Chemical’, provides an opiated slo-mo skank, which sounds like Plastikman’s ‘Consumed’ era pulsations drenched heavily in sub aquatic fx. A triumph of surface noise surfing and sub-woofer testing relentlessness, it provides the perfect intro to this compellingly immersive album. For batty shakers and headtrippers alike, there’s added thrills aplenty, as Ghost Dub’s richter scale tremor rhythms remain impressively massive, and the atmospheric depths of ‘Damaged’ appear tantalisingly oceanic. Throughout the duration of the dreamy selection, there is an obsessive balance of bewitching ambience and heavyweight bassbin shaking. The lead single ‘Thin Line’ itself provides a missing link between African Headcharge’s early percussive body probes and Rhythm & Sound’s addictive radiance, with the slightest hint of Burial’s doomed romantic hauntology added for good taste. Alternately, and no less gracefully, ‘Dub Lobotomy’ bizarrely resembles Miles Davis ‘Get Up with it’ chopped, screwed, and relocated to a futuristic Kingston Town. Impressive indeed, Fiedler’s mastery of live dubbing on his mixing desk shines accross the duration, and gives the album an improvised edge, and sense of peripheral chaos. Elsewhere, spooked steppers (‘Hot Wired’), haunting house (‘True to life’) and 4th World psychogeography (‘Undone’), combine to ensure there is a forever changing mixture of flavours percolating within the admirable consistency of the overall sound. With a tip of the cap, and nod of the head to Pole (‘Second Thoughts’), it’s no surprise then that PRESSURE would then turn to the great, Berlin based producer Stefan Betke, to master/cut this collection at his infamous Scape mastering room. And a fine job he did too, as high quality sound and levels are definitely maintained throughout. If you like your melodies submerged, your dub narcotic, your basslines obese, and your beats evaporating, ‘Damaged’ provides the perfect prescription and entry point into Ghost Dub’s spectral soundworld. FFO: Pole, Rhythm & Sound, Mika Vainio Artist Ghost Dubs Genre Reggae / Dub / Ska Label Pressure Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Chemical The Regulator Dub Lobotomy Hot Wired Thin Line Second Thoughts True to Life Dub Battle Soul Craft Undone Dub Simulation Circles / Lines Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Reggae / Dub / Ska View Product Quick View Winston Jarrett & The Righteous Flames Jonestown Reggae / Dub / Ska | Omnivore Recordings | 1LP Released 11th December 2020 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Winston Jarrett & The Righteous Flames Jonestown £18.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Omnivore Recordings SKU: OVLP289 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th December 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hugh Mundell Jah Fire Reggae / Dub / Ska | Greensleeves | 1LP Released 10th August 2018 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hugh Mundell Jah Fire £14.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Greensleeves SKU: 0054645700511 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Skatalites, The Essential Artist Collection – The Skatalites Reggae / Dub / Ska | Trojan | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 20th January 2023 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Skatalites, The Essential Artist Collection – The Skatalites £30.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Trojan SKU: 4050538842968 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 20th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Justin Hines & The Dominoes Jezebel Reggae / Dub / Ska | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 27th September 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Justin Hines & The Dominoes Jezebel £22.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2470 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th September 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Specials, The Encore Reggae / Dub / Ska | UMC | 1LP Released 30th January 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Specials, The Encore £18.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: UMC SKU: 7721103 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Adrian Sherwood Survival & Resistance Reggae / Dub / Ska | On U Sound | 2LP Released 17th August 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adrian Sherwood Survival & Resistance £16.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: On U Sound SKU: ONULP1022 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 17th August 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Heptones, The Party Time Reggae / Dub / Ska | Back To Black | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th July 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Heptones, The Party Time £14.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Back To Black SKU: 5342970 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Holt Memories By The Score Reggae / Dub / Ska | VP | 2LP Released 24th June 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John Holt Memories By The Score £16.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: VP SKU: 0054645257114 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 24th June 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Marley Selassie Is The Chapel Reggae / Dub / Ska | Jad Records | 7", Single Released 8th December 2023 £11.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bob Marley Selassie Is The Chapel £11.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Jad Records SKU: SMAV935 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 8th December 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Horace Andy Who Say Reggae / Dub / Ska | Kingston Sounds | 1LP Released 11th March 2022 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Horace Andy Who Say £15.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Kingston Sounds SKU: KSLP041 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Reggae / Dub / Ska Start again
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