View basket “1000 Volts Of Holt” has been added to your basket. 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 Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents Harmony, Melody & Style Volume 1 Reggae / Dub / Ska | Soul Jazz | 180g, 2LP Released 26th March 2012 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents Harmony, Melody & Style Volume 1 £14.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Soul Jazz SKU: SJRLP2531 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 26th March 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alborosie Destiny Reggae / Dub / Ska | Greensleeves | 1LP Released 26th May 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alborosie Destiny £23.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Greensleeves SKU: VPGSRL7094 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View New Age Steppers New Age Steppers Reggae / Dub / Ska | On U Sound | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 19th March 2021 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders New Age Steppers New Age Steppers £19.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: On U Sound SKU: ONULP1 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 19th March 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Marley & The Wailers Legend ( Picture Disc) Reggae / Dub / Ska | Island | 1LP, Picture Disc Released 24th July 2020 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Marley & The Wailers Legend ( Picture Disc) £26.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Island SKU: 5391148 Formats: 1LP, Picture Disc Released Date: 24th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bunny "Striker" Lee & Friends Next Cut! 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