View basket “Burnin’ (Original Jamaican Version, Limited Numbered Edition)” 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 Tommy McCook & The Supersonics Pleasure Dub Reggae / Dub / Ska | Pressure Sounds | 1LP Released 23rd November 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tommy McCook & The Supersonics Pleasure Dub £16.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Pressure Sounds SKU: PSLP0063 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd November 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Junior Marvin Happy Family Reggae / Dub / Ska | Flatiron Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th April 2024 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Junior Marvin Happy Family £25.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Flatiron Recordings SKU: FLAT2010 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Michael Prophet Righteous Are the Conqueror Reggae / Dub / Ska | Greensleeves | 1LP Released 12th May 2014 £9.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Prophet Righteous Are the Conqueror £9.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Greensleeves SKU: GREL18 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jah Cure The Cure Reggae / Dub / Ska | VP Records | 1LP Released 10th July 2015 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jah Cure The Cure £10.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: VP Records SKU: 0054645258111 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th July 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Story Reggae / Dub / Ska | Soul Jazz | 2LP Released 1st August 2011 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Story £18.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Soul Jazz SKU: SJRLPDVD68PAL Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st August 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Marley In Dub Vol. 1 Reggae / Dub / Ska | UMC | 1LP Released 17th October 2012 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bob Marley In Dub Vol. 1 £19.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: UMC SKU: 5339164 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Specials, The Ghost Town [40th Anniversary Half Speed Master] Reggae / Dub / Ska | Chrysalis | 12", 7", Single Released 4th June 2021 £ Select options Specials, The Ghost Town [40th Anniversary Half Speed Master] £ Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Chrysalis Formats: 12", 7", Single Released Date: 4th June 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari Tales Of Mozambique Reggae / Dub / Ska | Soul Jazz | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th January 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari Tales Of Mozambique £28.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Soul Jazz SKU: SJRLP325C Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th January 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Sound Reggae / Dub / Ska | Soul Jazz | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 30th April 2012 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Sound £15.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Soul Jazz SKU: SJRLP256 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 30th April 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joe Higgs Life Of Contradiction Reggae / Dub / Ska | Pressure Sounds | 1LP Released 23rd November 2012 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joe Higgs Life Of Contradiction £16.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Pressure Sounds SKU: PSLP58 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 23rd November 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Reggae / Dub / Ska Start again
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