View basket “Mister Yellowman” 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 Easy Star All Stars Dubber Side Of The Moon Reggae / Dub / Ska | Easy Star | 1LP Released 29th October 2010 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Easy Star All Stars Dubber Side Of The Moon £17.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Easy Star SKU: ES1023V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th October 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Selecter, The Daylight Reggae / Dub / Ska | DMF Music | 1LP Released 6th October 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Selecter, The Daylight £19.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: DMF Music SKU: DMF118LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Aswad Live In London Reggae / Dub / Ska | SMC Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 30th August 2024 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Aswad Live In London £19.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: SMC Records SKU: SMCRX001LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 30th August 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters Chapter One Dub Reggae / Dub / Ska | Clocktower | 10", 3LP Released 20th November 2014 £42.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters Chapter One Dub £42.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Clocktower SKU: CT114-10 Formats: 10", 3LP Released Date: 20th November 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Freddie McGregor Big Ship Reggae / Dub / Ska | Greensleeves | 1LP Released 3rd February 2014 £10.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Freddie McGregor Big Ship £10.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Greensleeves SKU: GREL39 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View African Head Charge My Life In A Hole In The Ground Reggae / Dub / Ska | On U Sound | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 22nd January 2016 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders African Head Charge My Life In A Hole In The Ground £18.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: On U Sound SKU: ONULP13 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd January 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Rockers Reggae / Dub / Ska | Soul Jazz | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th May 2022 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Soul Jazz Records Presents Studio One Rockers £26.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Soul Jazz SKU: SJRLP451-BLK Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bob Marley & The Wailers Burnin’ (Original Jamaican Version, Limited Numbered Edition) Reggae / Dub / Ska | Tuff Gong | 180g, 1LP Released 24th March 2023 £34.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bob Marley & The Wailers Burnin’ (Original Jamaican Version, Limited Numbered Edition) £34.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Tuff Gong SKU: ATFG 90101 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 24th March 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Ziggy Marley Wild And Free Reggae / Dub / Ska | Benelux | 1LP Released 16th June 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ziggy Marley Wild And Free £17.00 Genre: Reggae / Dub / Ska Label: Benelux SKU: TGW0007 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th June 2014 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 See more in Reggae / Dub / Ska Start again
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