Ghost Dubs

𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙁𝙞𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧'𝙨 '𝘿𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙙' 𝙇𝙋 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙞𝙭 𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙙𝙪𝙗𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙚, 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙍𝙝𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙢 & 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙.

It's no surprise that Fielder ended up on Kev Martin's PRESSURE imprint; the two producers share a fascination with dub's possibilities - the idea that you can emboss the sonic artifacts that elevated classic plates from Tubby and Mad Professor onto different templates. 'Damaged' was prime abstract dub, packed with even more bass weight, tightening the low-end and exciting the granulized layers of kaleidoscopic noise. On 'Extended Damaged Versions', Fiedler goes back to his stems and nudges them further into the blunt smoke, adding wetter, springier reverberations without deregulating the dancefloor momentum.

'The Regulator' is retooled into 'Dub Regulator', a bloodshot shuffle to the fridge that's enhanced with acidic bass stings, factory floor shavings and abyssal distortions, while 'Damaged' opener 'Chemical' gets a sinister, reverberating overhaul, its relentless kick lost in a fog of tape hiss, rattled chains and swirling tape echo. For the traditionalists, 'Soul Craft' takes a more formal shape on 'Dub Craft' trading its rhythm for a slow, Betke-like moan of busted pedal fuzz and snatched Tubby stabs, and Fiedler takes us down to the roach with 'Lobotomy Version', burying the rhythm with tweezed 'Enforcement' squelches.