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"No less deep, in fact debatably deeper still, Ghost Dubs aka Michael Fiedler returns after the runaway success of his highly acclaimed 'Damaged' LP('Dub/Reggae album of the year' for 2024 in The Wire Magazine), with 'Extended Damaged Versions'. Six dubbed out reworks of tracks from last year's album, deconstructed by the man himself, again for The Bug's Pressure label.

(Note - Only two mixes have been previously available digitally, 'Chemical Version' and the haunting steppa 'Wired Version'). 

Kickin off with the irresistible seismic grind of 'Dub Regulator', a dancefloor driven beast that miraculously eclipses the original mix, the opening cut increases in weight and intensity seductively, upping the fx drenched madness with its incessant droid hypnotics. The mini album's mutant dub techno relentlessly probes, stretches and disfigures all of the previous originals, version by version, on this fascinating follow up release to 'Damaged'. As Fiedler surgically splices and dices his own original source material into successively more warped variants, gleefully atomizing the originals into molten space echo fragments.

'Thin Dub' is a masterclass in simultaneous saturation and evaporation, wilfully liquified in the heart of the echo chamber. Anyone already smitten by 'Damaged'(ie Pole, JK Flesh, Echospace, Valentina Magaletti etc have all graciously, recently acknowledged its greatness), will definitely find further reverb drenched nourishment on 'Chemical Version', which releases a whirlpool of heavily sedated delay trails, and ends up sounding like a wall of sound mirage, vaguely resembling prime Porter Ricks at their sub aquatic peak.

Finally, the ambient pulsations of 'Lobotomy Version' sets the album adrift in deepest space, as this superbly crafted collection reflects Michael Fiedler doing what he does best, getting lost in his own mixing desk sorcery, whilst reflecting the captivating morphology of his live shows, where he magically revamps his heavyweight tracks into pure voodoo, casting spells effortlessly.

Not an attempt to just milk 'Damaged', 'EDV' is itself a standalone triumph, an invaluable transformation of the original album's material into an epic, fresh, dub odyssey. — (via Label)

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Last year's album “Damaged” (Pressure) by Ghost Dubs (alias Michael Fiedler, alias Jah Schulz) has already ventured deep into the boundaries of the genre. Now, with “Extended Damaged Versions”, the – er – Dub Version of “Damaged” has been released. According to the title, it literally means “extended versions of the damage” – that doesn’t bode well. There were already voices describing Fiedler’s music as “studio test sounds” when it came to “Damaged”. I would specify that it was specifically a test of the membrane vibration depth of subwoofer scoops. But seriously: The music of Ghost Dub is strictly speaking a reinterpretation of the sounds of Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound from the early 2000s, which at that time represented the area of ​​tension between minimal techno and Dub Compared to “Damaged”, Mr. Ghost Dubs in the “Damaged Versions” the typical shuffle pattern of the original, challenges the listening habits even further, turns the bass even more and makes the music even more abstract, even darker, even more evil.

The essence of this album lies in the complete devotion to the mixer as an instrument, to the principle of sonic deconstruction. Fiedler chops up his own tracks, transforms them into new structures that seem fragmentary but by no means incoherent. The final “Lobotomy Version” in particular shows that this is not just Dub produced, but rather a kind of sonic ritual took place - a hypnotic, ambient descent into the deepest regions of the bass abyss. — (via Dub Blog)

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Those sought-after versions from that massive Ghost Dubs album finally come to wax, deploying a deadly half hour steppers special tipped if you are anywhere on the dial from Tubby to Burial Mix, Pole to Deepchord.

Ghost Dubs and label boss Kev Martin share a fascination with dub's possibilities - the idea that you can emboss the sonic artefacts that elevated classic plates from Tubby and Mad Professor onto different templates. That ‘Damaged' album released late last year was a prime example of the form, packed to the rafters with extreme bass weight and layers of kaleidoscopic tape hiss. On 'Extended Damaged Versions', Fiedler revisits those dubs and pushes them further into blunt smoke, adding springier reverberations without degrading the dancefloor momentum.

'The Regulator' is retooled into 'Dub Regulator', a bloodshot shuffle enhanced with bass stings and abyssal distortions, while ''Chemical' gets a sinister overhaul, its relentless kick lost in a fog of rattled chains and tape echo. For the traditionalists, 'Soul Craft' takes a more formal shape on 'Dub Craft' trading its rhythm for a slow, Pole-like fritz of pedal fuzz and snatched Tubby stabs, taking us down to the roach with 'Lobotomy Version', burying the rhythm in a full narcotic haze.

Heavy. 

— (via Boomkat)

Vinyl Tracklist
A1 Dub Regulator 04:46
A2 Wired Version 04:13
A3 Thin Dub 05:47
B1 Chemical Version 05:53
B2 Dub Craft 02:23
B3 Lobotomy Version 05:10

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Label: Pressure
Format: Vinyl, 12", EP
Released: 2025
Genre: Electronic
Style: Noise, Industrial, Dub Techno

File under: House // Electro // Techno
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