Ghost Dubs - Extended Damaged Versions (2025) [Hi-Res]

Those sought-after Versions from that massive Ghost Dubs album finally come to wax, deploying a deadly half hour steppers special tipped if yr 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.

Tracklist:
1-1 Ghost Dubs - Dub Regulator [4:47]
1-2 Ghost Dubs - Wired Version [4:13]
1-3 Ghost Dubs - Thin Dub [5:48]
1-4 Ghost Dubs - Chemical Version [5:54]
1-5 Ghost Dubs - Dub Craft [2:23]
1-6 Ghost Dubs - Lobotomy Version [5:10]