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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbum 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lead single 'Thin Line' itself provides a missing link between African Headcharge's early percussive body probes and Rhythm \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pressure","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50382040662347,"sku":"2209330","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c1221015-c341-9322-58b1-66a34f197492_1d811ba6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726240587"},{"product_id":"extended-damaged-versions","title":"Extended Damaged Versions","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo less deep, in fact debatably deeper still, \u003cstrong\u003eGhost Dubs\u003c\/strong\u003e aka Michael Fiedler returns after the runaway success of his highly acclaimed \u003cem\u003eDamaged\u003c\/em\u003e 2LP, with \u003cem\u003eExtended Damaged Versions\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix dubbed out reworks of tracks from last year's album, deconstructed by the man himself, again for The Bug's Pressure label. Kicking off with the irresistible seismic grind of \"\u003cem\u003eDub Regulator\u003c\/em\u003e\", 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 '\u003cem\u003eDamaged\u003c\/em\u003e'. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Thin Dub' is a masterclass in simultaneous saturation and evaporation, wilfully liquified in the heart of the echo chamber. 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