Tiny Listens #28 (Ghost Dubs - Thin Line)
Ghost Dubs - Thin Line
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TINY LISTENS 0028 • September 30, 2024
Ghost Dubs - Thin Line
Apologies for the late send on this one… life amiright 🥴?
There is a quality contained in modern dub-infused electronic music that resonates deeply with the concept of hauntology. Absence, ghostly outlines, reverb fading in time. Layers of new soundscapes built atop echoes of older, lost futures and a broken present. The emphasis on analog warmth, tape hiss, and murky reverb trails all conjure a sense of nostalgia for what could have been. Using repetition, delay, and deep bass, they create a sound that feels simultaneously futuristic and lost in time—perfectly encapsulating hauntology's focus on the interplay between memory, technology, and the lingering presence of cultural artifacts which never fully materialized.
Tracing the city skyline as it dissolves into fog—Ghost Dubs' Thin Line follows this ghostly quality.
Ghost Dubs is a musical project that merges elements of reggae, dub techno, post-dubstep and some industrial / experimental sounds. Their latest album, "Damaged," is a deep exploration of dub sounds with a mechanical, vintage feel with nods to influences like King Tubby, African Head Charge and Rhythm & Sound. Thin Line is nod to a more traditional dub reggae style-a thunderous bassline, a lilting skank and spacious delay and a sense of of the track seems on the verge of falling apart. It's a portal to dub's past, creating a listening experience where every echo tells a story and every bass drop is a reminder of the roots that haunt the present.
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