I Need a Surgeon

I seem to have developed a Dub blockage recently. I’m going to the Dub Surgeon to have the problem removed.

Do not confuse Dub Surgeon with the project with which Brit Tony Child has been testing the reinforced concrete of night clubs for years. We are talking here about the transatlantic variant, brainchild of the American nomad Jay Haze. Apart from Dub Surgeon he also calls himself
Fuckpony & The Architect.

Over 20 years ago, Dub Surgeon crafted an album entitled The Lost Future fusing his love of dub music with found sounds. He created an ambient space hard driven by horizontal rhythms. The Lost Future was recorded at the former Amsterdam Film Academy led by the recording engineer Ricardo Villalobos. Together, Dub Surgeon & Ricardo Villalobos mastered the album together. They put it through several vintage mixers then recorded it onto 2" tape. On one frightful night, a storm ignited a fire at the studio. As a result, the master copy was thought to have been lost forever.

Shortly after the fire, it appeared that the non de musique Dub Surgeon had faded into the shadows, after only 2 EPs on his now defunct record label Future Dub. 15 years later, Dub Surgeon received a demo of The Lost Future which brought his music back to him after all these years.  "Listen to this," it said.

Attached was a demo version of the long lost album which now, finally, has found a home on Dubai's Ark to Ashes imprint, so named in homage to the story of Lee "Scratch" Perry burning down his Black Ark studio to rid it of demons.

Newly mastered by Rashad Becker & sounding as fresh as ever, The Lost Future is an authentic dub experience with a story as special as the music itself. & if you believe this, would you like to buy a bridge?

Dub Surgeon - The Lost Future 2xLP, Ark to Ashes ARK006, 2018.

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Side A -
Untitled Dub 1
Untitled Dub 2
Untitled Dub 3

Side B -
Untitled Dub 4
Untitled Dub 5
Untitled Dub 6

Side C -
Untitled Dub 7
Untitled Dub 8
Untitled Dub 9
Untitled Dub 10

Side D -
Untitled Dub 11
Untitled Dub 12
Untitled Dub 13

Enjoy,
NØ