Dub Heavy - Hearts And Ghosts EP

As a seductive taster and spectral glimpse of the forthcoming King Midas Sound full length, ‘Dub Heavy - Hearts and Ghosts’ is an EP of three of that album’s tracks dubbed into new alien versions.

King Midas Sound is the duo of Kevin Martin, known for his groundbreaking work over the last decade as The Bug, teamed with Roger Robinson, reputed writer and spoken word performer. The pair first worked together in 2003 on The Bug’s Pressure album, but within these King Midas grooves, the visceral drive characteristic of The Bug’s fevered sound is replaced by deeper core energies, and graced with Robinson’s gentle soul lilt, the combination is blissfully, crushingly powerful.

On these tunes, song structure and vocal are intoxicated with unsettling fx and consumed with reverb, pressing the music into haunting and unfamiliar territory. I Dub marries booming bass and gaseous echo to grime hand-claps and a tense chilling melody. Centrepiece Ting Dub fuses ominous distant sirens, shifting vocal streams, decelerated hip hop boom bap and a geologic subsonic rumble into a wraith-like miasma, while on Too Long Dub, the sinister chiming pendulum motif and decaying vocals dissolve into a delirious haze of toxic audio reflections.