Chab – The Dub Sessions

  • Published
    Feb 5, 2003
  • Words
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  • Label
    SHI014
  • Released
    February 2003
  • Genres
    Techno · House · Dub
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  • The Dub Sessions by Chab is quietly becoming a showstopper since appearing on Deep Dish’s Global Underground Moscow. Many DJs have included any of the below tracks in their charts and track listings for sets. Beware, the Dub Sessions have begun. Original Dub Deep, pulsating beats assist the ride into a subliminal affair of dubby baselines and synths. Ultra smooth and ultra slick with stabbing piano chords and low whooping bass sounds controlling the whole track. Cooler Dub Upping the beat and groove, which adapts more towards dance floors, the Cooler dub keeps the dubbiness and arrives more into house territory. The addition of sharper synth hooks and sounds give it more of dancing feeling. Electric Dub You may be thinking, a third dub, but the Electric dub does what the others can’t. Reaching towards electro sounding synths and bouncing beats, the whole feeling of the other dubs is lost immediately. But then the trademark baselines arrive bringing with it a fresh synth sound from the generic melody. Smith & Selway mix To round off a set of brillant dubs, Shinichi have been so generous in providing a thumping techno stormer from Christian Smith and John Selway. These boys add a ribbing percussion, multiple variations of the melody over-lapping each other perfectly and a driving and relentless beat. Danny Howells was so impressed he included it on his Essential mix late 2002.
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