SBG In Dub / B:Dum B:Dum Sound

B:Dum B:Dum Sound were / are a Mancunian trio, who in 1993 released a Midnight Express-sampling Balearic Beat favourite titled Istanbul.* Mysticisms then revived this in demand track as a dubplate in 2021. I’m not sure if the 3 friends, Jamie Crossley, Steve Gears and Karl McGinley, are still working together, but Crossley went onto collaborate with Brian Eno and Jah Wobble, and currently records as part of Shunt Voltage and Marconi Union. Something, however, has now surfaced from the B:Dum B:Dum archives, collected as SBG In Dub. The digital release containing 5, presumably 1990s recordings, plus a further 6 reworks and dubs. There are 3 takes on the song In No State, 2 of which are dub techno influenced. Buzzing, booming, body moving, riding, gliding on half-speed B-lines. full of flickering, fractured keys and circuitry twittering, singing like birds. The third, though, is scratchy post-punk funk. Borrowing Barney Sumner’s guitar and echoing both LCD Soundsystem and local heroes…