Elastica Dub 🇮🇹 & Stroboman 🇮🇹 – Double Pulse Featuring Gabriel Blue, Isha Bel 🇯🇲 & MC Dada Dubophonic Records 🇨🇾 — DUB103 Reggae / Roots Reggae / Dub Review by Infectious Unease Radio / Subterranean Zone Radio — Voice In The Void Written by Gordon Lawrence Taylor
Review by Infectious Unease Radio / Subterranean Zone Radio — Voice In The Void Written by Gordon Lawrence Taylor
Double Pulse by Elastica Dub & Stroboman is a deep two-track dub transmission released through Dubophonic Records, carrying the weight, warmth, and spiritual pressure of roots reggae, dubwise production, and conscious sound system culture. Released on 17 April 2026, the single sits firmly in the world of Reggae / Roots Reggae / Dub, but it moves with more than just rhythm. It carries thought, resistance, reflection, and presence. The release is listed as Cat. Nr: DUB103 and described by Dubophonic as a work exploring awareness, control, liberation, bass, space, and conscious sound.
This is dub as message and movement. One side looks inward, questioning illusion, consumerism, control, and the systems that shape modern life. The other side opens into the present moment, into resilience, voice, vibration, and the need to remain spiritually awake while the world keeps trying to pull people into sleep. Dubophonic’s own release notes describe Double Pulse as balancing “reflection and vibration,” with one pulse questioning the system and the other reclaiming the present.
Track Listing
1. Elastica Dub ft. Gabriel Blue – “Fade Away” — 04:19 2. Elastica Dub & Stroboman ft. Isha Bel & MC Dada – “Live in the Moment” — 04:07
Country / Label Details
Elastica Dub — Italy 🇮🇹 Stroboman — Italy 🇮🇹 Isha Bel — Jamaica 🇯🇲 MC Dada — Jamaica 🇯🇲 / Jamaican sound system connection Dubophonic Records — Cyprus 🇨🇾
The Bandcamp release tags list Italy, Jamaica, and Cyprus, and the official Dubophonic page also tags the release with Italy and Jamaica. Dubophonic Records is based in Cyprus and describes itself as a label producing, promoting, and distributing quality dub music from passionate artists.
Review
The opening track, “Fade Away,” brings Elastica Dub together again with Gabriel Blue, and the result is hypnotic, smoky, spacious, and quietly powerful. This is not dub built only for the body. It is dub built for the mind. The bassline moves like a heavy shadow under the track, steady and controlled, while the delays and reverbs stretch the song outward into a deeper emotional space.
There is a beautiful sense of disillusion inside “Fade Away.” It feels like a song looking at the modern world and seeing through the tricks — the noise, the false promises, the consumer dream, the pressure to belong to systems that slowly drain the spirit. Yet the track does not collapse into despair. It resists. It breathes. It holds its ground. Gabriel Blue’s presence gives the track a human centre, while Elastica Dub shapes the atmosphere around the voice with patience and depth.
The production has that proper dub intelligence: nothing feels rushed, nothing is overcrowded, and every sound is allowed to echo into its own corner of the room. The groove is meditative but not passive. It pulls you inward, but the low end keeps the body connected. It is deep listening music, but it would also live beautifully through a full sound system where the bass can open properly and physically move through the chest.
The second track, “Live in the Moment,” shifts the energy while keeping the spiritual weight of the release intact. Produced by Stroboman and Elastica Dub, and featuring Isha Bel alongside MC Dada, this track is more direct in its message. It is rooted in sound system culture, but it carries a clear emotional and spiritual call: stay present, stay awake, stay grounded, and do not let the machinery of the world take your soul away.
Isha Bel’s vocal presence brings warmth and strength. There is a roots feeling here, a lived feeling, a voice connected to resilience rather than performance alone. MC Dada adds that sound system edge, bringing movement and spoken force into the track. Together, the voices turn the song into something communal — not just a recording, but a message being sent across the speakers to anyone willing to listen.
The rhythm on “Live in the Moment” has a stronger physical pulse. The low-end pressure is deep, the dub space is wide, and the arrangement has that beautiful balance between groove and emptiness. The best dub understands silence as much as sound, and this track uses space well. The echoes do not simply decorate the mix; they become part of the message. They make the words travel. They make the rhythm breathe.
As a release, Double Pulse works because the two tracks speak to each other. “Fade Away” is the inward pulse — the questioning, the disillusion, the search for freedom beneath the surface of modern life. “Live in the Moment” is the outward pulse — the reminder to stand present, to move, to feel, to reconnect with the now. One track opens the wound; the other offers movement through it.
This is the strength of Double Pulse: it does not treat dub as nostalgia or background sound. It uses dub as a living language. Bass becomes memory. Echo becomes resistance. Space becomes thought. Voice becomes survival. In a world where everything is loud, fast, false, and disposable, Double Pulse slows the listener down and asks them to feel again.
For followers of roots reggae, dub, conscious sound system culture, and deep atmospheric bass music, this is a release worth spending time with. It is warm, spacious, reflective, and grounded in message. It carries the old spirit of dub while still feeling present, alive, and necessary.
Elastica Dub & Stroboman have created a release that feels like two heartbeats inside the same body — one questioning the system, the other calling the soul back into the present moment.
