Paul “Mudd” Murphy’s latest E.P. focuses on Eighty-Three, one of the highlights from his recent LP, In The Garden Of Mindfulness. He’s singled out the song – something I compared to Tullio De Piscopo’s Stop Bajon – for a trio of dub workouts, performed by the Idjut Boys’ Conrad McDonnell. Created on a desk called “Dotty”, who according to Conrad is “A good sort who loves to be messed around with”, the versions all have something slightly different to offer. While the OG struts its stuff at a sloooow 65 BPM, the gravity-free moonwalk of Le Cidre Dub still comes as a bit of a shock. Opening with the briefest glimpse of glissandi, we’re suddenly dropped into the path of scattered, shattered details, that quietly, but dramatically rush by within the bass vacuum, like a passing particle shower. Conrad keeps the original clipped funk / rock lick, but swaps the jazz for cosmic and chunky.

On his Uppity Dub the B-line belches in more of a boogie manner. Electro frequencies flicker and fidget, the breakdown is way bigger, and the end effect is aurally akin to Mudd’s label mate The Emperor Machine’s marvellous marriage of `70s analogue kosmische and `80s plugged-in / switched on disco. There’s a touch of Will Powers’ Adventures In Success and The Compass Point All-Stars in its groove.

Conrad and Dotty’s final fling, the Uppity Again Dub, finds them stripping back / off everything. Concentrating on the kick and delayed percussion, before teasing, twirling tiny tastes of pretty chimes and echoed piano. Sneakily, craftily climbing to a gentle feelgood crescendo.

Conrad McDonnell’s dubs of Mudd’s Eighty-Three can be ordered directly from Claremont 56. Rumour has it that there’s a full dub album on the way.