Spiritual World, those Canadian creators / purveyors of prime leftfield bass, take their first steps into the realm of reissues. The imprint’s forthcoming 12 rescues two tracks from the back catalogue of Bath-based collective, The Ullulators. Part of the rotating assembly of singers and players in the orbit of psychedelic, free festival veterans and favourites, Ozric Tentacles, the line-up also includes members of that outfit’s Star Trek-referencing electronic offshoot, Eat Static. Both tunes are lifted from self-released cassettes, originally available at the band’s gigs 30 years ago. 

Simply Conscious Dub, from the album Beyond The Gates Of Ull, opens with an eruption of echoed Rasta. Starting out stripped back, as a deep, growling, meditative groove, all steady snares and delayed brass fanfares, it slowly draws the listener in as the manhandling of mixing desk controls gets more extravagant. Introducing trippy vocal effects and relaxing, ringing guitar, most certainly stoned, it falls into phasing before releasing some jaunty skanking keys, and then collapses in the fireworks of a final fucked with cymbal crash. 

In contrast, on the flip, Eternal Now, from Share A Clam With The Ullulators, is way more “ambient house” than dub. Much more The Orb than their roots WAH! Mr Modo label mates, Sound Iration. Boasting blissed out synth swells, worthy of Fingers Inc., its Steve Hillage-esque space-rock shredding stretches out like romantic whales wooing, and in this case the keys are very kosmische. 

The Ullulators’ Simply Conscious Dub can be ordered directly from Spiritual World.