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WRWTFWW Records unleashes the first ever release of legendary post-disco, funk, soul and electronic UK trio Imagination's cult album "Night Dubbing" in (well deserved) double LP format. The limited edition full-length comes with pristine audiophile treatment and luxurious packaging : a 45rpm and half speed mastered double LP housed in heavyweight silver cardboard sleeve.

Imagination's singular 1983 album "Night Dubbing" is a refined deconstruction of black British soul and club pop, filtered through the deep studio and mixing techniques of dub music. Elegant, restrained, and, in its very own subtle way, radical, the record reshapes choice selections from the group's stellar catalogue into an immersive and out-of-this-world listening experience.

The special mixes on "Night Dubbing" are built on time and space. Basslines elongate and dissolve. Vocals appear, vanish, and reappear like ghosts. Drums fall away into vast silences, while echoes, tape edits, and precise engineering manoeuvres smoothly slide across the stereo field, revealing themselves like magic over repeated listens. Far from simple extensions or 12" versions, "Night Dubbing" treats the studio itself as an instrument, opening new dimensions of sound.

Often cited as a foundational record in the genesis of the house genre, the album also features the historic Larry Levan remix of "Changes", a Paradise Garage anthem that helped shape the direction of club music for decades to come.

More than 40 years on, "Night Dubbing" remains a seminal work. Its influence continues to echo through contemporary dance music, offering a blueprint for how pop could be transformed into something darker, stranger, more physical - a timeless sound that drifts effortlessly from the dancefloor into space.

Daniele Baldelli heads - it sounds amazing played on 33rpm too! ;)

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: This one truly did deserve the deluxe, double-LP treatment. For me, one of the most influential moments of boogie - namely 'cos they worked the dub work ethic into proceedings and in doing so laid the foundations for proto-house. It ticks all my boxes! And it sounds stupendously crips on this double vinyl master. The superior format for one of the most inventive boogie albums ever made.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Flashback
A2. Just An Illusion
B1. Music And Lights
B2. So Good, So Right
C1. Body Talk
C2. Heart 'n' Soul
D1. Changes (Larry Levan Dub)
D2. Burnin' Up