The phrase "ambient dub" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a genre of music that combines elements of ambient music and dub music, often characterized by its atmospheric soundscapes and rhythmic basslines.
Example: "The new album features a unique blend of ambient dub that creates a relaxing yet engaging listening experience."
Alternatives: "atmospheric dub" or "chill dub".
(1) Sid Vicious's drunken slur of Jah's real name - John Wardle - instantly renamed him "Jah Wobble" (2) Wobble's pioneering worldbeat-ambient-dub band, who had several hits in the 1990s (3) AKA Johnny Rotten.
Led by Skip McDonald, the group, which includes Doug Wimbish, Keith LeBlanc and Adrian Sherwood (all former members of avant-garde studio experiment Tackhead), likes to call itself the first ambient-dub-blues project.
Upon release, critics noted that Cydonia merged pop, trance, and ambient-dub music, which they felt to be a conglomeration of bland vocals and uninventive ambience that lacked the appeal of The Orb's earlier work.
Nils Petter Molvaer Khmer (1997) The Norwegian trumpeter's tone certainly nods towards Miles Davis, but it is draped in an electronic shroud that is equal parts post-rock, ambient electronica, dub and jungle.
Just reissued by One Little Indian, it has a little more context after years of ambient music, dub and noise improvisations, but it's still wonderfully peculiar: an immersion in a realm of, as one lyric puts it, "everything gone crazy".
Founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and KLF member Jimmy Cauty, The Orb began as ambient and dub DJs in London.
His Deep Space project tries to tie together elements of dub, ambient, free jazz, world music and avant-garde electronics.
So, we get 63 minutes of instrumentals showcasing the pair's fealty to German electronic-music pioneers Kraftwerk and Neu! ("Sons of Rother") and facility for subtle shifts among such styles as ambient, techno and dub.
No-one really needs more than, say, three Traum 12-inches in their life, so buy this label round-up CD, Tour De Traum, imaginatively mixed and retouched by minimalist master Thomas Brinkmann, and you're pretty much up to scratch with the Cologne label's output, a tantalising blend of micro-house, pop ambient and dusty dub.
