“Ferocious Dub” strips Kosmo Sound’s sound down to its core. Reworked by drummer Marius Couvreur and sound engineer Christopher Lonneville, the track opens the Ghent collective’s new release Dub Takes, issued on 1 October 2025 as a 10-inch limited edition of twenty-five hand-numbered vinyl copies by Earth Works Amsterdam and Zephyrus Records.

Couvreur, a mainstay of Ghent’s contemporary jazz and dub scene, first built his reputation through projects like Madame Blavatsky and Nordmann before co-founding Kosmo Sound in 2016. His drumming balances strict rhythmic precision with an ear for negative space, a quality central to this remix. Working beside him, Lonneville has long defined the band’s studio character. Trained as a live engineer and known for detailed analogue mixes, he translates the group’s stage sound into sculpted low-end clarity.

On “Ferocious Dub”, their collaboration becomes method. Couvreur records a live rhythmic framework, holding the centre while Lonneville manipulates the recording desk as an instrument — filtering, phasing, and sending fragments into delay. The mix exposes the band’s architecture: bass and drums in the foreground, brass and guitar reduced to memory, and each echo serving structural function. What remains is a dub cut that documents both musicians at work.

Their partnership grounds Dub Takes, a four-track project also featuring versions by Daniel Boyle and Alpha & Omega. Together they extend Kosmo Sound’s reach from Belgium’s experimental scene to the broader European dub network that connects Ghent, London, and Bristol.

You can pre-order and listen to Dub Takes HERE