Pub - Do You Ever Regret Pantomime?
Label: Ampoule – amplp01
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Repress
Country: UK
Released: Jun 30, 2001 / 2026 Repress
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Leftfield, IDM
Some records exist outside of time. Do You Ever Regret Pantomime? is one of them. Emerging from Glasgow in 2000 via the enigmatic producer Pub on his equally mysterious Ampoule imprint, the album occupied a space between The Black Dog, Chain Reaction and Irdial that felt less like influence and more like a missing link — a record that belonged to a lineage it was simultaneously inventing.
It has since become the stuff of local folklore, one of the most celebrated documents of the UK's IDM and ambient lineage, and — bizarrely, gloriously — a record that somehow made its way into the Billboard Top 100.
Now back on orange vinyl for 2026, remastered and cut at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering and featuring new artwork alongside a bonus track, Do You Ever Regret Pantomime? arrives for a new audience without having conceded a single thing to the intervening years.
Across 70 minutes, the record draws the listener into a deep matrix of spacious chords, abstract textures and gently shifting rhythms — music for losing yourself in sound and creating your own universe to explore. Pub has always remained in their own space, and on this evidence it is a space where everyone is welcome. Essential.
