As promised then, I thought I would do a 5 day series of dub posts, offering up the live, one-take versions of tracks from my 45s selection for you to enjoy…

Please note: I should point out from the get-go here that these are versions - not remixes (in that I’m not adding any production, merely FX and whatnot), all delivered without any sequencers or means to correct errors. In this case, all tracks have been heard on Dang In Dub 4: Every Spoil Is A Style. However a fair few people have asked about these versions, so I thought the time was right to offer them up for people to use in their own mixes or whatever.

For the final day, I wanted to post this excellent chance-buy I picked up some time back; “So Jah Jah Say” by Junior Ross and the Spears. While this is a great track in itself, it is one of those that just seems to have the right amount of space in there to do great things on the mixing desk. Hence you get a load of flying delays, pause-outs, phasing and god knows what else going on in there, while all the time the rhythm section just grooves along.

Its tough to explain the beauty of dubbing live rather than in a sequencer. Its that “flying by the seat of your pants” feeling, knowing that one false move could potentially trash the whole take. However the flipside is that you sometimes have everything come together with your mind absolutely in the track, and the end result is a new version that is absolutely unique, on the basis you probably couldn’t repeat it in that exact form, even if you wanted to. To me, this track is an excellent example of that happening; all delays held, nothing went haywire and at the end of it I had a new version that was probably one of the best one-takes I’d ever done.

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