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Version side

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The instrumental B-side that changed everything. After Ruddy Redwood's vocal-less acetate of "On the Beach" tore up a Spanish Town dance in 1967, producers put a "version" on the back of nearly every single: free to press, ready for a deejay to talk over, and the raw material dub was mixed from. The whole version economy — riddims, deejays, dub — stands on this practice.

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Bass Culture; dub histories.

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Technology, recording & industry

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Story · Well supportedVersions, rewinds and dance argument

The rewind is a review. In the dance, a crowd decides in eight bars whether a record lives, and the argument about what it should be saying has run for forty years.

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