remix
56 tracksA new version of a recording made by reworking its parts: changing the beat, harmony, tempo or structure, often by another producer. A remix can turn a ballad into a club track.
Production
dub
8 tracks.
What it is
A Jamaican practice of remixing a record by stripping it to drums and bass and treating the rest with echo, reverb and drop-outs. Dub's studio techniques shaped techno, house and electronic music at large.
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delay
1 trackAn effect that repeats a sound after a set time, often several times and fading. Echoes timed to the tempo add rhythm; dub turned delay into an instrument of its own.
reverb
3 tracksThe sound of a space: countless reflections that blend after the direct sound. Reverb places a voice in a room, a hall or an impossible space, and long reverbs make music feel distant or dreamlike.
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Gorgon City
Ready For Your Love (CLOSE Remix)
Will Saul, remixing as CLOSE, stretches Gorgon City and MNEK's 2014 UK number four into a six-and-a-half-minute, dub-tinged deep-house journey, the soulful vocal echoing through a late-night haze.
DJ Fitchie, Joe Dukie
Midnight Marauders
Seven unhurried minutes of Pacific dub-soul from two Fat Freddy's Drop mainstays, Joe Dukie's honeyed voice drifting over a deep, patient bassline built for the small hours.
Lulu Rouge
Sweeter Than Sweet (feat. Alice Carreri)
From Lulu Rouge's 2008 debut Bless You, a slow, dub-shadowed Copenhagen downtempo track in which Alice Carreri sings Mikael Simpson's words over deep bass and spacious, echoing textures.
Lulu Rouge
Lulu's Theme (feat. Trentemøller)
Danish duo Lulu Rouge and their old ally Trentemøller in seven and a half minutes of nocturnal minimal house: reverberating dub bass, slow-building layers and a Basic Channel shadow.
JPattersson
Elevator
A laid-back fusion of dub, reggae and deep electronic beats from East Germany: JPattersson's 2016 Elevator, the title track of an EP that also carries its own dub version and two remixes.
Groove Armada
Superstylin'
Groove Armada's 2001 single fuses house with dancehall, reggae and dub over a speed-garage bassline, with MC M.A.D. on vocals and a live horn section; a UK number 12 and a 2003 Grammy nominee.
Asian Dub Foundation
Flyover
The synth-heavy opener of Asian Dub Foundation's Tank: churning drum and bass, a dub-friendly chorus and the band's political urgency, at the start of an album written in the shadow of the Iraq War.
Basement Freaks
Soul Intoxication (Lonely Boy's Detox Dub)
Los Angeles producer Lonely Boy strips a funk track by the Greek producer Basement Freaks down to a hypnotic house dub, issued on Jalapeno Records in 2013 and later picked up by French lounge compilations.