original was the first single of her second album and i remember i didn't like it back then since it didn't have that cheiron kind of vibe. but i enjoyed it later and found a big liking to it when i revisited this track first in '01-'03, i really don't remember but i do know it was somewhere around there. by skulking discogs it alerted me a few years after about the mad professor reworks.
i had then started to really got into dub and introduced to that via reggae of course but through mad professor and his reworks of hamasaki ayumi. finding mp3's originally of this was hard and they had shit quality back then, it was like dodgy 128's and it was at a stage that i couldn't stand anything under 160 but when i finally found the actual cdsingle here in stockholm i was stoked.
mad professor's versions are in his usual kind of digital dub stylings where he keeps a lot from the original but adds his own flavour. here he kept all the best parts from the original and accentuated that and just added more soundscapes.
he changed the tempo from it's 140bpm halftime to a usual dub kind of four on the floor but it's not like his usual dub tunes at this tempo where the rhythm is utterly subdued. it's quite present here for dub at least and the bass is as usual heavy. the second version or dub version (as in the far less vocal version) could really work well with really techno with a rhythmical or percussive backing.
there is two other versions on the cdsingle; a rootsy kind of dub from sweden's own dub specialist internal dread which is nice and a horrendously bad dance remix from patric berger. they can be found on youtube as well i think.
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