the original was one of those songs that i saw on mtv when i was younger and i knew of massive attack for "unfinished sympathy" but the difference was that i like that song. i do know it was to do with having problems with tracey thorn when she sounds really dreary.
eventually i did catch on and by then i had listened to more than the first two minutes of the song and heard that wonderful slow but heavy pulsating bass & rhythm. i didn't know what a tb-303 was or the concept of acidlines but i did know that was the best part of the song.
that heavy rhythm was amplified in mad professors dub version and it is one my favourite tracks on his dub remix album but i like "i spy (spying glass)" a bit more. the professor takes a very rhythmic approach to his version and the samples from james browns "the payback" are removed as the focus is shifted of them.
it starts out with the dreamy pad from the original and eventually you hear a long & round bass stab that hits hard. after a while some reverbed out sound are introduced into the soundscape once the rhythm gets going. thorns vocal is reduced to occasional short fragments loaded with reverb and delays.
the acidline is given a bigger space into the realm but it still floats on in the background until halfway in where the other sounds are put in a backseat role for a near solo. it was when i heard this first time that i really fell in love with the track. i'd always associated dub with such slower rhythms and while this does floats at 85bpm it does have the movement as the acidline & drum rhythms are chugging on.
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