What better way to kick off my spanking new blog, than with my all time favorite cover version, and quite possibly my all time favorite song: Colourbox – Baby I Love You So
This song, originally by Jacob Miller was made famous by it’s more infamous b-side, Augustus Pablo’s sublime dub version King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (which is a whole other blogworthy article in itself).
10 years on in 1986, 4AD’s lone dance outfit, Colourbox (who would later go on to form M/A/R/R/S) took their highly stylized crack at it, conceptually-speaking, by retaining the sweet soulful vocals of the original (sung by the exquisite Lorita Grahame), the experimental dub technique of the producer and fusing it quite randomly, with samples from Escape from New York (see attached equation).
Baby I Love You So, with it’s heavy leaning on electronic basslines and other digital effects, foreshadowed the nascent electronic-dub movement by a good 5 years; try slipping this in after an Orb, Thievery Corporation or Rockers Hi Fi track and see if anyone notices.

Enjoy! (and play this one L O U D !)
LS

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