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One of Paul Oakenfold's many routes to riches down the years has been remixing. Between working on his artist albums and DJing around the globe he reworks songs by artists as diverse as zeitgeist indie darlings Editors (Camera, a B-side of the single Blood) and, here, a little ditty from Winston Rodney, the man better known as Jamaican roots reggae legend Burning Spear.
Released on his own label Burning Music, Never is - astonishingly - the first time Rodney has enjoyed remix treatment. While it's not a four-to-the-floor anthem a la Mory Kante, it could see the 58-year-old appear on the radar of a new audience - Oakenfold's trancehead flock of lovelies on sunkissed island shores.
Oakenfold provides a busy, breaksy backing to the calm, Rastafarian dub implorings: "We don't want no bad minded violence, we don't want the negative vibes." There's no original version included for comparison, this being intended for the DJ market, and it weighs in at less than four minutes, but this joining of two distinct music traditions - dub and trance - looks and sounds like an inspired idea.
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