Dub In Ya Mind is a track from 1998. Here is the story behind the track:

I was in the Uk when I received a call from Jose Padilla inviting me to Ibiza. He wanted me to work on a remix of a Michael Gordon track, Weather-Two, at Lenny Ibizarre’s studio near Salinas. At the time Lenny had the coolest studio set up in a little adobe house. The computer keyboard and studio monitors hung suspended by ropes from the ceiling which was novel, but worked really well. With the summer wind drifting through the open windows, the room was a super creative space. The perfect spot to work on such a classic piece.

I have happy memories of that time. Henry Mancini’s son Chris dropped by to listen to the track. We enjoyed dinner at Cap des Falco; a small shack which served the best Dorado. Jose would sometimes play on the twin turntables set up by Falco owner Christian, a lovely guy that shared my love of snorkelling.

We would often snorkel off the beach in front of the bar, which was so close to the airport, we could hear the rumble of aircraft under the water. One day we found ourselves swimming amongst dozens of Portugese Men O War which could have proved fatal had we been stung. The immediate effect of their sting is paralysis which tends to cause you to drown. We calmly swam back, avoiding the tentacles by diving down about 20 feet and heading for the shore.

We made it back intact, crawled up the beach and sat on an old wooden boat which had been deposited there by a severe winter storm a couple of years earlier. That was a golden week working on something really interesting, chilling with friends and laughing a LOT.

Dub In Ya Mind Is Born

Sadly I had to leave and on my first morning back in the UK I sat in the studio and conjured up my feelings of the previous week. I wanted to capture the vibe of the trip. Often, engineers are not always intuitive to the sound you wanted to create. Lenny was different. He quickly dropped in tracks that he had recorded of me playing various instruments and placed them perfectly in the mix. That was a real eye opener. It taught me to trust my own instincts in the same way. That the first idea is usually the best and working in a studio is not work, it’s fun and relaxing. Lenny demonstrated to me that working intuitively is the best way to stay focused during both performance and production.

The track that came was Dub In Ya Mind, which starts with those underwater booms that reminded me of our snorkelling adventures. The track came together in that first day leaving the second day for mastering. That was a week I will never forget. Over the last couple of years I have had so many people ask me to release an edit I decided the time was right so it was released on 1st September