Not just my favourite reggae tune. Not just my favourite dub. Simply one of my favourite tunes of any genre (I can’t say ‘song’ as it’s instrumental).

It’s the perfect example of dub: the production technique of taking a tune – in this case Jacob Miller’s 1974 hit Baby I Love You So – and stripping it back to its roots, principally drum and bass before reassembly.

It’s all about the space that’s left behind.

Augustus Pablo and King Tubby fill it with rimshots that rattle your cerebellum – that’s Carlton Barrett of The Wailers – and a bassline that rumbles through your body, with Pablo’s memorable melodica melody floating over the top, enhanced by the counter melody of the vocal chant.

Everything in its right place: it’s sheer perfection. Apart from being too short at two and a half minutes.

The title, incidentally refers to the fact that Pablo was an ‘Uptown’ boy from an affluent background (though he rebelled by embracing Rastafarianism) teaming up with ‘Downtown’ producer King Tubby in the ghetto of Kingston.

King Tubby was one of the major figures of dub, arguably its originator, using machinery he made and customised in his electrical repair shop. Sadly he was shot dead in 1989.