Ancient Romans have given to the entire world an inestimable legacy, made of many different elements, among which a lot of quotations filled with wisdom. One of those quotations is “repetita iuvant”, whose origin is uncertain and bound to pedagogy. The meaning of the reported words in ancient Latin is “repeated things can be helpful”. However, I suspect that even the unknown author of the explained idiom didn’t know how much effectively important is repeating things in the world of today. It is true that, when a student repeats the reading of a lesson, an easier memorization is a normal consequence of the repetition, but the kind of praxis is not exclusive of the sector of studies. In effect, whenever there’s whatever form of memorization, memorization serves for utilizing a certain information more than one time. The multiple utilization of the same information can be associated to the same, or different, actions. In case the action is the same, you clearly have a repetition. By thinking about to the described procedure, you might comprehend how much frequent it is. For instance, how can you describe the content of professionalism? Professionalism consists of being able of daily renewing the offer of the common techniques of a certain job. With other words, it often is a repetition, partial or total. Of course, non-professional repetition of actions ends up to become a habit. I don’t want to prolong an analysis that you can easily do it yourself, for that I jump to the first conclusion: the vast majority of human actions are repetitions, at least in part.
As you can verify, repeated things are not only potentially useful to mankind, but also the most frequent, all over the world. Despite, in the known universe, a perfect repetition of events is impossible, because time rules everything, never stops, always changes, and never comes back. Thus, there is a fundamental paradox, according to which humans mostly spend their lives in repeating things, while, at a universal level, repetition is impossible. It’s a simple observation with many relevant consequences, such as: transcending human condition is not consented to mankind, especially because human civilizations and societies are based on conventional praxes, whose unique source of validity is the permanence of enough consensus; the entire human lifetime is a long collection of illusions, mostly invalid; repetitions are not only helpful, but also vital, because no one can survive without a psychological structure made of thin sand, where fears can only be beaten with consolatory falsity; there’s no eternity and true glory for humanity, everything that is good for us is not really good, and vice versa. By employing a religious metaphor, human condition is similar to the one of Lucifer, the fallen angel who has lost the self-love of being immortally glorious, and continuously goes on fighting against God’s law, in the attempt of reconstructing the self-love itself, which is destined to perennial, painful failure.
In my opinion, dub music is great, because based on echoing sound, intentionally hypnotic, and able to demonstrate the illusory power of repetitions. For that, one more time the mix of the page is made of trippy versions of house music tunes, usually named “dub version”.
File name “the mystique of dub tunes, by Max Look DJ (Dec 2025)”, 1 hour 20’ and 45” of dub versions, from 128 to 131 BPM.
Another dub playlist:
Ce Ce Rogers - come together (New Wave Explorers dub)
Room 5 feat Oliver Cheatham - make luv (Axwell dub mix)
Bomfunk MC's - freestyler (Happy Mickey Mouse mix)
Angie Stone - life story (Club 69 future mix)
Dino Leny Vs the Housemartins - change the world (West London deep mix)
Yves Larock feat Jaba - respect (Andrea T Mendoza Vs Steven Tibet dub)
Neja - restless (Nite Shadow club mix)
Artful Dodger - the crowd say Bo Selecta (Sharp remix)
U2 - vertigo (Redanka Power mix)
Daddy's Groove feat Coleman - rendez vous (Daddy's Groove dub)
Paris - stars are blind (Scumfrog's extreme makeover)
Bob Marley Vs Funkstar Deluxe - sun is shining (Funkstar club)
Smoke City - with you (Glo-tip mix)
Faith Evans - all night long (A-N-S uplift dub)
Farolfi e Gambafreaks Vs Moloko - a style suite (Alle Vacchi Vs Gambafreaks mix)
