As 12" dance classics collectors, we always freak out on the dub/remix/instrumental versions as well. These versions could sometimes be found on the flipside of a 12" single. 

The long basslines, drum solo's, breaks, synth solos, acapella's, etc. form the foundation of many (of our) oldschool remixes and still are the perfect layer for nowadays (R&B) productions.

As it's almost impossible to listen to them anywhere, we threw in a few here ;-)

Just click the 12" labels below to listen to these dub/mix/instrumental versions (WMP required)

This is such a great song: Curtis Hairston - I Want You (All Tonight) Dub Version (1983, RCA, 5:23)

The dub mix: Mahogany - Ride On The Rhtyhm (1983, West End, 5:50)

One of our favorite 12"'s: Chocolate Milk - Who's Getting It Now (RCA, 1982)
The label says it's an instrumental version, but we think it's also a great dub version.

We recorded the flipside of a real funky classic 12": Vaughan Mason's Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll, Part 2. (7:10, Brunswick Records, 1979) Really: the outro is just as it is !

It's a real oldskool dub version. About the outro ... They must have been thinking "Why don't we slide up the pitch control ;-) Unique - What I Got Is What You Need
(1983, Prelude Records, 5:54)

This is the "Do It Yourself" version of Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'". (7:58, Mercury, 1979). It's instrumental, so you were able to "rap" along by yourself. In 1997 "Next" used this line for their song "Too Close". Here's the original.

One of the first hit singles from the SOS Band: Take Your Time (Do It Right).
Below is the B-side, just called Part II (4:14, Tabu, 1980)

Not to be compared with the A-side...Frankie Smith's "Double Dutch".
(4:33, WMOT, 1980)

The instrumental B-side of Empress - Dyin' To Be Dancin' (Prelude, 1981)

The A-side handles the opposite of the B-side. A : Don't Go Walkin' Out That Door,
B : Keep On Walkin' Out That Door ... Richard Jon Smith (Jive, 1982)

Toney Lee's "Reach Up" had 3 versions on the 12": The Club Mix, The Dub Mix and the Quick Mix.  Below you'll find the Dub Mix (TMT, 1982)