C’batch returns to The Vault with “I Guess You Want It This Way”, a six-version EP that brings a composition more than two decades in the making into the present while paying tribute to legendary Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin. Released through Stevette Music, the project is both a long-awaited completion and a reflection of C’batch’s connection to Jamaican music.

The story behind “I Guess You Want It This Way” stretches back approximately 26 years. C’batch’s wife, Yvette, who is from Jamaica, had long encouraged him to write a reggae song. An early version of the composition came close to becoming that song, but both C’batch and Yvette felt that something was still missing. Although the track remained unfinished, its central hook stayed with him, along with a melody for the verses that would continue to return to him over the following decades.

During a trip to Jamaica in the early 2000s, C’batch even incorporated the recording into a personal slideshow, pairing photographs from the journey with the song. The experience gave the unfinished composition another connection to Jamaica, but the track itself still did not feel complete. Instead, it remained in his musical archives, waiting for the right moment to be revisited.

That moment finally arrived in 2026.

Returning to the composition after more than two decades, C’batch wrote lyrics around the verse melody he had continued hearing for years and completed the song he had been carrying with him since its earliest version. What had once existed as an unfinished idea could finally become a finished release, giving I Guess You Want It This Way a history that is almost as important as the music itself.

The EP also carries a personal connection to one of Jamaica’s most influential guitarists. I Guess You Want It This Way is dedicated to Ernest Ranglin, the pioneering Jamaican guitarist whom C’batch had the memorable opportunity to meet at London’s Heathrow Airport in February 2001.

For C’batch, who is a guitarist himself, Ranglin represents an important figure in Jamaican music and musicianship. His extraordinary contribution to the development of Jamaican music made him a natural artist to honour through a project rooted in reggae and shaped by C’batch’s own long-standing relationship with the genre.

Rather than presenting the composition in only one form, the EP features six different interpretations of “I Guess You Want It This Way.” Each version approaches the song from a different musical perspective while retaining the melody and reggae spirit that have remained at the centre of the composition since its earliest days.

That structure gives the release the character of an exploration rather than simply a single-song presentation. The six versions allow C’batch to revisit the same musical idea through different interpretations, showing how a composition that has existed in his mind for more than 20 years can continue to evolve once it is finally given the opportunity to take shape.

The long history of the song also fits naturally into C’batch’s wider creative work in 2026. I Guess You Want It This Way arrives as part of his “Year of the Vault,” an ongoing period devoted to opening his musical archives and bringing older compositions and ideas back into the present.

Throughout the year, C’batch has been revisiting material accumulated across decades, giving unfinished or previously unheard pieces another opportunity to be completed and shared. In that context, the new EP represents more than the release of an old composition. It demonstrates the value of returning to ideas that may have remained dormant for years without necessarily losing their creative significance.

“I Guess You Want It This Way” is particularly suited to that approach because its central musical ideas never disappeared. The hook remained with C’batch, while the verse melody continued to exist in his mind long after the original recording had been set aside. The 2026 release therefore becomes a continuation of a creative process that began decades earlier rather than an entirely new beginning.

The Jamaican connection runs through the story at several levels, from Yvette’s encouragement and the couple’s early efforts to create a reggae song, to C’batch’s trip to Jamaica, and ultimately to the dedication to Ernest Ranglin. Those elements give the EP a personal history that connects C’batch’s own musical journey with the Jamaican traditions that inspired the composition in the first place.

At the same time, the project reflects the broader idea behind The Vault: music does not necessarily have an expiration date. A composition can remain unfinished for years and still retain the melody, feeling, or idea that made it worth returning to. For C’batch, “I Guess You Want It This Way” is an example of that process, moving from an early reggae experiment to a completed six-version EP more than two decades later.

Released through Stevette Music, I Guess You Want It This Way now brings that long journey to a wider audience while keeping its original connection to reggae and Jamaican musical heritage intact.

For C’batch, the project closes a chapter that began approximately 26 years ago while opening another within his 2026 Year of the Vault. With six interpretations of the same composition and a dedication to Ernest Ranglin at its heart, I Guess You Want It This Way gives a long-held musical idea a new life in the present.

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