Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician* – Everywhere

Everywhere is an interesting track, based around the Alan Parsons Project's 'Old & Wise'. The original rocks the sample to the fullest under a hefty dose of rattling and shaken drums. The first half consists of the sample looped up over the drumbeats but turns more interesting in the second half where the vocal is dropped for a moment for some strings to be brought in. It's an interesting excursion of music but leans a bit on the repetitive side.

Swell Session (Andreas Saag) goes for a straight-up house re-rub but takes it steps further. Instead of just working the sample as a lone loop as in the original, Saag builds the track musically around the track and brings along frequent collaborator Elsa Esmeralda and her fellow Bless groupmate Vanessa Liftig to add some additional vocals to back up the sample and also to work around the track. With a slick bassline and some nice synth work, this is top billing on this release for me.