Atmos - Re-Processed 1

When I saw Atmos live back in late 2000 or early 2001 he played a version of The Only Process that he later told me was the first he had made. Anti had wanted it to be speedier, so he did the mix that ended up on ACDC001. "Atmos Fertilizer Remix" sounds a lot like that first version if my memory serves me right, and is more atmospheric than the one from the '99 release. This remix lacks the enormous drive the "original" had, but makes it up in groove and an impressive coziness. The house vibe is very obvious here, probably a little more so than in that version he did live. As the name change of the label was supposed to separate it from its psychedelic past and lead it into the realm of progrssive house, this is the perfect track to start things off with. It's completely different from the original, it doesn't even try to be the same track at all. It just happens to share some elements with it. This is essential if you want dark, irresistably funky and very moody progressive house that still has that trance feel to it. Don't listen expecting psychedelia though.

How a cold, dark and very white country like Sweden could spawn people with such an amazing skill for creating dub grooves as Rickard and Robert of Vibrasphere is a mystery. Here they do it again though, and if you enjoy ACDC008 you absolutely have to get this. Their remix is understandably less full on than the original, but very dancefloor friendly and so full of warm, bubbly goodness it'll make the sun rise over the north pole in december. Trance music at its very finest that will make you smile, wiggle and dance like there is no tomorrow. The Vibrasphere lads have managed to make a remix of an immortal track that if not surpasses, at least equals the original.

Conclusion: If you could just get one of the two remix EPs, I would probably pick this one, but cry blood over missing the Haldolium remix on the other. They're both damn-near essential if you're into the Gothenburg sound and/or the clubbier side of things.