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.

Haldolium have made some amazing basslines in their days, and the one they pull off here has to be considered one of their very best. It's like it has two layers, and at least one of them sounds like it's got some freaky chorus effect on it. It reminds me a bit of the one in "Plusminus" from their album H2, but even better. The result is very warm and rolling. I swear I could listen to just the kick and bass from this track for the length of the entire track without getting bored. But the Haldolium duo didn't stop at that, even though their remix is the one thats the most faithful to the original. It's slightly toned down and focuses more on atmosphere, while having improved a brilliant bassline to something truly remarkable. The other remixes of this track turns it into something different, while Haldolium try to improve what is already there; It sounds like mission impossible but I actually think they've pulled it off. It's not harder or heavier or more jawdropping but it has this wonderful feelgood vibe to it that the original lacks somewhat.

The only remix that never really appealed to me is the one from Peak Pilots. It's much drier than the original, which is quite reverb drenched. As I'm a sucker for atmospheres and big reverbs, I found this track lacking something. But I think the percussion is weaker too, much more generic. The bass is quite impressive - not in depth (leave that to the Elmshorn badboys) but in thickness and throb-factor. Only a few elements from the original remain here, mainly the female voice sample ("The Only Process.... Vitalizer", or something like that). The track doesn't feel like it's going anywhere for the first 4 or so minutes. I've never been into druggy music really, but there is some nuttiness going on here with the weird effects and the percussion. That sort of stuff has to be executed very well to appeal to me, like in the Prime Time Plastix EP on Plastik Park (PARK004). Towards the end it's pretty interesting since there are so many sounds involved, but it feels a little uninspired nonetheless.

Conclusion: Worth every penny for the Haldolium remix, it's really brilliant. I find the Peak Pilots one somewhat hard to enjoy.