Review by ziqfFeb 19, 2007(edited over 2 years ago)
The story of the song:
Jake Williams started an outside house project OBLIK with instrumental track "Seeking" containing the samples of the Theme from Exodus, originally created by Hank & Carol Diamond, the Oblik's track title released as "Restless (Original Mix)". Then, the black female singer Merle Forbes of "Bullet in the Gun"'s fame was involved here to lift up this song by her great vocal with new keywords "Hey, I Get Restless, I Believe", although the original track was not been changing in principle, now: "Restless (New Vocal 12" Mix)". After some problems with the licensing of the Exodus' samples in it, the song was reborn under Jake's main guise JX and became a trance hymn, followed by a simple video clip featuring the original singer.
Infinitely better arrangement than the 2004 version of the same song made popular by JX. The New Vocal 12" Mix in particular is mixed flawlessly - the sweeping strings lifted from the theme to "Exodus" give it an epic sound that make you stand up and take notice. As beautiful to listen to as it is great to dance to. (And as a sidebar, the vocals on the JX versions sound exactly like those on the Oblik versions - I wonder if it is the same group just using different arrangememnts and a different alias...? Hmmmm.....)
Jake Williams started an outside house project OBLIK with instrumental track "Seeking" containing the samples of the Theme from Exodus, originally created by Hank & Carol Diamond, the Oblik's track title released as "Restless (Original Mix)". Then, the black female singer Merle Forbes of "Bullet in the Gun"'s fame was involved here to lift up this song by her great vocal with new keywords "Hey, I Get Restless, I Believe", although the original track was not been changing in principle, now: "Restless (New Vocal 12" Mix)". After some problems with the licensing of the Exodus' samples in it, the song was reborn under Jake's main guise JX and became a trance hymn, followed by a simple video clip featuring the original singer.