Solid Session vinyl

"Solid Session" was originally released in 1991 under Orlando Voorn's then alias Format #1, and is one of the more significant Dutch electro tracks of the time. Given its age, it still sounds surprisingly fresh, and is here given a reissue with remixes from Legowelt, Vince Watson and Voorn himself. Legowelt adds a slightly dubbier touch to the track, whilst treating the melody to give it that slightly otherworldly quality that only Legowelt can, whilst Watson's remix adds some synth strings that give the track a deeper Chicago house flavour. The most interesting of the reworks is the beatless remix by Voorn himself which removes the thumping rhythms and highlights the trance like quality beneath, sounding very much like a lot of the ambient synth revivalists of recent times. But really it's the original that is the essential track here, with its clattering hi-hats and synthetic piano stabs that still sound big today.