Matt Hardwick vs Gulf - Impossible

Another excellent release from Kill The Lights, Recoverworld’s more melodic imprint A&Red by Matt Hardwick. The former Crasher resident’s really fount his feet with this project, delivering some top notch tunes from the likes of Ben Gold, Ehren Stowers, Sean Truby and Hardwick himself. For the trainspotters, Hardwick penned this together with up and coming indie band Gulf in 2008 for the David Beckham Motorola phone.  
The original mix is a brooding, proggy affair that gradually ups the ante with the vocal sample, melodies and soft percussion setting the background before the well worked electro hook comes in at the same time as the first sultry verses. The melodies and vocals fit well together, with the hook and melodies getting filtered which adds to the atmosphere at the midsection. The track has a lazy, lilting edge to it, making it perfect for that first set of the night. There’s also a radio edit for ADD sufferers.
 
John O’Callaghan makes a welcome return to the Discover family, with a stunning up-tempo remix that’s much more suited to peak time play. The drum kit style kick at the beginning offers a temporary diversion before he soon toughness the kick up, bolstered with a few percs. The melodies also get a reworking, with a much trancier edge to them, and Gulf’s excellent vocals again deliver this time only in the mid-section, where they bring an ethereal beauty to it, with a few dirty little effects lurking in the background offering a contrast. This is one of those tracks that seems to end too soon, with the track winding down before the six minute mark. 
 
Ben Gold stamps his own mark on things with a more percussion fuelled interpretation, that again uses the vocal sample to build the energy, this time with a more aggressive, slide-rule style hook, which together with a groovy little melody and fat kick, which while at a lower tempo than JOC’s mix doesn’t lack energy. The vocal seems to have a more filtered feel, and he’s also tweaked up the electroish melody and added more warm pads to the proceedings.