Burdens Down (Remixes) - Scan 7 (Elypsia)

Title: Burdens Down (Remixes)

Artist: Scan 7

Label: Elypsia

Cat Number: ELY076

Genre: Techno

1: Burdens Down (DJ Deep & Roman Poncet Remix)

2: Burdens Down (Mark Flash Remix)

3: Burdens Down (Orlando Voorn Remix)

4: Burdens Down (Orlando Voorn Underground Mix)

The original from 2017 is a gospel-tinged soul stomper which highlights the vocals of Maurice Jackson. The remixes herein, with the exception of the DJ Deep/Roman Poncet collaboration, also emphasise his velvet larynx, but even though there is an effort to strengthen the instrumentation, it all feels compromised. There’s only so much you can do to toughen up production under these circumstances without sounding derivative or just wrong. There are traits of hi-tek soul throughout this package, but both Orlando Voorn’s interpretations, and Mark Flash’s fall short, and It’s the ‘Groove la Chord’ functionality of Deep and Poncet’s effort which bears most fruit.