[RATING: 5] There is a lot of good music coming out at the moment – a veritable torrent of it in fact, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since March. Here’s some more – and this time it’s that captain Fab Samperi standing proud in his remix tugboat and effortlessly guiding both Smoove & Turrell and The Soul Session into new waters. S&T’s original is the most high profile of the two and forms the A-side where the neo-northern soul stomp of Hard Work becomes a smoother, sleeker slice of soul-breaks. It’s the B-side that runs shit on this release though. Here, The Soul Session’s smouldering downtempo Karl Frierson-featuring effort Soul Desire is transformed into a uptempo swing-breaks sureshot.
(Out 5 August on Agogo Records)