Prised from Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker's debut album, 'Simple Things', 'Destiny' is destined to increase the duo's already considerable profile.
The band and their supporters have been rebuffing the obvious comparisons with Air for a while now, while also knowing the duo's similarity to the their Gaelic cousins has been one of the main reasons why Zero 7 have already shifted some 40,000 copies.
In it's original format 'Destiny' is as laid back and plaintive as any Air track, while also having a memorable but far from obvious melody line.
Strangely, and perhaps this reveals the Britishness of the project, the re-mixes are nothing like as reverential of the original as the re-mixes of Air's tracks have tended to be.
Photek mangles the whole thing through chopped up house beats and colliding delays, while Roni Size predictably pitches the beats up to supersonic level, whirling the track through over charged high hats before dissolving the thing into a bowel loosening bass drop and setting off the charge.
In the second package of re-mixes, Hefner delivers a much more inventive re-working, teasing out the ambient and acoustic nature of the track by allowing highlighted instruments, such as the guitar, to breath, while also adding surprises, such as piano runs, that shouldn't work, but somehow do.
Meanwhile Simian round things off by turning Sia Furler and Sophie Barker's vocals into strangled medieval organ noises.
