The power of the sample simply cannot be ignored within the realms of electronic music. It is essentially how house music as we know it came to be; playing around by re-editing other records, reshaping older ideas, reinterpreting axioms of the strains that came before. Opinion can be ruthlessly divided amongst critics, fans and producers alike over just how much should be sampled, whether it should be done at all or how much credit should be given to the original. There now exist within electronic music countless versions based around the same samples to the point where they are seen as standards. First Choice’s cover of Al Green’s “Love and Happiness” has long been a house music standard, and the allure of those sultry, smoky tones still inspire today. Ation’s “Lovers Dub” on Scuba’s Abucs off-shoot enterprise pays its own homage to the track with a brilliantly deep, stripped back, steppers riddim that uses large portions of the vocal.