I've been a big fan of

Portishead - Roads (Sultan & the Greek remix)

for a bit. Some world class progressive.


Hence, I was a little distressed to see hear it on Tiesto's ISOS4 .. labelled as

Tonedepth & Soultan - Moments

and in the small print ...

"Tonedepth & Soultan-Moments
written + produced by tony papadopoulos(tonedepth) & Ossama Al Sarraf(soultan).
Published by magik muzik.Black hole records."

Not a mention of Portishead.

Now the two songs are not identical. There's a tiny change in the melody (so small that it's hard to notice), and the vocals are missing on Tiesto's CD (although they were a very small part of the other release). But these two are the same song ... no doubt about it.

Can anyone cast any light on why Portishead was left out of the credits?





Edit: Samples added

i noticed this myself as well, don't know the original portishead though

so am i wrong if i believe that Tonedepth & Soultan produced the whole tune and threw in some vocals of the original portishead...

so the production without vocals has nothing to do with portishead what so ever,
seems like the most obvious reason that i can think of ... if im correct that is

ow and yes that song is amazing, i like 'roads' more btw.

There's a fair chunk of the music from roads in their remix too. Indeed I think everything except the percussion is from Portishead.

I'd post up a sample, but I'd probably get in trouble

Hmm .. yeah .. both, Roads and Moments sound the same for me .. the same guitars, etc. .. the little difference is at the break imo .. the Sultan & the Greek remix of Roads has the same chords as the original one from Portishead .. but not Moments .. please correct me if I’m wrong ..

.. and no problem about posting a sample

Chopping up some samples now ...

I'll edit the first post with them in a minute.

And if anyone has a problem with me posting these (short, low-quality) samples .. let me know. I'll take them down.

They couldn't release it as a dub mix of Roads (as probably they wanted to) so they made some minor changes and renamed it.

As above but someone here said that Portishead wanted no part in ISOS4 so the vocals were taken out and the portishead name dropped.

Sounds like a damn good explanation.
I hope this is the case, I prefer it to the alternative.

double that

Just listening to the (non existant) original mix of Roads there ... and I must make a correction:

the lead guitar from these remixes, it doesn't appear in it. So I was wrong in what I said above about all the music coming from the original.

Now it all makes sense.

I was under the impression that Portishead was tonedepth and soultan, just under another name. At least that's what I head a while ago.

I prefer the original by Portishead...
This is a very long and boring trance mix... i don't like it...

yep, sultan composed and played the guitars especially for the remix....actually they created almost everything in the track except the voclas and that weired effected guitar in the break...def a classic imo

what have I said...

sorry

I checked Porishead at discogs...and Roads release featured only the Sultan&The Greek remix..no original mix that's why I said like that

there must be obviously an original production by Portishead...

yep .. the original Roads from Portishead is in their album Dummy, and it has lyrics .. the girl has a nice voice ..

I think tehy killed the original of Portishead...

Don't be calling him a dummy! Anyone can make a mistake

Tiësto couldn't get Portishead to give him the credits to include the track on ISOS4, so he asked Sultan & ToneDepth to make a new version for the album, which they did. However, they couldn't use the vocals of Portishead, so they made a non-vocal version, and a slight change in the breakdown.

hey people i m new in here.
well i also noticed about this problem .
i still dont understand why protishead didn t accept the fact that tiesto wants to include their track in ISOS4

perhaps they do not like Tiesto

lisenceing a track for a compilation is much more complicated than that
it could really b a pain in the ass sometimes....