Savant, Zion. Ferocious 75 minutes of samples and concepts, keenly and leisurely developed by ace mixer Aleksander Vinter (aka Savant). Zion’s separated into 16 songs, but I’ve heard it several times through and appreciate it most as a cohesive album-length suite. A lot of it is dance-friendly electro/dubstep stuff, but I don’t dance and find it great background music to write to. Middle Eastern sounds rise up in Zion regularly (sometimes very cleverly, as in “Shazam”), and the beats are generally very frisky, but my favorite bit is probably “Outcasts,” a slowish soul scream right in the middle of the thing. It reminds me of the magic performed with a short sample of The Beatles’ “Yesterday” on his 75 minute Underground mixtape.