Roger Sanchez & Far East Movement Ft. Kanobby

The collaboration appeared in the 2010 recording period around Far East Movement’s Free Wired album. The original catalogue names Sanchez, the group and Kanobby together, rather than presenting the song as an anonymous remix of a solo performance. That credit reflects a meeting of different recording roles and musical backgrounds.

The rap passages give the arrangement a speech-like rhythmic activity, while the more repeated vocal sections provide a common point of return. Sanchez’s production setting makes the track feel compatible with a longer dance set even when the vocal structure is working at the more immediate scale of a pop single.

The British single campaign followed in 2011 through Ministry of Sound, with the Pitron & Sanna radio edit among the released versions. That treatment gives the same featured performance another production frame, showing how the collaboration moved between the Free Wired album setting and a separate club-pop single campaign.

In the Free Wired setting, 2Gether sits within Far East Movement’s wider interest in electronic club production and multiple guest voices. The Sanchez partnership gives that approach another route into house music. Its pleasure is uncomplicated but carefully organised, using the distinction between rapper, featured voice and producer to create one direct invitation to join the room.