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Remixed & Reimagined
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| Part No: | B000NA283Y |
| Manufacturer: | Sony Legacy |
| MFG Part: | 85088 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Hot on the heels of Nina Simone's like-minded project, this 14-track disk takes Billie Holiday's masterful and mourning vocals of 1935 to 1958 to the 21st-century digital dance floor, courtesy of some resourceful remixers and DJs from Swingsett & Takuya and Nickodemus & Zeb to Organica and Poppyseed. You have to give these aural alchemists credit for their daring, but some tracks work better than others. The best include "Spreadin' Rhythm Around," featuring Digable Planet's Ladybug Mecca, the echoplexed embers of GXR's "Long Gone Blues," DJ Logic's string-centric "Glad to be Unhappy," and Daniel Y's infectious, Soul to Soul/Loose Ends grooved "Billie's Blues." With augmentation provided by live guitarists, keyboardists, and percussionists, these scientists of sound don't desecrate the gardenia-wearing goddess's eternal artistry; rather, they globally reposition it for this era's electronica-fueled iPod generation, from the downbeat to the download. --
Eugene Holley, Jr.
| HOT!!!!! If you love Trip Hop, House, and acid Jazz, this remix is for you!!!! | 2008-05-22 | 5 / 5 |
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| Every song is perfectly remixed with an ambiance of House, Down Tempo, Trip Hop, Funk, and Acid Jazz. If you want to hear Billie Holiday in her natural style then buy the original Billie CD's but if you love remixes that take the past and make it a blast for todays generation, this is it!!! The flow of the CD never misses a beat. Each song is perfect in its remix style. This is much better then the Nina remix because it's smoother and the producers really meshed Billie Holidays vocals and original music to the new remix style they intended. Once again, if your looking for original Billie this is not the CD for you but if you want original Billie with a bit of Cayenne Pepper this is it!!!! |
| What did you EXPECT? It's a REMIXED cd people, not a REMAKE | 2008-02-23 | 5 / 5 |
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I loooooved the cd. It helps people my generation understand the beautiful and softness of Ms. Holiday's voice. I like that they put nice upbeat dance music and beats and joined them togther with her softness and charsmatic voice.
Of course, i wish there was more, but then again, it wouldn't be a "remixed" cd now would it? Bravo! |
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| I can't stop listening to this CD. It is absolutely awesome!!! My favorite this week is track four. If you don't have it you gotta get it!!! The remixes are AWESOME!!!! Talk about innovative and change, these remixes are AWESOME. I can't say it enough!!!! |
| Highly Recommended | 2008-01-31 | 5 / 5 |
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| This CD gets better and better upon repeated listenings. Its off the bloody hook really. Every track spot on. If you are a jazz purest, or struggle with other genres there is a 99% chance you will not like something like this. As you can see by other reviewers this one is not everyones bag of bananas. I'm really blown by it. I really am. I can't get over it. She would have loved this. Makes me love her even more. Well done. |
| Loathsome ghouls | 2008-01-25 | 1 / 5 |
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I heard this on the radio and just about lost my lunch. It was so horrible to discover that the loathsome ghouls who produced this had stolen Billie's beautiful, beautiful voice from its native setting and imprisoned it in their own soulless wasteland - - just to make a buck off her corpse. Heck, why not? She didn't get mistreated or ripped off enough while she was alive, right?
Hey, guys, can I dig up your dead mamma? I want to paint her skull pink and put it on my lawn along with the gnomes.
Oh. By the way. The backing band? They stink. But that's what you'd expect here. If they had any talent they'd make their own music. Instead all they can try to do is eat the bodies of real humans.
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