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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Simon from sydney/untitled [SAW2 CD1 TRK7] - Pram | |||
| 2. Hey Hey! Can u relate? - Luke Vibert | |||
| 3. Kid for today - Stereolab | |||
| 4. When face was face - Isan | |||
| 5. Vletrmx - Plaid | |||
| 6. Untitled [SAW2 CD1 TRACK1] - Fourtet | |||
| 7. Nurture - Sugeon | |||
| 8. Testone - Winston and Ross | |||
| 9. Sal Batardes - Autechre | |||
| 10. Playtime - John Mcentire | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. An eagle in your mind - Push Button Objects | |||
| 2. Wilmot - Red Snapper | |||
| 3. Spine Bubbles - Ellis Island Sound | |||
| 4. Polka trax 3 - Wechsel Garbage | |||
| 5. Freeze - Labradford | |||
| 6. Big loada - Oval | |||
| 7. Booklovers - Andy Votel | |||
| 8. Come to daddy - Richard Devine | |||
| 9. Air eyes - Mira Calix | |||
| 10. Mad jack - Jimi Tenor | |||
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
It's hard to know where to start, with such a dazzling body of work as Warp's third Tenth Birthday celebration compilation, but suffice to say that at the turn of the century, few documents come as close to defining the international musical avant-garde as Remixes. Label bosses Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell offered twenty-five international recording artists the chance to remix a track of their choice from Warp's entire ten year history, and such is everyone's evident enthusiasm that there's barely a bad track on here. High points, then, are hard to pick, but it's a disservice to ignore Four Tet's choppy restructuring of Aphex Twin's sprawling ambience on the ever-awkward "Untitled", John McEntire's warm, whistling patter around Nightmares On Wax's "Playtime" and Mogwai's defiantly individual remix of Link's "Arcadian", which consists of them completely ignoring the original and weaving an instrumental web of beautiful clarity. Much, much else beside, though. --Louis Pattison
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Once upon a time, a remix was an attempt by a producer to make a track more danceable--to pump up the bass, drop an infectious tambourine loop over the steady 4/4 rhythm, and add some echo to spark the crowd's buzz. But in the hands of the Intelligent Dance Music crowd--the style, pioneered by Warp Records, of applying dance-floor technologies to armchair music--the remix took on the in-joke mentality of a postmodern literary trickster. Tracks--not songs, tracks (if they started off as songs they inevitably got turned into tracks)--were pulled inside out, pushed through a filter that replaced beauty with noise and wrung it out to dry. The two-CD remix portion of Warp's 10th anniversary series takes this aesthetic as far as it can possibly go. This is contrariness squared. Oval applies his patented skipping-and-stripping CD methodology to Squarepusher's jittery drill and bass. Four Tet splices his disembodied reconstruction of a jazz rhythm section onto one of Aphex Twin's oddly effectless ambient works. Jim O'Rourke subjects one of Autechre's stop-start sonic mazes to his obsessively detail-oriented studio savvy. The result certainly has a hothouse quality to it, but hey, when you're not out on the dance floor, you've gotta work up a sweat somehow. --Jeff Salamon
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Lets get stright to the point here shall we? If you are at all interested in elctronic music or IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) as it has become know, they you really should have pressed that 'buy now' button already.
This is one almighty remix album which at first I thought was going to be awful because it trys to turn perfection into something different and still make a good 'new' tune. But thats what has been done here.
Stereolab turn Boards of Canada's genius track 'Kid for Today' into a strange trip-hop/rock/hip-hop/elctro esq tune that will leave you smiling if you loved the original track as much as you should.
ISAM, makes Seefeel's 'When Face was face' into one of the best electronic tracks ever.
And Bogdan Raczynski makes some noise for us all the scrath our heads to - its ment to be the sound he thinks of when he is listening to Autechre's EP7 & Envane ep's. But its good of course.
Anyway - your still reading this and I bet you've not pushed the 'buy' button so go on with you now, buy it!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is an absolutely superb collection. The remixers have had a tough job doing justice to these tunes, but in my view they have done a spot-on job. Four Tet have beefed up one of Aphex Twin's "floating" melodies from Ambient Works II without ruining the atmosphere, while Red Snapper's mix of Wilmot by the Sabres of Paradise is a great uplifting and danceable tune with a Latinesque feel. All the tunes are of an extremely high standard, and I recommend this album to anyone with an interest in electronic music, whether they are long-time fans of Warp's output or as an introduction to newcomers. Do it. BUY NOW !!!!
Format:Audio CD
Anyone who enjoys Warp music will captivated by this album, or perhaps pair of albums. With two CDs you - at least I - will find yourself choosing one or the other to play. Perhaps each for different reasons and different moods. Simply marvelous.
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