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With source material being everything to a remixer, it's astonishing that the vaults of legendary Jazz label Verve haven't been raided earlier. Three years in the making, Verve Remixed is the first dip into their riches and aims to put the original dance music back in the hands of the dance fraternity. Yet while MJ Cole and Rae & Christian respectively do superb jobs of turning Carmen McRae's "How Long Has This Been Going On" and Dinah Washington's "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?" into sassy hip swayers, this isn't quite the party piece the esteemed roster of remixers suggests. Instead, Vervemore… Remixed focuses on the label's mellower side, for an impeccably tailored downtempo collection. Sultry highlights, like the voodoo trip-hop of Tricky's remodelled "Strange Fruit" are numerous, but inevitably it's the label's crown jewels which prove most alluring. Nina Simone's "See-line Woman" rumbles like a frenetic locomotive in the hands of Masters At Work, while her finest hour, "Feelin' Good", is reinvented as shimmering soul by Joe Clausell. As for Sarah Vaughan's classic "Summertime", with the spy movie obsessed United Future Organisation turning up the heat haze with an eerie loop of the original song's smouldering string refrain, it's arguably better than the original. --Dan Gennoe

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Music > Collections

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CD

Release Type:

Retail

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Title:

Verve Remixed (2002) Retail CD

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Front

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1429 x 1429 px

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