Motown Remixed, Vol. 2
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Free Music Notes for Motown Remixed, Vol. 2
Free Music Review: RESPECT that's the main thing !
Hit: 4 Stars
First, I'm NOT into remixes BUT when it's done with RESPECT for the original... In this case, IT IS. You exactly recognise the song and that's already a very positive thing. You really hear another way, another style without losing the greatness of the song itself. You can agree or disagree. Never touch a good thing ofcourse but these tracks prove that they could be hits from the future, instead of the past.
GREAT WORK.
Free Music Review: If a 3rd remix CD is released, I WILL preview it before purchasing
Hit: 2 Stars
Even though I just got the CD and only listen to it once, I think I'll burn my two favorites and shelf it. I liked CD 1, and just picked up 2 assuming it would be better but didn't. The only cut that I really liked and ended up cleaning to was the Marvin Gaye remix. It's housey enough to build up a sweat and get a few chores done. I would love if they did another CD making it a truly club/house with no breaks. Can you image 80+ minutes mixed together with echoes, bass and beats? Man.... Oh yeah, if anyone from Motown is reading this, please don't repeat songs on the next CD that were featured on the two previous. Choose another song by the group/artist or release a EP with 5+ versions if you really feel the need. I'm hopeful, and may even grow to like # 2 more -but still won't buy the next remix on impulse.Free Music Review: The perfect bad idea
Hit: 1 Stars
When a record company doesn't know what to do, there is always somebody with the remix album idea. So Motown UK issued volume 1. This remix album isn't different from the others : at first we are curious about the changes mades with the song but that doesn't last because a remixer is a guy that replaces true musical ideas with repetitive gimmicks. Anyway Tom Moulton did a great job for ?Stoned love? and ?My world is empty without you? is actually good. Now comes volume 2 (a short one with short mixes : 48 min. long for 11 songs). And it's trully dreadful. Who gave the green light for such trash ? All songs have a Latin American sound that doesn't mix well with Motown. At least a sticker on the cd would have warned the buyer ! The worst is ?The boss? by Ross remixed ?a-la-Colombian-buseta? : they took one of the few Motown disco songs that has stood the test of time and they destroyed it ; they took off all disco elements from it, leaving the vocals naked and they put an irritating vallenato-like background that doesn't match (both keys are differents ; does the remixer Manuel Ruiz have ear ?). Luckily, this volume is available in just one form (the first volume was available in two differents cds with different tracklistings and with I.tunes bonuses). Well, I hope that this cd is the end of the series.Free Music Review: Boring remixes of Motown classics
Hit: 2 Stars
Perhaps a finely tuned club sound system with a fleet-fingered DJ at the helm could send these remixes soaring about the room. But played at home, these dissected, reassembled and electronically augmented versions of classic Motown tracks are more likely to send you searching for the original recordings -- forty year old tracks that will get your blood pumping faster than these cobbled together works. Unlike the multi-disc deconstruction of "Pet Sounds" that let listeners hear the vocals and instrumentals taken apart, the few transcendent moments of isolated vocal lines here are overrun by pedestrian drum machines, loops and studio manipulations that induce boredom rather than trance. This might resonate musically and emotionally with regular club visitors, but to the home listener they sound like a bad night at the Roxbury or a technologically advanced version of Stars on 45. Either way, they've squandered some of the greatest hooks in musical history. [?2007 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]Free Music Review: definitely successful
Hit: 4 Stars
Summer is officially here, and there is nothing I want to do more than sit by the pool with a mojito. When I received Motown Remixed, Vol. 2 I expected it to be a tranced-out dance mix, but was pleasantly surprised to find out it was not that at all. Instead, the tracks are remixed with Calypso sounds making old favorites sound like Harry Belafonte Caribbean beats. The songs are still recognizable, which is usually not the case with remixes and get you ready for sunbathing at the beach. I found Jr. Walker & the All Stars' "Shot Gun" and the Jackson 5's "Dancing Machine" to be the most successful mixes on the album, almost making you forget that there was no steel drum in either band.
Not every track is helped by the playful summer sound though, like The Temptation's "Papa was a Rolling Stone." The definitive funkiness of the opening baseline is softened by a sweet, summer playfulness that I found to take away from the original tone of the song. The disc as a whole was definitely successful, making me imagine fruity drinks and island getaways, while still staying true to those old soulful favorites of the '60s and '70s.
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