Behold: a twenty track double LP/double CD with a tracklist that reads like one of. From one of the most eclectic and vast record collections in the world, disco archaeologist Joey Negro combs through a pile of one-time hits and obscure rarities for his first Remixed With Love compilation in over two years. The reworkings, well, work: you’re going to recognize instantly George Benson’s “Love Ballad,” Lose Change’s “Straight From The Heart” and The Trammps’ “Can We Come Together” (the latter given a delicious “Philly Dub Excursion”) hooked up to a disco defibrillator and jolted back into naked, screaming life. Among the delights discovered as Joey worked over the original multi-track recordings were some never before heard pieces on the cutting room floor, like Grace Jones doing some kind of Jane Fonda Workout instruction (shades here of the ).This is also an officially licensed and legal compilation – no sketchy SoundCloud strikes and public apologies here.
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Best of all, given the essential slipperiness of our age: “And the creators of the original tracks are getting paid too – as they damn well should be.”Out: Begins shipping from; elsewhere on March 11 2016.Published first in, February 15 2016.
A mix of well-known classics and more obscure gems make this an album with broad appealDave Lee once more dons his Joey Negro hat to bring us this collection of reworked disco gems, and the results are nothing less than spectacular.As the copious sleevenotes from the man himself explain, the idea behind these remixes wasn't so much to reinvent the tunes involved, as to make them more easily playable on modern dancefloors – giving mix-friendly intros and outros to tracks that didn't have them, for instance. With such a light remix touch applied, the 20 featured cuts generally stay within the realm of actual disco (as opposed to getting a disco-house makeover) - and given that many of the tracks featured are very well known (The O'Jays' I Love Music, for instance, or Gwen McCrae's Keep The Fire Burning, or Grace Jones' Pull Up To The Bumper), those with a half-decent disco collection already may be wondering if this is worth the investment.The answer to that question, though, is a resounding yes. This reviewer owns at least a couple of versions of the aforesaid Keep The Fire Burning already, not to mention several covers, but I've never heard it sounding so life-affirmingly energetic and joyous as it does here. Ditto Ride Like The Wind by Christopher Cross. But if you're still worried, there are some slightly more obscure nuggets to tempt, you too: try Nicolette Larson's Lotta Love, now in an aptly titled Yacht Disco Mix, or Pockets' Come Go With Me.Admittedly, Dave had some particularly fine source material to work with here.
But even the most majestic piece of fine antique wooden furniture will look better if you take it to a master craftsman for a proper French polish instead of just getting out the Pledge – and a master craftsman Mr Lee most certainly is. An essential purchase for anyone with even a passing interest in disco.Words: Russell Deeks.