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Another Story

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Courtney Pine has made good albums and as Another Story shows, he has been a great inspiration to many others. Usually hearing re-mixes makes you think about one or two things that are better in the re-mix than in the original. But when you hear this album you just have to admit that actually all the titles have their own stories. All the stories are about their authors. And the authors aren't bad, no not at all: 4hero, Roni Size, Flytronix etc. You know all of them. So you take one of those tracks and hope to hear something from the re-mixer. You'll hear it, but you have never heard anything as good from only himself. You'll never hear sth quite the same good from him in the future. 'Cause he'll never write a song with Courtney Pine. So get you hands on this one quickly.

Another Story, released in 1998, was one of the first disks I bought that introduced me to electro-jazz. The remixes on this disk of tunes from Courtney Pine's Modern Day Jazz Stories and Underground are a grooving blend of drum n'bass, trip hop, big beat and sub-house beats and bass-lines with vintage sounding saxophone riffs and improvisation over the top.
It's tempo ranges from bootie-shakers to foot-tappers and ever since i've bought it i've been playing for friends who loved it immediately, not to mention keeping it on my stereo throughout these six years.
Your record collection won't be a disaster without this, but it'll be a lot better with it.