Remix & Additional Production

Hybrid | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 20, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dist. Breaks [Stu]
• ASIN: B000059T4I
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #375,667 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Accelerator - Jaded Little Pill

2. Cafe Del Mar - Energy 52

3. Glorious - Andreas Johnson

4. Bodyrock - Moby

5. Never Gonna Come Back Down - BT

6. Take A Picture - Filter

7. Papua New Guinea - The Future Sound of London

8. Bad Girl - DJ Rap

9. Vernon's Wonderland - Vernon's Wonderland

10. Enter The Monk - Monk & Canatella

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Remixing up a storm..., March 12, 2001

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"cv2004" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remix & Additional Production (Audio CD)

Hybrid is quite possibly be one of the most talented (though still quite underrated) trance/electronica groups around, and this CD further proves that point. Their first album, 'Wide Angle', was a phenomenal debut. Combining rich orchestral strings with killer breakbeats in a unique film layout (the score to a spy movie never made), it was met with critical acclaim in the UK and is now making waves in the US. Now, 'Remix & Additional Production' sees Mike Truman and the rest of the Hybrid crew headed for success once more.

Here, Hybrid takes a variety of tracks and adds a unique twist. They illuminate the crux of each track while adding their own elements, and as such you may find delightful transformations evident in tracks you've heard of. The list is varied, with classics ('Cafe Del Mar') alongside stranger choices ('Take a Picture'). The soul that is missing from most electronic music is here- the strings in 'Glorious' are simply beautiful, and the haunting piano in 'Never Gonna Come Back Down' adds even more texture to the song. The tracks flow like water into each other, and the long hours of work put into each track is clear.

'Remix & Additional Production' is an incredible remix CD, and is well worth buying, as is 'Wide Angle' if you don't already own it. Hybrid is exceptional high class breakbeat- Mike Truman and co. do it with style, and they do it -well-.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How to win friends, influence people, and drop mad breaks., March 28, 2001

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"ceebertz" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remix & Additional Production (Audio CD)

Let me first espouse that I love Hybrid, and have dutifully bought everything of theirs I could find during the past year. In a genre of paint-by-numbers remixes and jaded DJs, their unique brand of viscous, meaty breaks is obvious from the first loop.

...That said, the track selection on this CD could have been better. Hybrid is capable of such diverse remixing work, it's a shame that everything on here is strictly your garden-variety progressive breakbeat. Perhaps this was intentional, or perhaps certain tracks weren't in the running due to copyright issues. Hybrid's remix of Alanis Morissette's "Your House", for example, might have replaced DJ Rap's "Bad Girl", as well as Morissette's "So Pure" lyrics laid over "Accelerator" - a staple in their live sets - instead of the vocal-less version that opens the album. And that's saying nothing of their take on "Walhalla", or "Phuture 2000", or "Space Manoeuvres", or... get the idea? Although there are a couple of highly forgettable moments (I won't name names, but the ersatz anthem "could you take my picture / 'cause I won't remember" sums it up nicely), the ear-soothing prettiness far outweighs the bad, and it's altogether mixed with the precision one might expect from Sasha & Digweed's "Northern Exposure" series. If you're already a Hybrid fan, you'll adore this disc, and if you're not, it might just make a believer out of you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great cover CD, August 31, 2003

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Chas Fuller (Westminster, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remix & Additional Production (Audio CD)

Satisfying for when you need a Hybrid fix but not as good as their own stuff. Some of these tracks are incredible while others are just ok. I find that the ones I don't like as much were the tracks I never liked originally... go figure.