Remixed

Sarah McLachlan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 16, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista
• ASIN: B00011RFBU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,004 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The music of Sarah McLachlan is reincarnated as electronica on this stellar remix CD highlighted by such favorites such as "Fear," "Sweet Surrender," "Angel," and "Hold On." While McLachlan's ethereal voice and heartfelt lyrics have been the main attraction for years, they reach new heights among the nimble orchestrations of William Orbit, Dusted (Dido's brother Rollo and producer Mark Bates), the Welsh trio Hybrid, and other mixmasters. Holland's DJ Tiesto transforms "Sweet Surrender" into an infectious landscape of synth washes and techno rhythms; BT (a.k.a. Brian Transeau) turns "I Love You" into an 11-minute wee-hour dance-floor epic; Orbit takes "Black" to a new dimension with quiet strings and plodding, piercing tones; and DJ Fade's "Plenty" winds the disc down with earthy, mesmerizing beats. Throughout, McLachlan's voice soars. Both lovers of electronica and the Canadian songwriter and will find much to embrace in this collection. --Rebecca Robinson

Product Description

Import-only comp. packed with nine of the best dance mixes by top mixers such as Hybrid, DJ Tiesto, Rollo, BT, Rabbit In The Moon & William Orbit, of nine of the Canadian supers tar's best songs, including 'Sweet Surrender', 'I Love You', 'Angel', 'Possession', 'Hold On' and Delerium's smash 'Silence'. 2001 release. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definately Worth Buying!!!, July 24, 2001

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"alanmykael" (Tampa, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remixed (Audio CD)

Being a huge fan of Sarah's for many years now, I've heard plenty of remixes, some great, some not so great. This is definately the best of the best here.

1) Hybrid takes Sarah's "Fear" to another level. This is my all-time favorite Sarah song and I had some high hopes for Hybrid's remix of it, and they didn't disappoint. Other remixes just didn't capture the haunting feel and gripping desperation and emotion of the original, yet Hybrid manages to do this and take it even higher. Definately my favorite track. In my opinion, this mix alone is worth buying the album.

2) DJ Tiesto's remix of "Sweet Surrender" is an intricate dark mix that is definately a pleasure to listen to and takes the song in a new direction.

3) Dusted's remix of "Angel" takes an otherwise much-too-sappy song and transforms it into something worth listening to more than once. The track has a nice, mellow feel to it that doesn't try to blatently tug at your heart-strings like the original, therefore giving it another layer the song previously lacked.

4) The same goes for BT's remix of "I love you", except this is more of a beat to which you could get up and dance a little. I'm a huge fan of BT and really like what he did with this song.

5) DJ Tiesto takes "Silence", a song everyone's heard about a billion times unless you never leave the house, and puts a fresh new spin on it.

6) William Orbit, who gave Madonna an electronic make-over with her album "Ray of Light", mixes "Black" in a trippy, euphoric fashion. This is a good track and was featured on the "X-Files: Fight the Future" soundtrack.

7) Rabbit in the Moon's remix of "Possession" is a classic that was on Sarah's b-sides album.

8) BT's mix of "Hold On" keeps a lot of elements of the original, guitar and all, but gives it an upbeat funkiness. He also keeps it interesting by splitting Sarah's vocals in some parts.

9) Fade's mix of "Plenty" is probably the weakest track on album. It's not bad, just fairly repetitive and doesn't really go anywhere or do anything for the song. They should've put this in the middle somewhere, instead of having it finish out such an otherwise spectacular album.

All in all, an awesome cd. Pick it up if you're so inclined. I doubt you'll regret it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well mIxed, for the money!, April 13, 2002

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Anthony Morelli "Woofbear" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remixed (Audio CD)

Like my title says, Remixed is definitely worth the money. I finally bought the cd after himming and hawing for months. The result? It's fantastic, and the remixing is beyond just interesting. It's great.
Sometime's remixing a song can be tough, especially if it's a really slow song, which requires lots of work, but Remixed proves to us that any type of music can be remixed.

Sarah McLachlan has the type of voice that is fun, funky and angelic all boxed up in one great album, no matter what she puts out on the market. I thought of this when listening to the song Fear (Hybrid't super collider mix). There is a lot of vocal touches and little things that make this a great remix song.
I like the fact that the remixers didn't distort the original key that the songs were recorded in. It does a lot of good for the artist's song when the original tone is respected!

Angel (Dusted remix) is another one of those hard-to-let-go-of songs. Since the first time I heard it in someone's car, as they passed on the road, I wanted the cd. That's basically what started me off to wanting the cd so badly. It all happened while I was music window shopping, and I couldn't afford the cd. A guy was blasting the whole cd in his car with the windows open. He seemed to circle the area where I was the whole time, finally urging me to buy the cd, after almost 5 months went by.

All the remixes are excellent, and are perfect for any day listening. I call the cd my "car washing day" cd, because that's when it's blasted the loudest.

Here is the tracklist:
1-Fear (Hybrid's super collider mix) 2-Sweet surrender (DJ Tiesto Mix) 3-Angel (Dusted remix) 4-I love you (BT mix)
5-Silence (DJ Tiesto's In search of sunrise remix)
6-Black (William Orbit mix) 7-Possession (Rabbit in the moon mix) 8-Hold on (Bt Mix) 9-Plenty (Fade mix)

The graphics on the cover of the cd are beautiful, and I was drawn to the cd since it was released. Unfortunately, I waited too long to enjoy the cd when it was new. Cheers to the remixers and to Sarah herself for allowing her great songs to be re-touched and let out into the light once again.

One complaint. They forgot to include a remix of Vox and Into the fire. These two songs are biggies, and would have sounded great remixed, but I guess it was better to leave them alone the way they were intended to be...Go and buy Sarah Mclachlan Remixed now. You'll love it!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but could've been better., November 15, 2001

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Corey Blanchette (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remixed (Audio CD)

Sarah McLachlan definitely has the voice of a trance music diva. Label mate BT, as well as other well-known remixers like Wm Orbit & DJ Tiesto have taken her songs and mixed them into club & rave masterpieces. There's only 9 tracks on this import-only CD, and most of them have turned up before. "Sweet Surrender" is on the Plastic 5 compilation, "I Love You" is on Ultimate Dance Party 2000 & Plastic 3, "Black" is the remix on the X-Files movie soundtrack, "Possession" is on Sarah's Rarities album and doesn't even have the same trance music feel as the rest of the newer remixes on this compilation... so only 1/2 of the album is new to die-hard Sarah fans. The Dusted Remix of "Angel" takes some getting used to; I didn't like it at first, but it grew on me. The BEST track on this album is the 12 minute "Silence" remix by TJ Tiesto, which will be a club gem for years. Who would've thought when Delerium's album came out in the Spring of 1997 that YEARS later the song would take off? Nettwerk is doing a really good job on cashing in on Sarah's old music and giving her fans something to enjoy until her new album comes out.