Remixes 2003 [Import]

Mylene Farmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 25, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polydor Import
• ASIN: B0000W61YM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,975 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sans Confregacon (JCA REMIX)

2. L Instant X - The X Key Mix By One -t

3. L Ame -stram -gram

4. Cest Une Belle Journee

5. Xxl

6. Je Taime Melancolie

7. Porvu Quelles Soient Douces

8. California

9. Libertine

10. Optimistique-moi

11. Desenchantee

Editorial Reviews

Limited digipak edition of the French pop superstar's 2003 remix album features 11 tracks including contributions from JCA, One-T, David Snell, Devil Head, Junkie XL, Delix Da Housecat, Paul Oakenfold, Romain Tranchart & Rawman, Junior Jack, & Thunderpuss. Universal.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mylene has nothing to do with this CD, January 4, 2004

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Alexander (New York, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remixes 2003 (Audio CD)

I would like to throw some information in on this disc. According to the Internet sources, Mylene Farmer herself had nothing to do with the album. It was the initiative of the recording company, and, therefore, singer can't be blamed for the flaws that the CD has.
Overall, I think it is a good quality album that serves the purpose, considering that it was released for a certain target group. I think that group has been satisfied.
And if a customer is a real Mylene fan, it can't be a waste of money to purchase this item.
Good luck.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Farmer Rocks, February 26, 2004

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Damion J. Rowan "-DJR-" (Montreal, QC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Remixes 2003 (Audio CD)

I am in absolute and TOTAL disagreement with Hitriman...and I don't get his review or stance at all. Living in Montreal, I have been exposed to Ms. Farmer's music for years. I became a fan when she released the 2CD set "Dance Remixes" in 1992 and I've paid close attention ever since. And just as that album brought Ms. Farmer to a whole new audience and a whole new clubland, this remix album brings her to a whole new level.

A big fan of remix albums, many of them fall flat (like the bonus remix disc in the PSB Box Set). But this one delivers two-fold. As the double CD set from 1992 just offered sorta extended versions of her singles with stronger beats and whispy effects, which was great in her case, the remixes on there are exceptional club mixes, this compilation offers total reworkings of her songs, and that IS what a remix truly should be. It should take the song, and turn it into something COMPLETELY different, hence it not being s VERSION but a RE-MIX.

If you have nothing to compare it to, as this is your first exposure to this brilliant French chanteuse, you will not really get a grasp of her style, as this album is a compilation of remixer's styles...and a fantastic one at that. If someone is going to put out a remix album, don't just compile ten songs that sound like the originals, but are longer. How lame is that? Make an album of REMIXES...something that, thankfully, more artists have grasped.

"Sans Contrefacon" is a fantastic track, but I just wish it had been ever so slightly more vocal. It kicks off the album very well, however. The remixes of "L'Instant X" and "XXL" are absolutely amazing and make both songs FAR better than the questionable originals... JXL is at the top of his game here, as the chorus just SOARS in his mix...and the bells in One-T's mix are awesome and the mix has such a great summer feel.

Full Intention, often being hit-and-miss, do ok with "L'Ame-Stram-Gram," as they use the same little guitar riff that Stardust used for their mega-hit "The Music Sounds Better with You." It's not a bad mix, but doesn't really go anywhere, thus the eight minutes do tend to drag a bit as the song becomes sorta a forgetful atypical club song. They should have cut down the length some, but I digress... Many might say the same of "C'est un Belle Journee," but the laid-back feel of this mix works well, I think, and it's only just a notch over five minutes...

The album kicks into super high gear with the absolute brilliance of Felix da Housecat. He took my favourite Mylene song, "Je T'aime Meloncholie," and made it into an absolutely SUPERB electro track. The song, being so dark and reverent, really needed a dark, deep mix, and Felix executed that with absolute PERFECTION. By far, the second best mix on the album. The mix of the vocals made shivers go up my spine. If I weren't in public the first time I heard it, I woulda been bouncing all over the place.

The same goes with Y-Front's mix of "Libertine," probably one of Ms. Famrer's best known songs, as Y-Front turned the song into an electro-80s flashback and they did it absolutely brilliantly, letting this incredible song soar in a whole new electronic light.

Both the mixes for "California" and "Optimistique-Moi" are very good club tracks that easily keep the NRG flowing throughout the second part of the disk.

But then there's the grand finale of Thunderpuss' absolute club ANTHEM mix of one of the best songs of the last twenty years, "Desenchantee." By far, the best mix on the album, as would be true with any album that included a mix by the now-defunct duo. What they did to this song...the impossible: they took a song already packed with energy, and brought new life and even MORE energy to it. To explain this mix goes beyond words...and you could not ask to a better conclusion to this album.

The compilation's biggest fault? What the hell were they thinking including Paul Oakenfold's HORRIBLE and COMPLETELY useless remix of "Pourvu Qu'elles Soient Douces"??? Oakenfold has does nothing but crap remixes for the last two years, and this mix was just another sign that maybe he should either go back to his heavy-duty club mix days when he was brilliant, or retire for good, before we have to sit through another mix like this. Sorry, Hitriman, but Oakenfold's mixes of the last few Madonna songs have been an embarrassment to him, along with everything else he has remixed lately (save J. Lo's "I'm Glad," which was the one good thing he has done, period, in the past few years), and they have all just been a complete aural waste of time.

If you want a fanstastic mix of "Pourvu Qu'elles Soient Douces," check out Boutonnat & Rogen's Remix Club on the 1992 double CD.

Ms. Farmer's "Remixes" is an astounding collection of styles, beats and rhythmes and, besides Oakenfold, a must-have for any fan, and a definite worthwhile purchase for anyone curious about Mylene...or just wanting a great dance album.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Originals Preferred, January 3, 2004

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James M. Freedberg "michaelfsb" (Salem, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Remixes 2003 (Audio CD)

Some of these remixes work nicely, others less so, but none equals the original version in sonic complexity, lyric wit, or -- curiously enough -- danceability. Best is Felix da Housecat's recreation of "Je t'aime melancholie"; also likeable are the remixes of "Californie," "Optimistique-moi," and "Libertine" -- her very first hit single (1986) and one that she herself has frequently re-arranged (including as a power rock song, on the LIVE A BERCY cd). Much less succesful are the new versions of "Pourvu qu'elles soient douce," "Sans contrefacon," and "L'ame-stram-gram." As for Thunderpuss's remix of "Desenchantee," I disagree with Woofbear; the sonic overkill of the remix -- overkill is a Thunderpuss specialty -- squashes all the subtlety, and almost all of the disillusionment, out of Farmer's original -- and a Farmer song without subtlety is like Gerard Depardieu without a nose.

Note to Woofbear: "Desenchantee" appears on 1991's L'AUTRE, not on the 1988 CD AINSI SOIT-JE.