A Six Degrees Collection: Christmas Remixed - Holiday Classics Re-Grooved

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 21, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Six Degrees
• ASIN: B0000DC3TL
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,815 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (A Shrift Remix)

2. Bing Crosby - Happy Holidays (Beef Wellington Remix)

3. Dean Martin - Jingle Bells (Dan The Automator Remix)

4. Kay Starr - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Stuhr Remix)

5. The Cathedral Brass - Joy To The World (Mocean Worker Remix)

6. Johnny Mercer - Winter Wonderland (Rise Ashen's Brazilian Beach Mix)

7. Charles Brown - Merry Christmas Baby (MNO Remix)

8. The Berlin Symphony Orchestra - The Nutcracker Suite (Baz Kuts Breaks Mix)

9. Louis Armstrong & Velma Middleton - Baby, It's Cold Outside (Mulato Beat Remix)

10. Duke Ellington - Jingle Bells (Robbie Hardkiss Remix)

11. Bing Crosby - The First Noel (Attaboy House Party Mix)

12. Mel Tormé - The Christmas Song (Michael Kessler Open Fire Mix)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gang singing is a lot more fun than you'll ever know, December 3, 2004

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Six Degrees Collection: Christmas Remixed - Holiday Classics Re-Grooved (Audio CD)

Someone had the bright idea to take a bunch of old Christmas records, and letting modern DJs remix them. Amazingly, it works. All of the remixes are at least somewhat interesting, and some of them are actually quite good. I know that putting modern beats on old songs sounds like a strange idea, but somehow they pulled it off. If you want to hear some old Christmas chestnuts with a new twist, this is the CD for you.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best new holiday cd in a long time!, December 19, 2003

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Therese Frantzen "my cats too fat" (Minneapolis, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Six Degrees Collection: Christmas Remixed - Holiday Classics Re-Grooved (Audio CD)

I had a hard time getting this locally because apparently every time my local store played it, it would sell out the stock! Got it on the net.....Best songs "Ive got my love to keep me warm",
Kay Starr and "Merry Christmas Baby", Charles Brown. The best way to explain this music, it that it makes you feel like you're been drinking even though you haven't.....that GOOD.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best lounge Christmas CD to date, November 30, 2003

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Howard E Bowers "howbowers" (St. Petersburg, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Six Degrees Collection: Christmas Remixed - Holiday Classics Re-Grooved (Audio CD)

If you're a fan of the "Verve Remixed" series, then yule want this CD under your aluminium tree this Christmas (bad pun intended). The same concept is at work here, as contemporary DJs deconstruct and rebuild classic recordings of holiday favorites. Remember the funky remix of "Jingle Bells" on the Gap commericals from a few years back? This material is similiar both in style and quality.

Standouts for me are tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 12, remixed by Shift, Dan the Automator, Mocean Worker, Baz Kuts, Mulato Beat, and Michael Kessler respectively. Anyone who can actually make "The Nutcracker Suite" cool (and change a 3/4 waltz into a 4/4 hip-hop swing) deserves a little something extra in their egg nog.

I listened to the Reindeer Room 2 CD, and Chrsitmas Remixed is far superior. I'd be begging for a follow up, but this is going to be a hard act to follow.