Still / The Joint : Sugar Hill Remixed [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Sequel Records UK
• ASIN: B000025AM4
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #566,792 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sugar Hill Suite: Voice Mail

2. The Message [Remix]

3. I Can't Stop [Remix]

4. It's Nasty [Remix]

5. Scorpio [Remix]

6. Sugar Hill Groove [Remix]

7. Hey Fellas [Remix]

8. Adventures on the Wheels of Steel [Remix]

9. Pump Me Up [Remix]

Disc: 2

1. Breakdance Electric Boogie [Remix]

2. Funk You Up [Remix]

3. That's the Joint [Remix]

4. Simon Says [Remix]

5. Pump Me Up [Remix]

6. 8th Wonder [Remix]

7. Scorpio [Remix]

8. Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel [Remix]

Editorial Reviews

Full title, 'Still/the Joint Sugar Hill Remixed'. UK compilation where assorted dance music luminaries remix old-skool hip-hop tracks from Sugarhill Records back catalogue to celebrate the label's 20th anniversary. 17 tracks featuring remixes from Roots Manuva, Nightmares On Wax, Red Snapper, Plaid, Freddy Fresh, Coldcut, Freddy Fresh, Two Lone Swordsmen, Rae & Christian and more. 1999.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The U.K. does the Bronx, July 10, 2000

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Derrick A. Smith (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Still / The Joint : Sugar Hill Remixed (Audio CD)

In a move that is by now well-precedented, Sequel enlisted some of the UK's most innovative club/remix producers to overhaul the Sugarhill Records catalog. They couldn't merely update the tracks by giving them contemporary rhythms and production, because the originals continue to be mined for their nascent funk.

So, happily, they went at the remixes with more hubris, radically upsetting the architecture of the originals. On this count, the first disc has a slight edge with epic mixes of "Pump Me Up" and "Wheels of Steel" and a bombastic "Sugar Hill Suite." Disc Two's most interesting track might be Two Lone Swordsmen's remix of "Funk You Up", which submerges the original backing track in their familiar watery mix.

In the end STILL/THE JOINT carries the banner for creative remixing and has spawned a few new classics from classics, which was the probable goal.