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I Thought I Was Over That: Rare Remixed & B-Sides

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Disc Two consists of remixes of many of the groups best recent tracks ("Small Things", "Nin-Com-Pop", "Faking the Books") by the likes of To Roccoco Rot and Two Lone Swordsmen and is JUST OK. None of the remixes come near the perfection of the originals. Whatever charm these remixes possess is transitory at best. One would think that the hushed ambience that characterizes Lali Puna's sound would allow for all kinds of marvelous interventions/expansions/diminutions, but most of the results prove otherwise.
On the other hand, Lali Puna themselves are excellent at inhabiting the space of others, whether by remixing (Two Lone Swordsmen's "It's not the worst I've looked", Dntel's "(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan") or via remakes: Slowdive's "40 Days" and, best of all, the long forgotten (but not by me!) collaboration between Giorgio Moroder and Phil "Human League" Oakley, "Together in Electric Dreams." All these tracks are on Disc One, and here the Amazon reviewer is spot on: Disc One is just about the best Lali Puna album ever. Besides all these gems, there is the thunderous beauty of "Clear Cut", their brilliant collaboration with Bomb the Bass.
If you buy this CD for disc one, treating disc two as a kind of bonus disc, you can't go wrong.

Lali Puna is like nothing you've heard ever before. They grow on you faster than you wink. In this compilation, they gather songs that are covers, new tunes, remixes they did for alike musicians like Boom Bip or DNTEL, and remixes that other people like To Rococo Rot, Two Lone Swordsmen, and Alias did of their songs. The remixes are fresh and sort of give the tracks a twist, and they still sound wonderful. This is pure downtempo, sometimes with a touch of glitch. Valerie, who sings, has a very lovely voice and I think you can't go wrong when buying a Lali Puna record. These 2 albums include the beautiful songs "The Daily Match", "Together In Electric Dreams", "40 Days" and "Past Machine". You don't necessarily have to know all of the songs to enjoy the mixes. They are cool per se. If you like the pop-electronica, you should definitively go for it. A must-have selection of joyful tunes from the geniuses of Lali Puna.

This is my first Lali Puna encounter and I love it! I think I will buy the whole collection. The music is mellow but interesting enough, so it doesn't make you want to fall asleep or anything. The vocals are soft and seductive and I really like the woman's voice. Over all I give this CD 5 satrs!!!!