Xfm's the Remix Album [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00005V94N
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #610,419 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. My Beautiful Friend (Jagz Kooner Remix) - The Charlatans

2. Pure Morning (Les Rhythmes Digitales Remix) - Placebo

3. Papau New Guinea (Hybrid Remix) - Future Sound Of London

4. Young Fresh N New (Timo Maas Remix)- Kelis

5. Number One (Black Strobe Vocal Remix) - Playgroup

6. Deep Down And Dirty (Jon Carter Basement Mix) - Stereo MCs

7. Lost Vagueness (Deadly Avenger Infantile Vocal)- Utah Saints

8. Daydream In Blue (Medicine Remix) - I Monster

9. I Can Only Dissappoint You (Perfect Club Mix) - Mansun

10. Song For Shelter (Chemical Brothers Remix) - Fatboy Slim

11. Phat Planet (Dave Clarke Remix) - Leftfield

12. Harder Better Faster Stronger (The Neptunes Remix)-Daft Punk

13. Crystal (Lee Coombs Remix) - New Order

14. Planet Rock (Paul Oakenfold Remix) - Afrika Bambaataa

15. Bodyrock (Hybrids Bodyshock Remix) - Moby

16. Squares (Bloah Remix) - The Beta Band

17. Utopia (Tom Middleton Cosmos Vocal) - Goldfrapp

18. La Tristessa Durera (Sunday Social Remix)-Manic St Preachers

19. Im Not Trading (Unkle In Utero) - Sunna

20. American Woman (Timbaland Remix) - Lenny Kravitz

See all 35 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Import compilation based on London's alternative radio station that prides itself in it's fiercely independent nature & approach to music. 'XFM Remix' is a collection based on the stations popular 'Remix' show wherein deck champions, remixers & producers alike rework modern day classics. Highlights include rare remixes of Mansun 'I Can Only Disappoint U' (Perfecto Club Mix), Manic Street Preachers 'La Tristesse Durera (Scream To A High)' (Sunday Social Remix) & Roots Manuva 'Dreamy Days' (Super Furry Animals Remix). 35 tracks. 2002.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pioneering, interesting compilation, October 1, 2002

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alexliamw (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Xfm's the Remix Album (Audio CD)

This compilation is a simple but great idea. Here in London, XFM is the only decent radio station, but boy it is decent! They play brilliant, alternative music across the board and have all sorts of varied shows. One is The Remix, a show where remixes of tracks played on the station are aired. The two DJ's are true music affecianado's, not some celebrity presenter but two people with a passion for great music.

And it's not any two-bit remix that gets played on the show. These are tracks which transform and add to the main track to interesting and creative affect. And here is no less than a TRIPLE CD of the best tracks from the show. As the sleeve notes say, "This album represents those endless hours of trainspotting, vinyl-obsessing and hardcore collecting: were you to track down all these tracks individually, you'd be looking at several years off your life and a second mortgage!" What a class effort!

In most cases this is rock music in dance remixes, but not always. Highlights include the Les Rhythmes Digitales remix of Placebo's Pure Morning, where they transform the punky original to a mournful sounding dance track (vocals kept intact, of course) reminiscent of the best work of Underworld; the budding, euphoric, Lee Coombes remix of New Order's Crystal; the Sunday Social Remix of Manics' La Tristessa Durrera, from a building indie rock track into a grooving dance-rock track reminiscent of Stone Roses and The Music. They even let an unknown DJ remix Gorillaz' 19-2000 in a competition held on the station for the best home-made remix.

Some bands are less suited to beats: particularly those on CD3 (Starsailor, Travis, David Gray), but two of the remixes are the best on the whole CD make it all totally worthwhile:

Mark B and Blade - Ya Don't See The Signs (Grant Nicholas Remix): fantastic remix of a rap song with added grungey guitar and howling rock synths from the frontman of Welsh punk/pop/grunge/indie act Feeder;

and Radiohead - Planet Telex (Karma Sunra Mix): Bends-era Radiohead track remix is simply stunning transformation that is everything a remix should be.

Throughout, vocals are kept intact so still shows what has been done to the original. This is top stuff for remix lovers, fans of alternative music, or rock lovers wanting to get into dance or vice versa: it is a perfect meeting point of the two. It is the coolest, hippest compilation to hit the market in years. A big fat 5 stars.