| Remixed & Reimagined | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6858
Category: Music
Artist: Billie Holiday
Publisher: Sony Legacy
Studio: Sony Legacy
Manufacturer: Sony Legacy
Label: Sony Legacy
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 85088
UPC: 828768508824
EAN: 0828768508824
ASIN: B000NA283Y
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | I Hear Music (Swingsett & Takuya's Mighty Fine Remix) | | • | More Than You Know (Jazzeem's Throwback Remix) | | • | Spreadin' Rhythm Around (Lady Bug vs. Lady Day RR Remix) | | • | Long Gone Blues (GXR Remix) | | • | Trav'lin' All Alone (Nickodemus & Zeb Remix) | | • | He Ain't Got Rhythm (Poppyseed Remix) | | • | Summertime (Organica Remix) | | • | I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key) (Madison Park Remix) | | • | Glad To Be Unhappy (DJ Logic Remix) | | • | Billie's Blues (Daniel Y Remix) | | • | You're So Desirable (Sunday People Remix) | | • | Pennies From Heaven (Count De Money Remix) | | • | But Beautiful (Tony Humphries THP Remix) | | • | All Of Me (Charles Feelgood Remix) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Hot on the heels of Nina Simone's like-minded project, this 14-track disk takes Billie Holiday's masterful and mourning vocals of 1935 to 1958 to the 21st-century digital dance floor, courtesy of some resourceful remixers and DJs from Swingsett & Takuya and Nickodemus & Zeb to Organica and Poppyseed. You have to give these aural alchemists credit for their daring, but some tracks work better than others. The best include "Spreadin? Rhythm Around," featuring Digable Planet's Ladybug Mecca, the echoplexed embers of GXR's "Long Gone Blues," DJ Logic's string-centric "Glad to be Unhappy," and Daniel Y's infectious, Soul to Soul/Loose Ends grooved "Billie's Blues." With augmentation provided by live guitarists, keyboardists, and percussionists, these scientists of sound don't desecrate the gardenia-wearing goddess's eternal artistry; rather, they globally reposition it for this era's electronica-fueled iPod generation, from the downbeat to the download. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 HOT!!!!! If you love Trip Hop, House, and acid Jazz, this remix is for you!!!! May 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Every song is perfectly remixed with an ambiance of House, Down Tempo, Trip Hop, Funk, and Acid Jazz. If you want to hear Billie Holiday in her natural style then buy the original Billie CD's but if you love remixes that take the past and make it a blast for todays generation, this is it!!! The flow of the CD never misses a beat. Each song is perfect in its remix style. This is much better then the Nina remix because it's smoother and the producers really meshed Billie Holidays vocals and original music to the new remix style they intended. Once again, if your looking for original Billie this is not the CD for you but if you want original Billie with a bit of Cayenne Pepper this is it!!!!
What did you EXPECT? It's a REMIXED cd people, not a REMAKE February 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loooooved the cd. It helps people my generation understand the beautiful and softness of Ms. Holiday's voice. I like that they put nice upbeat dance music and beats and joined them togther with her softness and charsmatic voice.
Of course, i wish there was more, but then again, it wouldn't be a "remixed" cd now would it? Bravo!
AWESOME February 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can't stop listening to this CD. It is absolutely awesome!!! My favorite this week is track four. If you don't have it you gotta get it!!! The remixes are AWESOME!!!! Talk about innovative and change, these remixes are AWESOME. I can't say it enough!!!!
Highly Recommended January 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This CD gets better and better upon repeated listenings. Its off the bloody hook really. Every track spot on. If you are a jazz purest, or struggle with other genres there is a 99% chance you will not like something like this. As you can see by other reviewers this one is not everyones bag of bananas. I'm really blown by it. I really am. I can't get over it. She would have loved this. Makes me love her even more. Well done.
 Loathsome ghouls January 25, 2008
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
I heard this on the radio and just about lost my lunch. It was so horrible to discover that the loathsome ghouls who produced this had stolen Billie's beautiful, beautiful voice from its native setting and imprisoned it in their own soulless wasteland - - just to make a buck off her corpse. Heck, why not? She didn't get mistreated or ripped off enough while she was alive, right?
Hey, guys, can I dig up your dead mamma? I want to paint her skull pink and put it on my lawn along with the gnomes.
Oh. By the way. The backing band? They stink. But that's what you'd expect here. If they had any talent they'd make their own music. Instead all they can try to do is eat the bodies of real humans.
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