Saturday, May 01, 2004


Pavement Cracks (Gabriel & Dresden Mixshow Edit) - Annie Lennox [✯✯✯]


This one’s a little tougher to review properly, because hearing it makes me want to hear a different version of the song. I think the vocal is excellent — a full 20+ years after Sweet Dreams, Lennox still has a helluva set of pipes. What I’m not enthusiastic about at all is the lackluster commercial trance backing her up here in this remix.

In this sense, this free song has probably done its job more than any of the others so far in the series, in that it makes me want to buy other tracks by the artist: in this case, I want to find an arrangement that better serves the singer. Sadly, the perfect version doesn’t seem to be present on this EP, as the mixes, at least from the 30-second excerpts, they all seem to be decidedly lackluster. I’d love to hear her work with i:Cube, or Funkstörung, or maybe Kirk Degiorgio, for example.


:: Dave Walker 10:39 (EST/EDT) [+]

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gummi wrote:

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Kirk Degiorgio.... on the iTMS!! Oh My Lord. And I was thinking there would be nothing I could buy when they open in Europe. Now all we need is for him to re-release the ART compilation stuff and send it along, and I'll join the long ranks of hypocrites and gladly pony up my euros for that. Unlikely, though. ;)
d.w. wrote:

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They've actually got a halfway respectable slate of indie labels signed up -- it's been a gradual thing. I would also *love* to see some crazy out of print stuff like early ART show up.



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