Tuesday, October 22, 2002

I couldn't go back to the radio disney experiment, I just couldn't. at least you got a taste of the horror! the horror!

spinned a bit of dixie chicks, then moved on to disc one of dimitri from paris' after the playboy mansion, one of '02's best. the 2cd set is split into "a laidback selection" and "an uplifting selection," and both feature some true hidden gems (tata vega's "get it up for love" on the first disc, ts monk's "candidate for love" on the second), classics re-edited by dimitri himself (including harold melvin and the blue notes' "don't leave me this way"!), and remixes you basically can't find anywhere else (tenaglia remixing grace jones' "feel up," de la soul/chaka khan's "all good" as done by can 7). the mixing is note-perfect; the selection is even better.

now I'm on to double easy: the u.s. singles, another perfect "hits" collection, this one by happy mondays. yeah, I brought it in 'cause I'm still in a 24 hour party people kinda thing, but this is a singles record I return to over and over. it does such an ace job of summing up the mondays' output, and legacy - it doesn't misfire once. from the opener, their first single, "24 hour party people," through to "sunshine & love" and "angel" from their swansong yes, please!, all their (u.s.) singles are collected here, along with crucial remixes - important because the mondays made a true marriage of indierock and dance music, as they could've only in manchester (at the time). sterling stuff. [while you're at it, pick up shaun ryder's subsequent venture, black grape's it's great when you're straight... yeah, which moves the mondays' vision onto its logical conclusion.]

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