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The million dollar mixing board on the cover isn’t just for
show. Hybrid’s massive and detailed production makes its way
from debut album Wider Angle and into a mix album
of their remix work. Like their debut, Hybrid prefers to distance
themselves from familiar sounds, samples, and breaks that
you may hear in other club material and work progressively
work from the ground up, creating their moving sound from
scratch. Moby liked their version of “Bodyrock” so much that
Hybrid was asked to join him on his American tour and they
have since completed remix work for many others artists including
BT, who’s sound closely resembles that of Hybrid. Both artist’s
material can stir quite the rush and the fact that both of
these artists may have a substantial budget to work with could
be a contributing factor. In addition to the classical musical
training of both BT and Hybrid, one listen proves that some
top dollar synths and software are hard at work and it seems
that they have invested a considerable amount of time into
their training and engineering skills. There is a lot of great
dance material in existence but you can clearly hear the difference
in their sound.
All of the remixes flow together over the course of the album
and Hybrid keeps their musical fingerprint on each of them.
However, the tracks that really stand out are the tunes that
already achieve musical greatness with the previously recorded
vocal work. The two real roof-blowing highlights are both
BT’s “Never Gonna Come Back Down” featuring ex-Soul Coughing
vocalist, Mike Doughty and the following track, “Take A Picture”
by Filter. Both songs are given that extra emotional punch
by combining the most expressive production with the rousing
emotion of strong vocal talent. As demonstrated by Future
Sound Of London’s “Papua New Guinea,” a majority of the source
material on the album already holds its own so this collection
is guaranteed for success. Top-notch producers remixing talented
artists with the occasional stellar vocal contributions can’t
be anything but wonderful.
-Justin Hardison
- “Accelerator” – Jagged Little Pill
- “Café Del Mar” – Energy 52
- “Glorious” – Andreas Johnson
- “Bodyrock” – Moby
- “Never Gonna Come Back Down” – BT
- “Take A Picture” – Filter
- “Papua New Guinea” – The Future Sound Of London
- “Bad Girl” – DJ Rap
- “Vernon’s Wonderland” – Vernon’s Wonderland
- “Enter The Monk” – Monk & Canatella
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