Leftfield: Late-Campaign Buff-Up and Album

leftfield: A year on, however, she has given the album a second lease of life as Take Me a Part, the Remixes, according to The Guardian. And she is not the only one giving their latest release a late-campaign buff-up playful synthpop duo MGMT have gifted February's underwhelming fourth album Little Dark Age a thorough overhaul from leftfield electronicist Matthew Dear, while Alt-J just dropped Reduxer, a rap-heavy do-over of their recent Relaxer LP which is, frankly, better than it has any right to be. Translating those accolades into record sales, however, was to prove tricky the album failed to break either the US Billboard Top 100 or UK's Top 50 charts. The remix album has a long history, much of it woeful the sound of fading stars opportunistically belly-flopping beside bandwagons Sly Stone desperately dressing his faultless funk classics up in gaudy disco gear on 1979 turkey Ten Years Too Soon or rockers glumly retooling their hits for dancefloors where they don't belong dance great Shep Pettibone dragging Level 42's Lessons in Love out into an endless, priapic rut on 1987's The Family Edition . And the less said about the millennium-era fad for mashups the better. Consider Brit-soul bohemians Imagination's icy funk getting remixed by godlike DJ Larry Levan for their overlooked 1983 masterpiece Nightdubbing; Soft Cell's accurately titled Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing, which enlivened their perfect perv-pop with some of the first MDMA to enter the UK; A Tribe Called Quest rewiring their debut with dancehall skank and Carly Simon's midlife ennui on 1992's Revised Quest For The Seasoned Traveller; or Bj rk stripping back her intense 2015 breakup album Vulnicura on Vulnicura Strings. He was like the Messiah' Larry Levan, the DJ who changed dance music forever Read more But then there are those remix albums that redeem this cynical, old-rope-selling concept, reimagining old songs in new contexts, translating artists for different audiences, and uncovering infinite new creative possibilities within the familiar. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.