| Product Summary | | Label: Concord Records | | UPC: 00888072220621 | | Release Date: 8/29/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202864140 | | Item#: M34VT7 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
(C) 2006 Concord Music Group, Inc.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Asdrubal Sierra (vocals, trumpet); Pedro Martinez (vocals, percussion); Cucu Diamantes, Lyrics Born, Xiomara Laugart (vocals); Ra£l Pacheco, Mike Ciro (guitar); Andres Levin (electric guitar); Edmar Casta¤eda (harp, maracas); Ron Blake (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Rashawn Ross (trumpet); Peter Masitti, Selan Lerner (keyboards); Ernesto Simpson (drums); Hermides Benitez (timbales, percussion); Jiro Yamaguchi, Justin "Ni¤o" Por?e (percussion). | | Audio Mixers: Kent Hitchcock; Cut Chemist; Josh Copp; Eduardo Larez; Andres Levin; Steven Barkan. | | Audio Remixers: Eric Hilton; Hex Hector; Carl Cox, Jr.; Rob Garza. | | Liner Note Author: Marc Cazorla. | | Recording information: Fun Machine Studios, New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Pulse Studios, Staten Island, New York, NY; Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Space Bar; STratosphere Sound, New York, NY; The Consulate, Washington DC. | | All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology. | | If the point of a remix is to make something new out of something old, then Explorations: Classic Picante Regrooved surely succeeds. Here are archetypal Latin jazz sides by such giants as Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Eddie Palmieri, Mongo Santamaria, and Cal Tjader put through the remix grinder by hot-button contemporary DJs, producers, and bands, including Thievery Corporation, Ozomatli, Dan the Automator, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Yerba Buena. In several instances, such as Thievery Corporation's remix of Barretto's "Work Song," only trace elements of the source recording are audible, yet the funky, bass-piloted dancefloor pulse that rolls over those elements casts the revision as an innovative, stand-alone entity that doesn't borrow so much as pay homage. Whether reconsidered as a chillout groove or a fiery, pounding assault, the re-creations -- some with new vocals added -- profess reverence for and make reference to the masters, but stop short of bowing down at their altars. If, however, the job of the remixer is to improve upon the original concept, then these studio technicians have sadly been defeated in their quest. Listening to Dan the Automator's re-think of Poncho Sanchez's "Watermelon Man" and Marlo C.'s remix of Charlie Byrd's "Wave" incorporating a newly recorded Brazilian rhythm section, one only longs to revisit the nearly perfect originals. Who needs a remix when the original was perfection personified? ~ Jeff Tamarkin |
Producer: Chris Dunn; Marc Cazorla; Kas Rus Crew; Hex Hector; DJ Afro; Carl Cox, Jr.; Mario C.; Andres Levin |
Engineer: Cut Chemist; Marc Cazorla; David Sussman; Geoff Sanoff; Alex Stiff |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/29/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 2206 | | Label : Concord Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00888072220621 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Global Rhythm (Publication)
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- "[T]his is generally a loving and vigorous look back at some of Latin jazz's most vivacious music." |
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