They’ve given Billie Holiday the remix treatment with reworkings by Nickodemus, DJ Logic, Tony Humphries and others. I think they’re really quality and do her music justice. What do you think?

http://www.giantstep.net/...477_10074/

x laetitia

Hmmm ...

Whilst I like Billie Holiday, I do think her to be somewhat over-rated . I'm more of a Sarah Vaughn man myself.

Having said that, I certainly think Billie deserves better than these remixes .

And this is coming from someone who bought and quite enjoyed an album of Charlie Parker remixes last year, which I thought were interesting overall. At least with Bird, we know he was always a pretty experimental artist.

I'm in two minds here really. It can be fun to draw a moustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa, as it were, cos the original is still there to enjoy and amaze.

I wouldn't rule out some kind of Holiday remix thang if done with respect, originality and taste, but from what I've heard of these ones, they aren't to my taste, and are trying things that seem to go against the spirit of the original music. Sometimes we need to leave well enough alone. There was nothing very wrong with the originals after all.

remixes are stupid and a waste of time..

laetitia23 said:

No,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,absolutely NO!

Try to find Verve Remixed

http://www3.sympatico.ca/...8verve.jpg

It's got a Tricky remix of Strange Fruit that actually works.