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Haydn: Symphonies 14, 15, 16, & 17
Music: Musica Pra Ver [Import]
Don't Save Us From the Flames (12" Single)
Emozioni Primavera 2005 [Import]
Defunkt/Defunkt + Thermonuclear Sweat [Extra tracks]
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo Ed Euridice
Endangered Species + Misguided Angels (feat. Goodbye Horses)
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Following the creative peak that was 1994's Orange, Jon Spencer assembled a disparate group of top-drawer friends to remix some of that album's best tracks. He ended up batting just over .500 in the process. Beck and Mike D's treatment of "Flavor" is a sublime meeting of two of the '90s' hippest minds, and UNKLE's reworking of "Bellbottoms" brilliantly frames Spencer at his booty-callin' best. But the Dub Narcotic Sound System's rendering of "Soul Typecast" is painfully square, and Moby's take on "Greyhound" sounds flat and plastic. Still, Experimental Remixes deserves props for its prescience. Beck and UNKLE mainstay DJ Shadow weren't exactly toiling away in obscurity in 1995, but Spencer caught them on their ascent toward making some of the most innovative music of the postgrunge era. Keep an ear out for this album's "hidden" seventh track, a hilarious 18-minute collage of sound- check antics and awkward interviews, the soundtrack to Spencer's own personal Don't Look Back. --Matt Hanks