Title: Too far a stretch.
Review: I'm not excited by these remixes, though I have very much enjoyed remixes from the bebop/cool 1950's and the R&B;/Funk 1960's.These recordings originally came out around the Depression and WWII, and were originally intended to offer a tender hand of support to the radio listener or dancehall dancer during some lean and uncertain times. Intimacy, warmth, patriotism and encouragement were key.Now, to hear them all filtered and treated and chopped..... sounds, I dunno, disrespectful to me, almost unpatriotic even! (Never thought I'd feel this way). A sort of flippant, coked-out, po-mo ultra-coolness permeates these songs... and it isn't working for me (though, as I say, it DOES work on other genres or manifestations of American pop music...)Am I saying that 1940's Big Band is a little bit.... sacred? Yeah, I guess that's what I'm saying.
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