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Title: Fred Everything - From The Deep Remixes 1998-2001
Review: As good as Fred Everything's Under the Sun was, From the Deep, a collection of his remixes, is better. Why? Fred's ability to take a track, find the essential elements, and rearrange them into house-flavored jams is amazing. He transforms the punk/hip-hop "Astounded" by Bran Van 3000 into a deep journey. The plaintive vocals on Random Factor's "Without You" are given a new insistent quality by his touch, and the Northern Light Orchestra's "Loverboy" becomes even more romantic. It's much easier to mess up a remix of a good than of a bad song, and although his mix of Jaffa's "Elevator" isn't too exciting, his retakes of "It's Complete" by Atjazz or "Watch Them Come" by Roy Davis, Jr. redeem him. Some of the tracks may lag at the end, but that's because they were designed for mixing, rather than listening. It's a compliment to Fred Everything that the tracks work just as well as listening material.
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