FW: Grammies - Dance Catagory

Araya, Juan Carlos
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 08:44:49 -0500


David Morales remixes of Jamiroquai are just ... terrible. Even
Jamriquai themselves on interviews expressed their dissatisfaction on
the remixes. Replacing the horns with synths. No sense for taste. Just
BOOM BOOM BOOM! I bet he'll get the grammie. Politics you know ...

Juano
jaraya@lucent.com

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>From: Tim Kemp[SMTP:pp0u7078@liverpool.ac.uk]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 7:56 AM
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Grammies - Dance Catagory
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>At 15:15 16/02/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>At 07:54 AM 2/16/98 -0500, Araya, Juan Carlos (Juan) wrote:
>>>Did you here that the Grammies this have a dance music catagory and
>>>David Morales is one of the nominees. David Morales?!? There are way
>>>better DJ/Producers out there. Its almost as bad as picking Jethro Tull
>>>as best Metal band.
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>David Morales - bought Jamiroquai's sound to the dance-floor masses. Fair
>credit for that, although it seems that he spends most of his time Turd
>Polishing (i.e. remixing, witness the remix/rehash of the Spice Girl's
>'Who do you think you are)
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>And don't a single one of you readers think I'm defending this guy... ;-)
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>Are these grammies the US equivalent of our Brit awards?
>If so they only exist so as the record companies can boost poor
>post-Christmas sales of last year's albums.
>
>Pure commercialism...
>
>Tim Kemp
>pp0u7078@liv.ac.uk
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