Re: Grammies - Dance Catagory

Steve Silvers
Wed, 18 Feb 1998 10:39:09 -0500


Has Morales *EVER* done a good mix?
I've always been disappointed with him.
-steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Araya, Juan Carlos (Juan) <jaraya@lucent.com>
To: 'Acid Jazz Mailing List' <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 1998 9:44 AM
Subject: FW: Grammies - Dance Catagory

>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
>
>>----------
>>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
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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)
>>
>>And don't a single one of you readers think I'm defending this guy... ;-)
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>