Gen Kanai wrote:
> I would highly recommend the Body&SOUL compilations which are out on Wave
> Records. #1 and #2 are awesome. #3 is out but I haven't heard it
> yet. Joe usually has one or two tracks on those comps.
#3 is quite good, a very good portrait of the last year at
the club, including the pitched-down UR track and the all-out
Kenny Bobien nirvana-inducer.
If you buy it now you get Blaze/Louie Vega's "Elements of
Life", which will soon be replaced with Men From the Nile's
"Watch Them Come". Both are excellent.
It would be impossible to list/find all of Claussell's
productions. I usually think of his remixes as improvements
on the original tracks, kind of like how Jazzanova always
makes the original track better.
He has plenty of work on Ibadan and Spiritual Life. Unfortunately,
just about all of it is now out of print, especially the gorgeous
Ten City remixes he's done. Jerome Sydenham from Ibadan promises
a Ten City remix package eventually.
Lately he's remixed everyone. You can easily find his remixes
for Santessa, Cesaria Evora, Beth Orton, Ananda Project, Mutabaruka,
and others on the net.
He's been doing a lot of Japanese work lately, with remixes
for people like Calyn, Monday Michiru and even Ronny Jordan
(ah, the old acid jazz days...remember the DJ Krush/Ronny Jordan
album?). The Ronny Jordan is gone, no chance of finding it.
If you're willing to part with some serious money, you can still
get some of his stuff at Dub Spot in NYC (www.dubspot.com)
There are other remixes that are just rumoured to exist (like
the Cassandra Wilson one) but will probably never see the light
of day.
> He used to be a part owner of Dance Tracks, a disco/garage record store in
> the East Village but I have heard that he no longer is.
Joe split with Dance Tracks a few years back-- you can see that
Stefan Prescott (the owner) is no longer credited on the Spiritual
Life 12"s.
As was previously mentioned, the Nitin Sawhney remix is sublime.
It will come out soon on Spiritual Life, and is out now on the
Outcaste compilation that came out a couple weeks back.
But you haven't heard Joe until you've heard him at Body & Soul.
There is nothing better in this world than hearing him abuse the
EQ and bring music to life.
Jonathan
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Oct 22 2000 - 00:13:28 MET DST