Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX – We’re New Here (remix)

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Date : 3/5/2011 — Time : 2:13:12 AM

Artist : Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie XX

Album : We’re New Here

Source : CD

Year : 2011

Encoder : exact audio copy 0.96b

Codec : lame 3.91

Quality : CBR, 224kbps, stereo

ID3-Tag : Yes, Version 1 & 2.3

Posted By : on 05-03-2011

Ripped By : unknown on 25-02-2011

Included : This Info-File (NFO)

Review / Description

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If it’s a PR’s wet dream and a canny move by XL Recordings, Jamie xx’s remix of Gil Scott Heron’s 2010 album I’m New Here also results in moments of awesome, arresting soul. Scott Heron is a master of the kind of music I’m talking about, and with his remixer’s grasp of the heart of a track already proven (by remixes of Florence And The Machine’s ‘You’ve Got The Love’ and Adele’s ‘Rolling In The Deep’ respectively), Jamie meets Scott Heron’s propensity for pained tension to reanimate the urban soul of dubstep.

Several genres are actually involved here. By a subtle predominance of dubstep tropes, though, and his dexterous movement between genres, Jamie reminds us that he belongs to a generation synchronic to dubstep whose ability to move across decades and styles is so technologically enhanced that there is no staying put anymore. As well as affirming Jamie’s finger-on-the-pulse understanding of dance music (which is already familiar via his DJ sets), the production shares the minimalism of his Mercury-winning band The xx. The result of this combination is that tracks like ‘Your Soul and Mine’, where echoing sounds pan in and out over a beat that sounds like Kode 9, while in the background disembodied, pitched-up vocals seem to signify juke as much as dubstep, and Scott Heron’s deep spoken-voice is looped like a Chicago house chant, are as simplistically elegant as they are stylistically fluent. On ‘Home’ and ‘My Cloud’ Jamie gives Scott Heron’s heartache a delicate Flying Lotus/Mount Kimbie type of treatment. On ‘Home’, his vocals are only discernible enough to convey vaguely something about domestic pain. But between the distracted skipping of the beat and the struggle for Scott Heron’s already strained words to find their way into the mix, there is exactly that tension between stress and escape that I mean.

Tracklisting

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01 (5:04) I’m New Here

02 (4:43) Home

03 (0:49) I’ve Been Me

04 (5:12) Running

05 (6:31) My Cloud

06 (0:24) Certain Things Interlude

07 (4:41) The Crutch

08 (6:18) Ur Soul And Mine

09 (0:51) Parents Interlude

10 (1:59) Piano Player

11 (8:21) NY Is Killing Me

12 (1:20) Jazz Interlude

13 (6:47) I’ll Take Care Of You

Playing Time : 53:00

Total Size : 85.0 MB

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