Panthalassa: The Remixes

Artist: Miles Davis Label: Sony Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: LP Record Number Of Discs: 2 UPC: 074646989715 EAN: 0074646989715 ASIN: B00000JPPP Release Date: 1999-05-25

Tracks:

1. Shhh [SEA4 Miles Remix]
2. Rated X
3. In a Silent Way
4. On the Corner [Subterranean Channel Mix]
5. Rated X

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Customer Reviews:

smooth dark trance.......2002-10-16

for jazz fans who also like acid jazz AND good DJ remixes, this album is fantastic. the essence of miles is not cut up and chopped - it's not a techno mix - Miles is full and present on the album - but the additional underlayers of sound and the careful looping of tracks create a wonderful web of sound that i think even Miles would approve of.

it's perfect for long drives, traffic jams, and for just laying back on the couch with the lights low and a bottle of red wine, decompressing.

miles lives!.......2002-04-09

may I puke now?.......2001-10-31

may I puke now?.......2001-10-31

Davis purists--stay home/drums'n'bass fans--Miles rules!.......2000-07-09

Certainly, if a listener isn't familiar with acid jazz, drums'n'bass and similiar contemporary underground styles, these remixes are going to sound generic. However, to those who know why Roni Size Reprazent's album was considered the class of the d'n'b movement: the remixers chosen here are largely on that stellar level (I actually prefer this album to that one!). Often remixing the music of the greats is a travesty (e.g., the abominable, hackneyed late-70's Sly Stone disco remix LP). However, the PANTHALASSA remixers have earned accolades for their originality. Why not allow producers of this caliber the opportunity to investigate the 1969-75 electric-Miles legacy, which to begin with was recorded in a piecemeal manner to be later mixed 'n' matched for release (whether it be by Macero, Laswell, or the PANTHALASSA "insurgents")?

I'm a Miles Davis fan too...and while no one knows for sure, I think that if he were alive today and in a progressive frame of mind, he would quite likely be collaborating with remix wizards such as those enlisted for this album, and coming up with music that is not far removed from what is actually heard here. I vaguely recall an interview with Miles shortly before he died, in which he stated something to the effect that he had thoughts of taking pieces of older recordings and incorporating them into new music. That sounds a lot like what happens on this album.

Miles Davis fans have every right not to like this album. However--at the very least--this project embodies from a Y2K perspective the restless, curious spirit that Davis exhibited throughout his career. I'm anxiously waiting for a volume two! (by the way, the DJ Krush remix of BLACK SATIN is only available on the vinyl and Japanese versions of this album)

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