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The industrial-dance remix glut continues with Re-Wind, a two-disc set of reworked material from Front Line Assembly's FLAvour of the Weak. FLA themselves are behind the boards on disc 1, providing somewhat harder-edged versions of the drum & bass-tinged original tracks (including an unreleased song, "Aftermath"). Disc 2 is left to the kindness of strangers, and it's by far a more interesting and varied listen. All squelchy keyboards and roiling, bouncy beats, Front 242's mix of "Comatose" wouldn't be out of place on a trance album. Collide add ethereal female vocals to "Predator," transforming
The industrial-dance remix glut continues with Re-Wind, a two-disc set of reworked material from Front Line Assembly's FLAvour of the Weak. FLA themselves are behind the boards on disc 1, providing somewhat harder-edged versions of the drum & bass-tinged original tracks (including an unreleased song, "Aftermath"). Disc 2 is left to the kindness of strangers, and it's by far a more interesting and varied listen. All squelchy keyboards and roiling, bouncy beats, Front 242's mix of "Comatose" wouldn't be out of place on a trance album. Collide add ethereal female vocals to "Predator," transforming the song into something mesmerizingly beautiful and closer in spirit to the FLA side project Delerium. Kalte Farben take the militaristic "Life = Leben" and turn it into an exercise in staccato funk. And Fini Tribe seemingly invent the genre of industrial trip-hop with their take on "Auto-Erotic." The artists on Re-Wind have discovered the secret to making a successful remix album: don't just retread--re-create. --Steve Landau
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Manufacturer: Unknown Label
Release date: 18 August 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0782388010320 UPC: 782388010320
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