DJ Cam - Meera Remix Collection

DJ Cam's sublime _Meera_ gets the remix treatment from a number of international luminaries. 4 Hero (under their Tek 9 guise) deliver a smoky, head-nodding number that delves deep and never surfaces. On the other hand, Extra Lucid, DJ Cam's compatriot, offers two hip-hop versions that start out dense and paranoid but slowly lose layers to reveal a haunting purity of sound, either with or without vocals (though the vocals are indubitably part of what made the original so stunning). Japan's Nobukazu Takemura abstracts the vocals into a stutter and echo and goes for a simpler beats-and-piano approach (albeit with funky drum breaks midway through) for his first remix, and goes with thicker percussion on his second. Zend Avesta speeds things up to near drum 'n' bass tempo, while keeping things dark with heavy bass hits. But when the original comes back on, it's time to put away file away the others as distractions and lose yourself in its majesty.