TurnOff, Mar 31, 2008
With Detroit being in an economic depression it's understandable for UR and Submerge to allow their most successful offering, Knights of the Jaguar, to be remade on a different label.
But this is about the most distasteful remake possibly. The entire track has been stripped of its individuality, essence, and soul, and remade with a bare minimum of class and style. The production is low-level, and the arrangement just falls flat.
Personally I would have rather seen another Knight of the Jaguar Remix package on UR or Submerge. The way this is released, as Leger - Jaguar. It's as if he's taking credit for writing and producing the original track, the melodies, harmonies, when it fact this is nothing more than a cover, a terrible one at that. People new to the scene, and unfamiliar with the original UR Jaguar will probably think Sebastian Leger is a musical genius because of this song, when in actually he had almost zero musical input into this track.
It's hard to criticize UR because they are so consistently good, are usually set the bar for electronic music, but this business tactic of selling out one of their strongest and greatest tracks hopefully will be avoided in the future.
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