Black Dog & Black Sifichi, The - Genetically Modified - Remix Album

scoundrel, Jan 13, 2006

The Black Dog (now just one man plus spoken word vocalist Black Sifichi) gets the remix treatment on GENETICALLY MODIFIED. While Jimmy Cautys version of "Invisible Things" still hems to The Black Dogs penchant for all things Egyptian, Technova takes "Interview" into deep electo-funk. A1 People take "Dogbite" into Middle Eastern noir, while C-PIJ goes all free-jazz on it. The Black Dogs own mixes of "Unsavoury Products" and "Voodoo" features the angular melodies that weve come to love. And after a long absence, CJ Bolland takes the joke of "Mental Health Hotline" and sets it to a driving beat, somehow making it funnier. Same goes for the Beloveds take of "Wishing Well." On a different note, Mescalito goes jazzy downtempo, while Laub adds their own vocals, aiming for some abstract ambience. But the bonus material at the end -- the fake advertisements -- are a testament to a man, while influential, refuses to take himself too seriously.

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