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| 1 |
Control (I'm Here) (Dubfire's Jamrock Remix)
Programmed By, Remix, Engineer – Matt Nordstrom Remix – Dubfire |
8:45 | ||
| 2 |
Getting Closer (Black Strobe EBM Homage)
Remix – Black Strobe Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Arnaud Rebotini |
6:27 | ||
| 3 |
Join In The Chant (Xpress 2 Remix)
Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – X-Press 2 |
9:11 | ||
| 4 |
Lightning Man (Motor Remix)
Remix – MOTOR (2) Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Bryan Black, Mr Nô* |
6:47 | ||
| 5 |
Shame (Derrick May Remix)
Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Derrick May |
5:40 | ||
| 6 |
Control (I'm Here) (The Hacker Remix 2006)
Remix – Hacker, The Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Michel Amato |
6:27 | ||
| 7 |
I Thought (Robag's Schikkuli Vocal Rework)
Engineer – Efren Herrera, Flood Mixed By – Mark Saunders Remix – Robag Wruhme Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Gabor Schablitzki |
6:44 | ||
| 8 |
Murderous (Phil Kieran Remix)
Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Phil Kieran |
8:01 | ||
| 9 |
Getting Closer (Black Strobe Moderne Remix)
Remix – Black Strobe Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Arnaud Rebotini, Ivan Smagghe |
7:41 | ||
| 10 |
Let Your Body Learn (Terence Fixmer Remix 2006)
Mixed By – Daniel Miller, Gareth Jones Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Terence Fixmer |
4:16 | ||
| 11 |
Join In The Chant (Knarz Ist Machine) (Thomas P. Heckmann Remix)
Remix, Producer [Additional Production] – Thomas P. Heckmann |
5:33 |
Companies etc
- Mastered At – The Soundmasters
- Manufactured By – Mediamotion
Credits
- Mixed By – Flood (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 6, 9), Nitzer Ebb (tracks: 1, 6), Phil Harding (tracks: 3, 8, 11)
- Producer – Flood (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 7, 9), Nitzer Ebb (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 6, 9), Phil Harding (tracks: 3, 8, 10, 11)
- Written-By – Harris*, McCarthy*
Notes
NITZEREBBPRODUKT2006
Published by Mute Song
This compilation ℗&© 2006 Mute Records Limited
Other Versions (Showing 4 of 4) View All
| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Body Rework (CDr, Promo, Album) | NovaMute | PNOMU166CD | UK | 2006 | ||
| Body Rework Remixes (2xLP) | NovaMute | NoMu 166 LP | UK | 2006 | ||
| Body Rework Remixes Vinyl LP (CDr, Promo) | NovaMute | none | UK | 2006 | ||
| Body Rework (CDr, Comp, Ref) | Not On Label | none | UK | 2006 |
Recommendations
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Nitzer Ebb - Body Of Work (2xCD, Comp, RM)
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Depeche Mode - Remixes 81···04 (3xCD, Comp, Ltd)
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Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age (CD, Album)
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00:00:02:42* - Angels Versus Animals (CD, EP)
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242* - Live Code (CD, Album)
[r742945]
The track choices are unimaginatively weighted towards the Ebb's earlier work. Four tracks are remixed from 'That total age' (1987), three from 'Belief' (1989), three from 'Showtime' (1990), none(!) from the commercial breakthrough 'Ebbhead' (1991), and only one from 'Big hit' (1995). It would have been more interesting if some album tracks and B-sides had been remixed as well as the obvious singles.
'Control (I'm here)' appears twice on this album and another three times on the 12" singles that preceded and followed it (the remixes by LFO and Superchumbo are missing). Dubfire's mix has nice key changes but no urgency, and The Hacker's version falls between the original and the 1988 hardcore mix, but is inferior to either. Black Strobe wreck 'Getting closer' twice – the only positive thing to be said for these two versions is that they aren't quite as bad as BS's appalling treatment of Depeche Mode's 'Something to do'. 'Join in the chant' is stretched to nine agonising handbag minutes by Xpress 2: just add looped female mumbling and Fatboy Slim phasing for a result that has nothing to do with Nitzer Ebb. Thomas Heckmann remixes the same track, as 'Knarz ist machine' (a bad pun on 'Nazi's machine'?), pushing McCarthy's yelling through a deadpan vocoder. There are flat, airless mixes by Terence Fixmer and the overrated Phil Kieran. Motor fair better with 'Lightning man', even if the vital horns are removed. Gabor Schlabitzki makes an unrecognisable thudscape from 'I thought' - only a brief snatch of vocal and some subliminal noises identify the track.
By far the best mix here is the one that dates from 1989: Derrick May's hitherto unreleased version of 'Shame'. (Its proper title is 'Mayday mix'.) He decorates the basic beat with all manner of twitches, backward hihats and pauses. Stereo is used to maximum effect, with percussion frantically darting right and left, and McCarthy's voice is dragged through a variety of watery effects. All of which takes you away from 'Body rework' and back to the excellent remixes created for Nitzer Ebb during the 1986-95 period. Stick with those.