Many Faces of Joey Negro - Volume 2

Many Faces of Joey Negro - Volume 2

9 September, 2009 | 5.23AM

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Joey Negro, Z Records.

Many Faces Vol.2 showcases some of the best productions from Dave Lee aka Joey Negro predominantly covering the last 18 months of studio work but also some classic tracks from the catalogue. The finished double CD will feature full-length versions, many never available on unmixed CD before making this a great value purchase for both the digital enthusiast and vinyl hoarder alike.

Tracks exclusive to this album include the druggy underground ‘Sax My Bitch Up’, a taster of Akabu’s debut album to come in 2010. ‘Beyond The Dance’ sees new material from Joey Negro getting deep with this mid tempo chugger and David Penn remixes the classic track from ’98, ‘Can’t Get High Without U’, into a minimal tech influenced main room monster.

Other highlights from CD1 include Joey Negro’s revamped take on ‘Love Hangover’ this time with Diane Charlemagne (Goldie, Inner City Life / 52nd Street) on vocals, the recently massive old school house of ‘Ride the Rhythm’, the stomping philly disco from Doug Willis in the shape of ‘Nu Dimension’, a new edit of ‘Rough Times’, one of the standout tracks from last years Sunburst Band album ‘Moving With The Shakers’ and the big bassline driven ‘We’ll Keep Climbing’ under Dave’s Z Factor guise.

CD2 highlights the breadth of remixes that have been commissioned for release on Dave’s Z Records imprint as well as some of his own remixes for other labels. The highlights here have to be the undiscovered Marshall Jefferson ‘Raindance’ gem from ’88 which Joey faithfully brings into the digital age, Dennis Ferrer’s deep take on ‘Journey To The Sun’, the vinyl only dub mix from Henrik Schwarz, Jimpster at his very best taking on Akabu and Joey showing why he is still a very much in demand remixer with his rework of Roisin Murphy.

Pretty much every big dj in the world has supported tracks included on here including Pete Tong, Gilles Peterson, Carl Craig, Aaron Ross, Benji B, Bob Sinclar, Martin Solveig, Miguel Miggs, Tom Middleton, DJ Spinna, Danny Rampling, Ame, Kenny Dope, Dixon, Louie Vega, Annie Mac, Dave Pearce, Judge Jules, Jon Cutler, Dimitri From Paris, Danny Howells, Paul Woolford, Liquid People, Grant Nelson, Seamus Haji, Unabombers, Idjut Boys…

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