Saturday, May 10, 2008

White Zombie-Supersexy Swingin Sounds

Record Label: Geffen
Year: 1996
Track listing:
01. Electric Head Prt 2 (sexsational after dark mix)
02. More Human Than Human (meet Bambi in the King’s Harem mix)
03. Zombie (europe in the raw mix)
04. Grease Paint and Monkey Brains (sin centers of suburbia mix)
05. Blur The Technicolor (poker from stud to strip mix)
06. Super-Charger Heaven (adults only mix)
07. El Phantasmo and The Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama (wine, women and song mix)
08. Blood, Milk and Sky (Miss September mix)
09. Real Solution #9 (Mambo Mania mix)
10. Electric Head Pt 1 (satan in high heels mix)
11. I’m Your Boogie Man (sex on the rocks mix)


Remixes either can be really, really bad and completely destroy all the songs we love, or simply add nothing to the originals. But in this case, thanks to the mastery that is Rob Zombie, this album does neither.
Of course using mixers such as the
Dust Brothers, and Charlie Clouser doesn’t hurt either.

I’m not a big fan of dance style mixes, and loathed the Britney Spears remix album, and shuddered at Zombie’s American Made Music To Strip By, but this one actually rocks.
While the songs are still the songs we all love, each one of them has been mixed enough for them to be diverse and entertaining.


I think, for White Zombie fans this is a must, because the songs are different enough to feel brand new.
There is almost an eerie darkness to the remixes, one that suits Rob Zombie and his style.And for those who have never heard the brilliance of White Zombie, it’s also definitely worthy of introducing the band that brought us “
More Human Than A Human”.

For a writer, this is the type of dark and mysterious music that gets the creative juices flowing.

Favorite tracks:“Electric Head Pt 2”, “I’m Your Boogie Man” and “More Human Than Human”

I give it 3/5

Buy White Zombie's Supersexy Swingin Sounds here
Rob Zombie's official site
Rob Zombie on myspace

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