For The Harcore Fan Only (Kicking A Dead Pig - Mogwai)

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Product:	Kicking A Dead Pig - Mogwai
Date:	13/11/01 (218 review reads)
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Mogwai are semi-well known or creating some of the most beautiful music around, aswell as for having songs that descend into eardum-threatening noise that sounds like like the end of the world, often at the same time. But did you know you can dance to them? Ok so its been done before, the lets-make-indie-danceable remix album, but this is far from being a case of chuck a dance beat on it and hope it sells, just as much as mogwai are far from 'average' indie. So here we have the fantastic Klute giving summer a 'wierd winter' remix, creating a chilling atmosphere to an original that was far from happy anyway. We get dj q giving 'r u still into it' a chillout/comedown overhall, stripping the original of its vocals. We also get the less-danceable-than-the-original type of remixers, such as surgeon, who mutates 'mogwai fear satan' into a snowball of noise, which would be fine were it not for mogwais own remix of the same song later on, which does pretty much the same without sounding lie a motorbike starting up. We have mogwai's friends and sometime touring partners arab strap, doing a disco megamix of the first few singles, titled 'gwai on 45. And of course for the sonic sadists amoungst the listeners there is alec ampires remix of like herod, which nicks the bassline, changes the timing, and randomly attacks the speakers with scattershot drum 'n bass. Nice. The only problem this album suffers from is that the original songs are too strong for the remixers to improve on them, hence the average mogwai fan will be left cold. Most of the remixes are about as acessable as mogwai themselves, hence preventing new fans joining in on this one, and the remixes are mostly undancable, hence few djs will get any joy out of this one. This is not to say that this is a bad album, just one that will probobly only appeal to the hardcore mogwai fan, which is a real shame, because mogwai are the kind of group that everyone shoud hear, but with t
his album, that ain't gonna happen. For the hardcore only.

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