Blog: State Magazine

Rock band remixes are a dubious musical black spot. A tendency for remix albums to become nothing more than final hour DJ fodder - something to get a worse-for-wear crowd turning to each other and going 'hey, that's Bloc Party ' and dancing a little bit harder – can be a major turn off. Couple that with an often-dubious standard of mixing and you could rebuild Gatecrasher several times over with badly made remix records. Fortunately, the cleverly titled Intimacy Remixed avoids the obvious pitfalls, managing to cling to both a high quality of musicianship [...]