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MOBY - Wait For Me, Remixes!
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Written by Mark Reed
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Friday, 25 June 2010
After last years underperforming "Wait For Me", Moby - who appeared to fall out of the public consciousness sometime in 2005 - this remix set again usurps the new extinct single release by bundling together a cavalcade of remixes in a vague semblance of order, and pulling them all together for a fraction more than the cost of an import 12".
Listened to as an album, "Remixes" has no real flow or order. Songs start and end, and the individual mixes are certainly good in their own merits and worthy of examination as individual works, placed together next to each other in a two hour set, they begin to become less than the sum of the parts : akin to a musical narrative where the scenes (songs) next to each other don't have any relevance. Whilst the Mixhell mix of "Isolate", Yukseks take on "Mistake" and the Paul K version of "Wait For Me" are fine reinterpretations, some of the others are fairly dull and do not warrant or invite repeated listening (remixes by Maps and Carl Cox seem to lack durability in any major way to these ears) ; however, where the listener is rewarded is when the remix moves to a reinterpretation, not a bland, and instrumental cover version with some vague relation to the original. However, as the collection progresses, and the sequencing and remixes appear to grow more confident and have more relation to the original, the remix set begins to resemble what it is ; not an album in itself but a collection of superior remixes, sequenced to resemble (almost) a valid and interesting, though hardly essential, beats driven, intruiging reimaging of a grand original.
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