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BUSH
Deconstructed
Interscope· Remixes of Bush material by heavyweight producers like Goldie, Tricky, Derek DeLarge, and Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto) among others.
· Apparently the Nirvana bandwagon ain't moving fast enough anymore so it's time to jump on the "electronica" one.
When Dadaist Marcel Duchamp displayed a urinal in New York as art in 1917, he made the first real deconstructionist statement: What is art? Was the pisser a piece? Is it "art" just because the "artist" says so?
Eighty years later and we're presented with another urinal. Is it art? Is it good?
Personally, I find it more like a fixture that's been painted by different artists. It doesn't matter how much they've done to it, it still smells suspiciously like piss. Sure, sometimes you barely get a whiff of it, like in Goldie's mix of "Swallowed" where only the title word is maintained from the original, or "Insect Kin" in which breakbeat originator Jack Dangers blurs the line between big beat and drum 'n' bass. But once you smell Gavin Rossdale's mix of his own "Mouth," or Tricky's lame version of Joy Division's "In a Lonely Place," you'll definitely be looking for some air freshener.
Unless you're a big fan of Bush. Then you probably enjoy hanging around crap.
4/5 for Goldie, Jack Dangers, Mekon, and Dub Pistols
1/5 for the rest
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