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Mohsen Gamshad writes:

quoted 3 lines Can some one email me the name of the Saint Ettiene EP that

>Can some one email me the name of the Saint Ettiene EP that >has Black Dog remixes? Saw it a while ago mentioned here >and now I forget!

St Etienne asked Black Dog to remix some songs but they refused. I asked Ken why and he said it was because he thought St Et's music was "pure shit". - chris@minsk.docs.uu.se <http://www.update.uu.se/~chris/>

ebee/mail/postponed-mail/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII mRays <z943159@corn.cso.niu.edu> wrote: I like Tiger Bay a lot more than So Tough, as i find the latter falls apart in the end, although ive not heard the european version of it and i hear its much different than the us version which i have. Tiger Bay is just pleasing from front to end, as i speak of the european version of Tiger Bay and not the domestic. Speaking of which is there any other place where I can get "I Was Born on Christmas Day"? Was there an EP or something? Yes, there's an ep called xmas '93, two tracks on 7" and four on 12" and Cd. very good ep, if you like that sort of thing. I also should say that in the interviews i've read and by word of mouth from peole who have talked to them, Saint Etienne *hate* their american record company, warners, and hope to be dropped from them asap. The imports of both So Tough and Tiger Bay have been different from the US Domestic, most of the time it's different versions of songs which appear in worse versions on the US copies. Stick to the imports. BTW, I and a few other people have a little St Et mailing list, there are only five of us, and that only recently grew from three. :). recently we've been bantering around the idea of going public with it, and i think this is a good opportunity to..right now it's a very basic list, where you just send mail to all the people on it, rather than it being done for you, but hey, it's only five people. *anyway*, if you'd like to join us, please email me and i'll get you hooked up asap. :) mike to paraphrase pete wiggs of saint etiene, 'we're not post-anything. everything else is pre-saint etienne.' :::mikebee@freenet.fsu.edu:::

chris@minsk.docs.uu.se

quoted 2 lines St Etienne asked Black Dog to remix some songs but they refused. I asked

>St Etienne asked Black Dog to remix some songs but they refused. I asked >Ken why and he said it was because he thought St Et's music was "pure shit".

I have the "Like a Motorway" single with remixes by Dust Brothers (who are putting out some of the grooviest tracks these days), David Holmes and Autechre. This single is so good on the progressive house tip; then there's the totally whacked Autechre remix... I read Richard James saying something to the effect of, "The only songs I do remixes of are songs that are complete shit," implying that the job of a remixer is to turn a shit track into something decent -- in other words, remixing = a challenge. I kind of like that philosophy. I mean, if someone records a brilliant track, as is, why fuck with it? If a track beckons rework, then remix it. Sounds to me like Black Dog passed up a golden opportunity. Peace, 19.