As part of Pop Cesspool's continuing shakeup, I'll now be posting record reviews here, with no middleman. So fly with me for my first installment of Wednesday's Review:
Paul Oakenfold "Greatest Hits & Remixes" (Perfecto/Ultra)
End-to-end, these 20 tracks amount to a brilliant simulacrum: That is, Oakenfold doesn't tell stories or edit them or embellish them; no, he pumps them full of goo, to the point where their "reality" is somewhere between "silicone" and "recreational Viagra use." Cue the strobes. Of course, any individual retread is a hoot for one reason or another: The Radiohead song is downright hilarious (Kid Haaaayyy!), while the Timberlake/T.I. thing is mildly subversive, if you imagine that perhaps Oaky did it without Justin's approval. (Timbaland and T.I., meanwhile, were probably like, "you can't hurt us, nerdboy.") But the real fun comes during a complete 1.3-hour immersion in the total package: This here DJ might be a sure-thing remixer and a big-room pioneer, but he's also a colossal corndog and a sucker for alleged awesomeness. Cue the champagne rockets. Michael Bay can't touch this.
u can haz oakenfold cd!
Posted by: eurok | February 27, 2008 at 22:07
I IZ COVERED IN GOO
Posted by: Pop Cesspool | February 28, 2008 at 10:41