Track Listing

1. Moving Cities - Faze Action (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix Extended Version)
2. Channel One Suite - The Cinematic Orchestra (Tom Tyler Remix)
3. The Fear Theme - Kenji Eno (The Cinematic Orchestra's Interpretation)
4. Guauanco - Les Gammas (The Cinematic Orchestra Extended Version)
5. Panoramica - Piero Umiliani (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix)
6. Vilderness - Nils Petter Molvaer (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix)
7. Re-Arrange - DJ Krust (The Cinematic Orchestra Remix)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10004 in Music
• Released on: 2000-11-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Customer Reviews

Sublime. A beautiful record.
Ode to remixes of Kenji Eno and DJ Krush, this Cinematic Orchestra 'album', if it can be described as such, has a more Asian and indeed on some pieces, European, than its 1999's Motion. This isn't so much a remix album as a collection of orchestral reconstructions from the ground up, and as such it is a triumph. Beautifully crafted, it has a flow that one would not expect from a collection of unrealated tracks. The Cinematic Orchestra are perhaps the premier act on Ninja Tune records, this album only serves to reinforce this contention. Fantastic.

Smoky stop-gap from Ninja Tune jazzheads
Remix albums can be distinctly hit and miss affairs,sometimes lacking cohesion and mood.This 7 track compilation of remixes and reinterpretations from the Cinematic Orchestra,being a space-filler before their second album proper,could easily have been a bit of a hotch-potch.However,the crucial difference between this and other albums of its like is that,save for one track,it's the Orchestra doing the remixing,not the usual random list of cred DJs and producers.The result is an album similar in mood to their first long player,'Motion';smoky,measured jazz pieces designed for reflection and relaxation,in contrast to some of the bouncier,beatier flavours on the Ninja imprint.Highlights include the beautiful,desolate piano on the remix of our old friend Nils Petter Molvaer(?)'s 'Vilderness' and the headnoddy funk-noir of Tom Tyler's 'Channel One Suite' remix.Best of the bunch,however,is the album's closer;a masterful rearrangement of DJ Krust's,er,'Rearrange',built around a truly spine tingling refrain plucked out on what sounds like a harp.Drums shuffle and bass resonates,and a haunting string breakdown that seems to last for aeons brings an eerie calm that is shattered by a squadron of dramatic,squealing horns,before that skeletal refrain seeps back in and the brass appears to be gasping its terminal breath.Not bad for 10 minutes work,and a track which,on its own,makes this a highly recommended purchase.

Music for after hours
The Cinematic Orchestra's remixes album took me by suprise, I was expecting a hip hop house jazzy combination as is to be expected from the Ninja Tune lable. Instead what I found was a contempory jazz collection of smooth polished compositions. The sound lies somewhere between Miles Davis 's sax to Jan Garberecks haunting themes with the Les Gammas mix similar to the sort of ethnic mix heard on a Thievery Corporation album.This is an interesting collection of late night down beats for lovers of jazzier flavours, a collection of sultry haunting themes that almost cross over in areas to Quincy Jones's classic film themes and in areas extracts from Bernsteins West Side Story.The Cinematic Orchestra's remixes would be best played after hours in a smokey living room sipping a beer coffees and brandy at the end of a late night out . If you are after up tempo club mixes avoid this one, this one is strictly for after hours unwinding.