Dusting off musical gems through the art of the remix

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Dusting off musical gems through the art of the remix
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Dusting off musical gems through the art of the remix: Gallo retraces its steps for new gold in its legacy project series Gallo Remixed

Close to two decades ago, the Blue Note label granted musician and producer Madlib access to its legendary vault of jazz and funk recordings, and gave the prolific producer free rein to do with the music as he pleased. What resulted was an inventive 16-track album titledVerve Records, another iconic American music label, had done the same a year before, albeit with a varying cast of producers interpreting works by artists ranging from Willie Bobo to Sarah Vaughn.

“Part of the approach with this project was looking at how the majors had done it. We looked at how Blue Note did the projects with Guru’s; how they did the projects with Robert Glasper, and Madlib. I think that’s the future with Gallo; there’s a whole 200 000 titles in the vault.

“When we played that song – it came up with an A&R session with the Gallo label team, and Black Coffee – the response was really good, because of how unexpectedly mellow she delivers it. And that was really what was appealing about it,” says Bradley. Adds Mpho: “I think the song is a story, and I wanted to be able to match the emotion in that story. We wanted to capture the melancholy of the song in our delivery. In terms of music, the original is quite upbeat, and we decided to bring it into this emo, melancholic, soulful world, so [that] the listener hears and connects with the lyrics more.”

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