----- Original Message ----- From: "ian tyson" <i_tyson@hotmail.com>
"First new album in 17 years", people who say that have absolutely no clue...
What do you mean? The Mix was a remix compilation, not "a new album" as such. You say the article is wrong about that?
In my humble opinion The Mix was certainly a "new album". It is more than
a
simple remix compilation. A remix album is usually a producers reworking of master recordings. I think of The Mix as a concept album. An interpretation of KW by KW themselves (KW through the looking glass!). The album may use previous compositions, but it is digital rerecordings creating new sounds by the artists themselves. I think that concept has been lost on a lot of people.
I think you are over-interpretating too much. The Mix has no new compositions on it, and that is what matter to the simplified thinking of a music journalist. "A lot of people" is not who we talk about here, but the general press, who need to simplify matters for the general audience. Thus, The Mix does not count as a "new album", no matter how much artistic merit you think went into it. glenn