Joey Negro-Remixed With Love by Joey Negro Vol.2: Album Review

Way back in the late 70s and early 80s, my summer days were spent hanging out at the public pool in the small town I lived in and on those days you’d hear all kinds of music filling the air coming from the cool kids that had their “boom boxes” blaring. It was a glorious time. I know most of you reading will also be brought back to some of your most favorite times when the music represented on this 2 Gatefold Double Vinyl LP/Double CD was everywhere on the FM airways.

‘Remixed With Love by Joey Negro Vol. 2’ picks up where the first installment of the series left off. Dave Lee, known as Joey Negro, has painstakingly and masterfully worked all kinds of magic remixing the original multi-track tapes of 20 hand picked classic disco, soul, funk and pop songs that formed his musical taste and shaped his future as a DJ decades ago. These artists include: The O’Jays; Patti LaBelle; The Trammps; George Benson; Grace Jones; Robert Palmer; Nicolette Larson; Cheryl Lynn; Thelma Houston; Jean Carn; Christopher Cross and Norman Connors are a few of the big names that make up the double album.

In my opinion, all 20 tracks reworked with percussion, vibes, and other delightful sounds and instruments and breaking down each track would turn this review in to a short novel, so you’ll just have to believe me when I say, get this release today. You won’t be sorry and most of you will place it on replay.

However, I will enlighten you with my personal favorites. Thelma Houston’s ‘I’m Here Again’, Christopher Cross’ ‘Ride Like The Wind’, a super slick re-do of Robert Palmer’s ‘Every Kind of People’ and I love the transformation of taking the country/pop cross over hit ‘Lotta Love’ from Nicolette Larson and adding strings and percussion to the keyboard and guitar melody resulting in an extended intro leading up to the songstress belting out the vocals…my personal favorite.

True music fans that love and appreciate great music, no matter the genre, will have many of the original tracks represented on ‘Remixed With Love Vol.2’ already in their collections. And perhaps some will also have a few bootleg remixes, re-edits and extended plays from some of the artists. But the thing is, this 20 song collection offering, with Joey Negro’s knack to present these famous classic disco cuts with a fresh approach fused with lots or strings and various percussion instruments, is what will be appealing to all listeners. My feel good album of the year to date. Buy it here.

—Joseph Wensell


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