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Britain's premier dance-pop band of the 1990s; the Shangri-Las with synthesizers; the only group who can make you fall in love, break your heart, and dance your butt off simultaneously, Saint Etienne marked six years of consistent brilliance with a two-CD collection that pegged out 17 songs for the attention of the remix community, and wound up with a reinvention that defies any kind of categorization. Employing both newly commissioned mixes and older cuts drawn from past singles and such, Casino Classics was previewed with a bonus disc offered with early copies of the Too Young to Die hits collection -- the same disc's reappearance here did spike some grumbling at the time, but the entire package remains a virtual history of U.K. remix tendencies throughout the first half of the 1990s.
Contributions from the Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin, David Holmes, Death in Vegas, Lionrock, and Underworld either predate or at least coincide with those acts' own mainstream breakthroughs, while Andrew Weatherall's "A Mix of Two Halves" assault on "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" spirals off Saint Etienne's first 12" single, released in summer 1990. Elsewhere, Monkey Mafia's revision of "Filthy," from a hard-to-find compilation, recaptures one of the group's earliest rarities, and a clutch of new songs -- "Angel," "Burnt out Car," "The Sea," and "Sometime in Winter" -- offer the unusual experience of hearing the remix before you've even encountered an original version. For anybody spellbound by the purity of Saint Etienne's "regular" releases, great swathes of this collection will certainly feel less than essential -- possibly unique among the club bands of its age, Saint Etienne works as ideally away from the dancefloor as it does on it, and hearing those exquisite arrangements and hooks hacked into electronic collops can be distracting -- maybe even infuriating. But, if you put your feet before your ears, Casino Classics has a perfection all of its own, and never a dull moment either.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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NEIL YOUNG, Composer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Andrew Weatherall, Producer, MixingEngineer - Ian Catt, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Steve Jones, Producer - The Chemical Brothers, Producer, MixingEngineer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Ian Catt, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Pete Heller, Producer, MixingEngineer - Mark Lusardi, Producer - Robert Wratten, Composer - Michael Hiscock, Composer - Ian Catt, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Jagz Kooner, Producer, MixingEngineer - Mark Lawrence, Producer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Ian Catt, Producer - Dean Thatcher, Producer, MixingEngineer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Jon Carter, MixingEngineer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Tatiana Mais, Composer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
NEIL YOUNG, Composer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Dave Darlington, Producer - Ian Catt, Producer - Kenny Dope Gonzalez, Producer, MixingEngineer - Little' Louie Vega, Producer, MixingEngineer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Pete Smith, Producer, MixingEngineer - Sarah Cracknell, Composer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Ian Catt, Composer, Producer - Gordon King, Producer, MixingEngineer - Baz Barrett, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Clive Scott, Composer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Aphex Twin, Producer, MixingEngineer - Ian Catt, Producer - Des Dyer, Composer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Underworld, MixingEngineer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Sarah Cracknell, Composer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Sure Is Pure, Producer, MixingEngineer - Guy Batson, Composer - Ian Catt, Producer - Johnny Male, Composer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
DISC 2
Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - David Holmes, Producer, MixingEngineer - Jagz Kooner, Producer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Ian Catt, Producer - Gary Burns, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Sarah Cracknell, Composer - Brian Higgins, Producer - Saint Etienne, MainArtist - Etienne Daho, Composer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Steve Rodway, Producer, MixingEngineer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Saint Etienne, MainArtist - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Mike Bolton, Producer, MixingEngineer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Broadcast, Producer, MixingEngineer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Ian Catt, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Simon Lee, Producer, MixingEngineer - Tore Johansson, Producer - Sarah Cracknell, Composer - Saint Etienne, MainArtist - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Ben Mitchell, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Sarah Cracknell, Composer - Saint Etienne, MainArtist - Sean O'Hagan, Producer - Paul Van Dyk, Producer, MixingEngineer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - To Rococo Rot, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Sarah Cracknell, Composer - Saint Etienne, MainArtist - Sean O'Hagan, Producer - MIKE TRUMAN, Producer, MixingEngineer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - To Rococo Rot, Producer - Lee Mullin, Producer, MixingEngineer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Nick Coler, Composer - Tim Powell, Composer - Sarah Cracknell, Composer - Brian Higgins, Composer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Tiesto, Producer, MixingEngineer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Mr Joshua, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Sarah Cracknell, Composer - Saint Etienne, Producer, MainArtist - Gerard Johnson, Producer - Keith Tenniswood, Producer, MixingEngineer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Andrew Weatherall, Producer, MixingEngineer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Xenomania, Producer - Saint Etienne, MainArtist - Mark Brown, Producer, MixingEngineer - Bob Stanley, Composer - Pete Wiggs, Composer - Richard Searle, Producer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Matt Prime, Composer - Saint Etienne, MainArtist - Pete Hofmann, Producer, MixingEngineer - Richard x, Composer, Producer, MixingEngineer - Hannah Robinson, Composer - James Manners, Composer
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
Album review
Britain's premier dance-pop band of the 1990s; the Shangri-Las with synthesizers; the only group who can make you fall in love, break your heart, and dance your butt off simultaneously, Saint Etienne marked six years of consistent brilliance with a two-CD collection that pegged out 17 songs for the attention of the remix community, and wound up with a reinvention that defies any kind of categorization. Employing both newly commissioned mixes and older cuts drawn from past singles and such, Casino Classics was previewed with a bonus disc offered with early copies of the Too Young to Die hits collection -- the same disc's reappearance here did spike some grumbling at the time, but the entire package remains a virtual history of U.K. remix tendencies throughout the first half of the 1990s.
Contributions from the Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin, David Holmes, Death in Vegas, Lionrock, and Underworld either predate or at least coincide with those acts' own mainstream breakthroughs, while Andrew Weatherall's "A Mix of Two Halves" assault on "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" spirals off Saint Etienne's first 12" single, released in summer 1990. Elsewhere, Monkey Mafia's revision of "Filthy," from a hard-to-find compilation, recaptures one of the group's earliest rarities, and a clutch of new songs -- "Angel," "Burnt out Car," "The Sea," and "Sometime in Winter" -- offer the unusual experience of hearing the remix before you've even encountered an original version. For anybody spellbound by the purity of Saint Etienne's "regular" releases, great swathes of this collection will certainly feel less than essential -- possibly unique among the club bands of its age, Saint Etienne works as ideally away from the dancefloor as it does on it, and hearing those exquisite arrangements and hooks hacked into electronic collops can be distracting -- maybe even infuriating. But, if you put your feet before your ears, Casino Classics has a perfection all of its own, and never a dull moment either.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 02:36:51
- Main artists: Saint Etienne
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Heavenly Recordings
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
2017 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS] 2012 Saint Etienne Ltd. under exclusive licence to [PIAS]
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