“The Sound Of Young America” is young once again. Motown Remixed (Motown/UMe), set for release on May 24, 2005, re-grooves 15 of the greatest songs of Motown for a new generation. On this album, which features more than a dozen of the world’s top producers/remixers, you’ll hear Motown classics like you’ve never heard them before.
‘The Randy Watson Experience’: AKA Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson (The Roots, Common, Nikka Costa, Joss Stone) and James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Roots, Anthony Hamilton), for Gladys Knight & The Pips’ “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”
DJ Green Lantern (Eminem, Nas, Tupac, and has his own new album coming soon), for Rick James’ “Mary Jane”
Salaam Remi (Ludacris, Amy Winehouse, Fugees, Nas, Jamiroquai), for the Jackson 5’s “ABC”
DJ Z-Trip (Soup of Jurassic 5, Chuck D and has his own new album “Shifting Gears”), for the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back”
DJ Jazzy Jeff (Will Smith, Jill Scott, Kenny Lattimore, KRS-1), for The Temptations’ “Papa Was A Rolling Stone”
DJ Spinna (Guru, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige), for Eddie Kendricks’ “Keep On Truckin’”
Hank Shocklee (Shocklee Entertainment, Public Enemy, Mary J. Blige, Ice Cube, Peter Gabriel), for the Undisputed Truth’s “Smiling Faces Sometimes”
Easy Mo Bee (Alicia Keys, Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis), for The Temptations’ “Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)”
Mocean Worker AKA Adam Dorn (U2, Mystikal, Moby, Charles Wright, Bill Frisell, Nina Simone), for Rare Earth’s “I Just Want To Celebrate”
Hotsnax AKA Full Phatt (Ashanti, Nelly, Outkast, Christina Milian, Bob Marley), for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles’ “The Tears Of A Clown”
King Britt (SYLK130, Digable Planets, Miles Davis, Grover Washington, Jr.), for Edwin Starr’s “War”
DJ Smash (Roy Ayers, Chico Hamilton, Cassandra Wilson), for Stevie Wonder’s “Signed Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours”
Paul Simpson (Serious Intention, Spinners, Jacksons) and Miles Dalto, for Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”
Rafe Gomez and David Baron as ‘The Groove Boutique’ (the nationally- syndicated cool jazz mix show of the same name), for Smokey Robinson’s “Quiet Storm”
Tranzition (everyANYTHING), for Diana Ross & The Supremes’ “My World Is Empty Without You”
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