AnotherLateNight (2001)

Just come home from the ultimate night out? Too tired to move but too jacked-up to sleep? Fortunately, the market is awash with CD compilations made just for you. With major labels Ultra Record and Kinetic battling it out for after-hours supremacy with their Back to Mine and Another Late Night series, more and more big-name artists are being asked to put their names and record collections onto the CDs. Rae & Christian are a premier U.K. down-tempo act, which makes them an obvious choice to assemble this type of mix. The ... Read More

Just come home from the ultimate night out? Too tired to move but too jacked-up to sleep? Fortunately, the market is awash with CD compilations made just for you. With major labels Ultra Record and Kinetic battling it out for after-hours supremacy with their Back to Mine and Another Late Night series, more and more big-name artists are being asked to put their names and record collections onto the CDs. Rae & Christian are a premier U.K. down-tempo act, which makes them an obvious choice to assemble this type of mix. The first half of the mix is an unnotable collection of predictable trip-hop, hip-hop, and breaks records. These half-dozen tracks could easily be replaced with a different six and no one would notice. But just when you want to pop the disc out of the player, Rae & Christian drop the serious post-disco funk of Bushy vs. Sonic Boo's "I Pink I'm Going Squezy." In that 90 seconds, the down-tempo mush switches into dazzling, '70s-sounding funk and soul performed by modern artists Pablo and Faze Action. R&C then really take it back with their own cover of George Clinton's "Flashlight," and close the mix with original '70s recordings by Rick James and Jose Feliciano doing a fantastic flamenco guitar version of "California Dreamin." This is a disc with a serious identity crisis: half boring as molasses and half pumped like powdered sugar. If only Rae & Christian had just gone ahead and made a dance mix. But that's just not what the big labels are interested in. ~ Joshua Glazer, Rovi Read Less