Album of the Week: Jamie XX + Gil Scott-Heron: We’re New Here: "Remix albums, the ones featuring a slew of different producers reworking a given artist, are a dime a dozen. Then there's another kind, pairing a single remixer with a single album. No Protection, in which Mad Professor dubs the hell out of Massive Attack's Protection, is surely one of the touchstones of the genre. I'm not sure that Jamie XX and Gil Scott-Heron's We're New Year reaches quite those heights, but it's a project in a similar spirit.
Gil Scott-Heron is a poet and black activist whose work in the '70s helped pave the way for hip-hop; Jamie XX is the 20-something producer most famous for his participation in The XX, but with a growing reputation as a top-notch producer of left-field bass music. On We're New Here, Jamie XX pulls threads from Scott-Heron's 2010 album I'm New Here and weaves them into a radically new form.
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