Back to Mine

• Artist: Everything but the Girl
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• Release Date: May 29, 2001
• Type: Collection (various artists), Mix-album
• Genre: Rock

Review

Longtime music connoisseurs and taste-makers Everything but the Girl (aka Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn) were naturals to take over the stereo for a volume in the chillout mix series Back to Mine and, as could be expected, the mix is tasteful, wide-ranging, and above all, astonishingly well-paced. Beginning with a down-tempo hip-hop cut by French DJ Cam and moving into Slick Rick's excellent message track "All Alone (No One to Be With)," Back to Mine moves from jazzy rap and trip-hop into moody techno and deep house, with vocal tracks -- everyone from Beth Orton to Mary Margaret O'Hara to Donny Hathaway -- mixing very well with the instrumentals. Also appearing are two tracks by Detroit techno legends: a mix of "The Flow" by Juan Atkins' Model 500 and "A Wonderful Life" from Carl Craig's Landcruising LP of 1995. Back to Mine is an excellent addition to the scads of mix albums on the shelves, as conscious of perfect transitions and solid mixing as any out there. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Friends and Enemies	Laurent Daumail	DJ Cam	(5:37)
All Alone (No One to Be With)	Ricky Walters, Vance Wright	Slick Rick	(3:52)
The Bayou	Damon Baxter	Deadly Avenger	(3:53)
Stars All Seem to Weep	Beth Orton	Beth Orton	(5:16)
The Flow [Juan Atkins G-Funk Mix]	Juan Atkins	Model 500	(4:08)
Cascades of Colour [Wamdue Black Mix]	Chris Brann, Gaelle Adisson	The Ananda Project	(6:34)
Do It Now	Moonbeam Jones, Sunshine Jones	Dubtribe Sound System	(11:32)
A Wonderful Life	Carl Craig	Carl Craig	(6:15)
To Cry About	Mary Margaret O'Hara	Mary Margaret O'Hara	(3:45)
Silent Treatment	Scott Storch, Ahmir Khalib Thompson, Leonard Hubbard	The Roots	(6:35)
Funky for You [Spacehopper Mix]	D. Stanley, Ged Day	Deadbeats	(6:42)
Someday We'll All Be Free	Donny Hathaway, Ed Howard	Donny Hathaway	(4:15)

Credits

Slick Rick (Performer), Everything But the Girl (Main Performer), Donny Hathaway (Performer), Tracey Thorn (Liner Notes), Tracey Thorn (Compilation), Tracey Thorn (Selection), Juan Atkins (Remixing), Michael Brook (Producer), Pete Evans (Editing), Pete Evans (Editing Engineer), M. Jones (Producer), Arif Mardin (Producer), Yianni Papadopoulos (Engineer), Ben Watt (Producer), Ben Watt (Liner Notes), Ben Watt (Compilation), Ben Watt (Mixing), Ben Watt (Selection), Vance Wright (Producer), Carl Craig (Producer), Mary Margaret O'Hara (Producer), Beth Orton (Performer), Model 500 (Performer), DJ Cam (Performer), Dubtribe Sound System (Performer), Mike Glowik (Assistant Engineer), Mike Glowik (Assistant), J. Saul Kane (Executive Producer), Deadly Avenger (Performer), Chris Brann (Producer), Damon Baxter (Producer), The Ananda Project (Performer)