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On the Blade 2 Soundtrack:

"Immortal Entertainment founder and CEO Happy Walters, who in the past has achieved platinum success pairing hip-hop and rock acts in Judgement Night (1994) and electronica and hard rock artists in Spawn (1998), has once again created another unique sound."

FEATURING:
Mystikal and Moby
Mos Def and Massive Attack
Redman and Gorillaz
Cypress Hill and Roni Size
Ice Cube and Paul Oakenfold
Busta Rhymes, Silkk The Shocker and The Dub Pistols
Eve and Basement Jaxx
Bubba Sparxxx and The Crystal Method
Jadakiss, Fabolous and Danny Saber
Trina, Rah-Digga and Groove Armada

So..... CEO-level genre-fusion contrivances. Are soundtracks like these a good thing or merely executive power abuse?

― Honda, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the latter. the end result is usually poo. except the Faith no More vs Boo Ya Tribe track on the Judgement Night record. that shit is pumpin.

― chaki, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why not Buba Jaxx? They'd have saved a few XXXX.

― , Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But this isn't positing a new genre, it's only making more explicit the sort of electronicisms-meet-pop-and-hip-hop trend that's already years in progress. Trading the Gorillaz's undie Del for overground Redman isn't some massive revolutionary stroke of genius; neither is pairing Basement Jaxx with the sort of pop star they're already fine with remixing.

I do wonder, though, who'll wind up accommodating who on some of these. Mos Def + Massive Attack seems to have the most potential for seamless progress.

― Nitsuh, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NB the above is not to imply that I don't think many of these pairings are really interesting ideas. I doubt they'll result in much good, though, just because the aesthetic of the Blade franchise isn't exactly where I think these sorts of collaborations will fare best.

― Nitsuh, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, let us ask ourselves where the character fits in. Is Blade demonstrating electronism/hip-hop fusion style when he shudders, whispers "Oh, so exciting" and then cuts a bunch of vampires to shreds?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think this is pretty obvious, but Oakenfold should be working with a different 'ice'.

― Andy K, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah.. Nitsuh I agree, the idea is somewhat redundant and with the bootleg switch-&-swap explosion it'd be difficult to think how much of this would actually sound surprising. But admittedly, the star-studdedness clash-of-the-titans scale of the thing heightens my interest. It's interesting to me that some guy can cross a whole bunch of major label artists as if he were conducting a pea-pod gene experiment.

― Honda, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Andy - Vanilla?

― doug, Thursday, 7 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The mp3 of the Mos Def/Massive Attack track is available for download at www.mosdefinitely.com. It's decent, not as cool as I was expecting though.

― Jordan, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wait a minute, that list is real??

in THAT case, wow! eve is doing a basement jaxx song!!!! whatever executive made that match is fine with me. the rest --- christ could it be yawnier?

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer, if you want a 'sneak peek' (what's the aural equivalent of a peek?) of what the track might sound like, Eve features on the Jaxx remix of "For My People".

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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