The Jacksons – Take Me Back (Regrooved by Parker)

The Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine (Regrooved by DJ Kid Stretch)

The Jackson 5 – I Want You Back (Regrooved by Basement Freaks)

Overview

I recently lamented that I’m not a big fan of remixes of great funk and soul artists. I’m usually like “if it’s funky, don’t mess with the funk!”

I posted to Earfuzz a few weeks back pointers to Good Groove Records – http://www.myspace.com/goodgrooverecords – giving the label and a few producers kudos for their ‘James Brown Regrooved’ selections. Proper remixes of Soul Brother #1 – check it again here – http://www.earfuzz.com/2009/07/james-brown-remixed-well.html

Well thanks to funk brother Tal M. Klein – check his fan page here – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tal-M-Klein/20244850729 – I was made aware that Good Grooves Records has another collection of ‘regrooves’ e.g. remixes of Michael Jackson. (Side note – Tal M. Klein’s ‘Houston Brownwater Moccasins’ is one to ear peep!).

A few of the regrooves focus in on the Jackson 5 catalog as well.

About the selections above …

Producer Parker or aka DJ Parker – http://www.myspace.com/djparker – appeared in the James Brown ‘Regroove’ compilation with a crazy “dubstep” remix of JB’s ‘It’s a Man Man’s World’ – it really blew my mind – I was like, really, dubstep + JB, on a ballad?? Ok.

Parker comes back here for a ‘regroove’ of Michael Jackson’s ‘Take Me Back’ that jams-jams-jams with all kinds of old school hip hop breakbeats in the back of this mid tempo number from MJ ; ironically I had never even heard the original ‘Take Me Back’ before, I’m just not that well versed in the Jacksons, really / honestly

Well that’s a good question asked after I tweeted this selection. That’s because I think the Jackson 5 ‘Dancing Machine’ remix is the STAR OF COMP – this one, wins, wins, wins. Can anyone help me in the comments below by identifying the genre it got remixed into – it’s like a beautiful summer island remix of ‘Dancing Machine’. A little Balearic maybe?

I had never heard of DJ Kid Stretch before this particular remix but he is from Greece, and I’m over at his MySpace page right now jamming away to a tune he’s got there called ‘Get Away’ – http://www.myspace.com/kidstretch

I also posted a real burner – the regroove of Jackson 5’s ‘I Want You Back’. This song has been remixed quite a bit so I was expecting to be bored. It’s nothing outlandishly innovative yet I’m glad this one from the Basement Freaks brings me back to like 1988 or 1989 with it’s boogie-club-hop groove.

Get the whole Good Grooves compilation of Michael Jackson ‘Regrooved’ right here

http://drunkfunk.net/goodgroove/MJ_Regrooved.zip