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A great remix project encapsulating the post-Def Jam-era for

Hype Currie | Detroit, Michigan United States | 08/16/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

""Bring that Beat Back" is a really good remix project, overseen by Chuck D and compiled by Impossebulls' founding member Dave `C-Doc' Snyder. Except for a "Public Enemy #1", all of the original songs remixed here are cherrypicked from 1999 to the present, covering the period since Public Enemy left Def Jam and went independent for all future LP releases. The versatile C-Doc is behind the boards on several of the remixes here, including the title track, "Gotta Give the Peeps", "Put it Up", and "Watch the Door". Longtime PE associate DJ Johnny Juice Rosado remixes the Moby collaboration "MKLVFKWR"; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony producer Mauly T gives a west-coast funk feel to "Superman's Black in the Building", with wailing synthesizers and Roger Troutman-style voice-box backup vocals. Other remixes make diversions over jazz-like sonic terrain, as well as the band's traditional noisy-uptempo rhythm tracks. This is only one of a planned series of archival-based Public Enemy releases (Greatest Hits is in stores now), with even more to come, like "Beats & Places" and "World Tour Sessions"."