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As with nearly everything involving jazz and young people, the three volumes of the Verve Remixed series — in which hip international beatmakers are invited to have their way with material from the jazz giant’s vault — invite suspicion: is this a respectful continuation of the old-timers’ creative mojo or a cynical catalogue repackaging for Urban Outfitters shoppers? But when there are grooves as intermittently appealing as the ones compiled here, who cares? This four-CD box set features the three original Remixed discs plus another of previously unreleased cuts and music videos. The chances of your listening to the box all the way through increase dramatically if you work at Urban Outfitters, of course; only people who unlock fitting-room doors 300 times a day need this much exotic percussion in their lives. But spin the CDs at random and pleasant surprises keep presenting themselves: Rae & Christian funking up Dinah Washington with a cowbell; Masters at Work extending Nina Simone’s "See-Line Woman" into 10 minutes of space-flute chaos; Brazilian Girls finding the party girl inside Blossom Dearie. Of the new stuff, savor the poppin’ remix of Walter Wanderley’s "Popcorn" by M.I.A.’s DJ Diplo. It’s salty, trashy fun — no more, no less.
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