Open Your Box
Ono
This album frames such a unique phenomena. Not since Everything But The Girl post-“Missing” has an artist with this level of integrity embraced such a dramatic makeover of their sound. Starting with “Yang Yang” back in October of 2002, Ono publicly dove into the world of club music and Circuit parties with remixes by Peter Rauhofer and Orange Factory. A string of singles followed employing the skills of John Creamer & Stephane K, Pet Shop Boys, Danny Tenaglia, Felix Da Housecat, Rui Da Silva, Basement Jaxx, Murk, Dave Aud�, Ralphi Rosario, Superchumbo, and The Passengerz, among others. The product is the most after-hours appropriate material ever � Yoko blaring her crazy-ass sentiments, sounds, and imagery, mostly without musical conventions, over productions by the best of the best.
All that experimentation has been collected onto this single disc containing thirteen tracks, mostly edited but not brutalized, of the best of the lot, including the formerly vinyl-only tracks “Kiss Kiss Kiss” (Superchumbo Remix), “Hell In Paradise” (Peter Rauhofer Remix), and the Orange Factory mix of the title track. Other highlights include the Basement Jaxx mix of pro-same-sex relationship anthem “Everyman… Everywoman…,” the Pet Shop Boys’ eerie remake of “Walking On Thin Ice,” and Bimbo Jones’s smooth interpretation of the jittery love song “You’re The One.”
