Remixes of group Tatu (InterMedia - Russia)Time of publication: 23.03.2004 |
Universal Music Russia. The release of the album was in March.
The one and only album of lesbo-pop-duo Tatu made yet another step to win if not the brilliant, then great title. Since a just successful album cannot feed it's creators for a few years, but "200 po vstrechnoi" is making it, winning over the world along the way. Now "The Remixes", the main ones, of course, based on the first album's material. They replaced Tatu's second album, or the loud announcement of the end of the Russian sensation, which is leaving undefeated. Instead of this, an unpleasant crisis of group Tatu: Julia Volkova and Lena Katina, which prefer to communicate with their producer Ivan Shapovalov only through their lawyers; the absence of not only the second album, but also any promises what it will come out at all; the failure of Tatu's tele-project 'Tatu in Podnebesnaya". Documentary film-maker, Mansky, is making a good mine in a bad game, announcing, that the most important thing to him is to show real life and unforeseen problems, and not some album recording. As a result, the reality show became an industrial made film “Premia”: the relatives and friends of group Tatu slackly discussed Shapovalov’s sins; he on the other hand in sitting in Podnebesnaya and slackly talks about pseudo- philosophy with unidentified people. Real life, according to Mansky, is boring as hell.
Come to think of it, the time is gone irreversibly. The last few years Shapovalov wasted on creating the group’s scandals. There is no need to mention what was made up in the frames on this concept. The preparation of the second album did not fit into the sequence of sensations, and when the time came, there was no recording. Thanks to the label: at least it used “The remixes” to satisfy the still high market thirst for Tatu. Universal could well have just released a single, and include the last two songs from the album: "Prostye Dvizheniya" and "N Ver, Ne Boisya", songs that were born miraculously along the lines of the endless scandals. But the company involved the best DJs in the world, who rearranged the unforgettable tracks from "200 km/h In The Wrong Line", and that was enough for a whole album. The material presented here can characterise partly the desperate attempt to exploit the old hits. Mexican Pako Aiala went against the flow, adding some new rhythms and “provocative” moans to "All The Things She Said". The rest of the tracks had little in common with the original: play the remix by Steve Miller, and unless you were shown the cover of the album, not everyone will recognize Tatu in there. As a result – the birth of an album, which will satisfy not only the fans of electro-pop, but also Tatu fans who wanted to have the last two song of the group on a recording. Besides, judging from the situation surrounding Tatu, these songs have good chances to become THE LAST hits of the short Russian sensation. Anyway, they can release re-editions of the first albums many times.
Rita Skiter, InterMedia
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