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CMU Approved
Approved: Saint Etienne – Casino Classics Mix
By Marc Samuels | Published on Monday 10 December 2012
Not content with releasing new album ‘Words And Music By Saint Etienne’ (a record whose criminal omission from the Mercury shortlist will hopefully be made up for somewhat by appearances in the end of year Best Of charts), 2012 also sees the last elements of Bob, Pete and Sarah’s back catalogue reissues programme finally surface. Saint Etienne, like Björk or the Pet Shop Boys, are a group with their ears close enough to the dancefloor to result in an enviable body of reworkings, and 1996’s ‘Casino Classics’ was a fine remix album, compiling radically different interpretations of the group’s best known songs by the remixers du jour (Andrew Weatherall, David Holmes, Chemical Brothers).
If the slightly rejigged two CD edition (or the limited run four CD version) are all a bit much for you, then you could do a lot worse than listen to this 23 minute mix (I feel compelled to call it a ‘megamix’, like they did in the 80s) by Tony Dunne, wherein you’ll hear tracks such as ‘Sylvie’ and ‘Hug My Soul’ relocated to various shiny new pastures by luminaries such as Sure As Pure, DJ Tiesto and the Trouser Enthusiasts.
‘Casino Classics’ is out now. The Tony Dunne mix is up on Soundcloud here:
Meanwhile, Saint Etienne begin a special pre-Christmas tour of the UK this week at Fibbers in York, taking in shows at venues in Edinburgh, Manchester and Brighton, before winding up at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Friday.
