Nina Remixed

I have been working my way thorugh the various volumes of the Verve Remixed albums.  The first of these albums was released in 2002, with follow ups in 2003, 2005 and this year.  Each of these albums essentially works the same way.  A bunch of old Verve material is provided to various DJ’s, remix masters, and electronic artists to do their best (or worst) with.  Overall these albums are spotty, some tracks work great, others are simply horrid.  However, I noticed two things while listening to these.  The first is a surpringly high proportion of tracks based around Nina Simone, and the second is that the track that works best is one of these Nina tunes (Mike Mangini’s mix of “Gimme Some”), and in fact most of the Simone tracks work.  So, to that end, I have collected those tracks here.  I have also included an extra Nina Simone remix, the version of “Ain’t got no, I got life” from the Very Best of Nina Simone.