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...coolest new additions to the Marley catalog is the just-released CD Chant Down Babylon (Tuff Gong/Island). The album features duets with Marley and some of today's best hip-hop performers, including Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes. The hip-hoppers supply new vocals, while Marley's are drawn from alternate takes in decades-old recording sessions. "We got the idea, well, from Daddy basically," says Marley's son Stephen, who served as executive producer. "It was one of his dreams to get to the urban youth of America...
Marley's musical message is having no trouble finding new audiences. Legend, the Jamaican singer-songwriter's greatest-hits album, is, after 15 years and 10 million copies sold, still on the Billboard charts. Songs of Freedom, a four-CD boxed set of Marley's music, has been reissued after selling out its initial limited-edition run of 1 million copies. Chris Blackwell, head of the multimedia-entertainment company Palm Pictures and the man who signed Marley to Island Records, says Marley's lasting appeal is rooted in his approach to music. "His music was never overexposed at the time...
...warmth across decades on Turn Your Lights Down Low. "It didn't feel as if I was recording with someone who wasn't there," says Hill, who has two children by Rohan Marley, one of Bob's sons. "It felt very contemporary." Stephen says during the recording of the CD, he could feel his father's spirit, even smell his sweet paternal presence in the studio...
Beck, in interviews and in his music, is an explorer. On each CD he poses musical questions and sets out to answer them. Not definitively, but interestingly. His last CD, Mutations, was a meditation on blues and folk that grew in power with each listen. His new CD, Midnite Vultures (Geffen), is a series of witty experiments with rock, hip-hop and even soul. "Soul has a tradition of manliness to it, but it also has this emotional core that can be raw and open and vulnerable," says Beck. "In rock and alternative rock, if you're emotional...
...Game Boy technology was yesterday's news. "No magazine or TV show was interested. They thought Game Boy was finished," says Masakazu Kubo, executive producer of the publishing company Shogakukan Inc. "No toymakers were interested either." Spiffier graphics and more intricate games were going to be available on CD-ROM for use on home computers, leaving the tiny images on Game Boy in the dust. "When I finished Pokemon," says Tajiri, "I thought Nintendo would reject it. I was like a baseball player sliding into second base knowing he's going to be out. But somehow, I was safe...