Word: remix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MAYBE THIS IS THE LIBERATION OF SUZANNE VEGA. Hearing DNA's hip-hop remix of her popular tune Tom's Diner has obviously encouraged the breathy folk singer to venture beyond the safety of her acoustic guitar. Her latest album, 99.9 F degrees, is a bold experiment in both verse and technology, with Vega's haunting images now pegged to electronic percussion and warped-sounding keyboards. Two of the more raucous songs, Rock in This Pocket and Fat Man and Dancing Girl, are even hot enough to hit the dance circuit. But unvarnished Vega fans need not fret: the album...
...unauthorized sampling ends in discord. Tom's Diner, an a cappella tune by Suzanne Vega, had been known only to fans who owned her 1987 album, Solitude Standing. Then late last year a couple of audacious remix artists who call themselves DNA sampled Vega's voice and grafted it onto a throbbing beat. Vega liked the new version so much that she asked her record company to release it. The resulting Top Five single was the surprise...