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A little over a month after its release, but better late than never, it is time to highlight the new album by Mark Ronson, Record Collection. As usual, the English managed to gather a crowd of artists to interpret his compositions, always dancing and mingling with talent often musical worlds sometimes radically opposed.

Small retrospective to start. Mark Ronson, who is it? First, a producer of genius. His biggest hit remains excellent album Back to Black Amy Winehouse, he revealed just her and her talent. It is therefore a major contributor to the soul back to the front of the music scene since the mid-2000s, and we thank him.
But Marco is also a fully fledged artist. Record Collection is already the third album by the English after Here Comes The Fuzz in 2003 and version in 2007. Finally, like all good producers, Mr Ronson knows to surround himself. Indeed, it is not given to everyone to be able to afford the services of Jack White, Mos Def and Sean Paul on his first album, and Amy Winehouse Paul Smith, Kasabian and Santogold on a second album. Speaking of environment, include the portion that Mick Jones of Foreigners is her stepfather, something that helps to forge a musical background of quality early childhood, shall we say.

For this third album, less prestigious names ( Boy George back in the 1980s at most), but still the ability to mix sounds brilliant. The title comes out as the lot of its originality and the universe completely opposite of his interpreters, is probably Somebody To Love Me , with Boy George, Andrew Wyatt (Miike Snow) and Rose Elinor Dougall (Which was part of the first training pipettes). Bang Bang Bang , Glass Mountain Trust and Hey Boy, meanwhile, are the values in the album. But Record Collection in the same vein as Plastic Beach Gorillaz released earlier this year, especially because the spotlight on hip hop, which is one of the great loves Mark Ronson, evidenced by the many rappers present on this album: Spank Rock, Pill, Q-Tip, Ghostface Killah, Wiley, or the soul men Theophilius D'Angelo and London.

Abandoning the strings and winds so sixties version of to address keyboards much eighties, this new album does qu'asseoir status of producer Mark Ronson / composer indispensable to the English stage.




Mark Ronson & The Business Intl / / Record Collection
September 27 / / (Columbia)