“By the time we felt ready to release the album, and went back to listen to it, we all agreed that we liked it a lot, but that it came up short in the way we wanted it to sound. There was a kind of disconnect there. It did not measure up to what we wanted it to be. Initially we thought of simply remastering the album, but then we decided that we wanted someone to remix it. We thought of Philippe [Zdar], because we were familiar with some of his work, but we had never met him and did not know whether it would work …”

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• Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise