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12" Masters – The Essential Mixes
Remix album by Justin Timberlake
Released	September 17, 2010 (2010-09-17)
Recorded	2002–2006
Length	74:29
Label	Sony Jive
Producer	Steve Angello Basement Jaxx Omar Chandla John Clark Danja Dirty Vegas Hani Chad Hugo Sebastian Ingrosso Justice E. Kalberg Sander Kleinenberg Sebastien Leger Linus S. Moljin Ryan Munroe Paul Oakenfold Tiësto Timbaland Justin Timberlake Pharrell Williams
Justin Timberlake chronology
FutureSex/ LoveSounds (2006) 12" Masters – The Essential Mixes (2010) The 20/20 Experience (2013)

12" Masters – The Essential Mixes (commonly referred to as simply Essential Mixes) is a remix album by American singer and songwriter Justin Timberlake. It was released on September 17, 2010, by Sony Music Entertainment and Jive Records. The album contains remixes of tracks from his first two studio albums: Justified (2002) and FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006).

Composition

12" Masters – The Essential Mixes features 11 "club-friendly reworkings" of Timberlake's singles spanning from 2002 to 2007.

Critical reception

According to Jon O'Brien of AllMusic, 12" Masters – The Essential Mixes will "at the very least bump up his sparse back catalog", suggesting that it will satisfy his "army of fans" that are desperate for new music. He noted that remix albums are "notoriously hard to pull off", as they have the tendency to "smother the original" in "generic pounding beats" and "repetitive synths", which leads to the concept's downfall. O'Brien wrote that: "Luckily, Essential Mixes, one of a series of a 2010 releases that has also tackled the works of Kylie Minogue, Usher, and Avril Lavigne, features a consistently stellar lineup of hotshot and well-respected producers who are a cut above the copy-and-paste merchants usually wheeled out for these types of affairs." He concluded that, while the album "doesn't always do justice to the consistently brilliant source material", it is an "intriguing stopgap" that shows Timberlake's sound is "capable of translating to the Ibiza dance scene as well as the U.S. R&B clubs".

Track listing

Notes

• signifies a remixer

Release history

References

1. "Justin Timberlake - 12" Masters - the Essential Mixes - Sony Music Entertainment Germany GMBH". Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2018-11-26.
2. ^ "Essential Mixes – Justin Timberlake – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic.
3. "12 Masters-the Essential Mixes". 17 September 2010 – via Amazon.
4. "Essential Mixes". 20 September 2010 – via Amazon.
5. "Essential Mixes". 20 September 2010 – via Amazon.
6. "エッセンシャル・ミックス" – via Amazon.

• 2010 remix albums
• Justin Timberlake albums
• Jive Records remix albums
• Sony Music remix albums
• Albums produced by Justin Timberlake
• Albums produced by Timbaland
• Albums produced by the Neptunes
• Albums produced by Danja (record producer)