He is probably the British counterpart to Timbaland, the number one hit producer par excellence, but does not really seem to come to a common denominator their music. We're talking about Mark Ronson, the British music producer and DJ brought in 2007 his second album "Version" on the market. From him the super hit "Valerie" comes sung by Amy Winehouse, with whom he in the same year the successful album par excellence, "Back to Black", recorded and collected for a Grammy. In fact, the 38-year-old for any of his songs oiled the vocal cords, but united on his album the greats of British music scene, such as Lily Allen, Maximo Park frontman Paul Smith and Robbie Williams, just to touch on some of them. The board consists of 14 tracks that are cover versions of popular rock and pop songs for the most part. Probably the most common of all is "Toxic". Originally sung by Britney Spears, imparts a smoky male voice the song a completely new sound, so you may only recognize the track at the second hearing. In fact, seem from the originals probably only text and melody to his left, the best example is "Oh My God". Lily Allen gives the original of the Kaiser Chiefs' eingeschrienen "song with her voice a unique sexy sound that just so inviting to swing. Even three of Mark Ronson produced new instrumental versions make the disc to a perfect ensemble of rock, pop, hip hop and Big Band, which no one can close. ML