12″ Masters – The Essential Mixes

This article is about the Justin Timberlake album. For the Kylie Minogue album, see 12" Masters – Essential Mixes.

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).

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)

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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Cry Me a River" (Dirty Vegas Vocal Mix)	Justin Timberlake Timothy Mosley Scott Storch	Timbaland Dirty Vegas[a]	8:11
2.	"LoveStoned/I Think She Knows" (Tiësto Remix)	Timberlake Mosley Nate Hills	Timberlake Danja Timbaland Tiësto[a]	5:11
3.	"Like I Love You" (Basement Jaxx Vocal Mix)	Timberlake Chad Hugo Pharrell Williams	Williams Hugo Basement Jaxx[a]	6:04
4.	"Rock Your Body" (Paul Oakenfold Mix)	Timberlake Hugo Williams	Williams Hugo Paul Oakenfold[a]	5:41
5.	"Señorita" (Num Club Mix)	Timberlake Hugo Williams	Williams Hugo Hani[a]	7:43
6.	"My Love" (Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso Mix)	Timberlake Mosley Hills	Timberlake Danja Timbaland Steve Angello[a] Sebastian Ingrosso[a]	10:16
7.	"SexyBack" (Linus Loves Remix)	Timberlake Mosley Hills	Timberlake Danja Timbaland John Clark[a] Linus[a]	6:18
8.	"LoveStoned/I Think She Knows" (Justice Remix)	Timberlake Mosley Hills	Timberlake Danja Timbaland Justice[a]	4:45
9.	"What Goes Around... Comes Around" (Sebastien Leger Remix — Radio Edit)	Timberlake Mosley Hills	Timberlake Danja Timbaland Sebastien Leger[a]	4:14
10.	"Rock Your Body" (Sander Kleinenberg's Just in the Club Mix)	Timberlake Hugo Williams	Williams Hugo Sander Kleinenberg[a] E. Kalberg[a] S. Moljin[a]	9:32
11.	"SexyBack" (Pokerface Remix)	Timberlake Mosley Hills	Timberlake Danja Timbaland Omar Chandla[a] Ryan Munroe[a]	6:34
Total length:				74:29

Notes

• ^{^a} signifies a remixer

Release history

Country	Date	Label
Germany	September 17, 2010	Sony
France	September 20, 2010
United Kingdom
Japan	November 24, 2010