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80 '08 (and heartbreak)

No. 11: The Year Of The Remix

Remixes have been a constant since the late '70s. Artists have been holding remix contests since at least 1983, when Tommy Boy advertised for a prize to the chancer(s) who best recast G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid's "Play That Beat, Mr. DJ" and inadvertently birthed unto the world Double Dee & Steinski, the latter of whose What Does It All Mean? overview was released this year to great (and deserved) acclaim. R&B and hip-hop and disco and indie rock and house and techno and dub and mainstream pop with its different mixes for different formats and even country (what's Up!, Shania Twain): all not only utilize the remix, each genre has its own set of rules for it. And between NIN and Radiohead's fan-made deconstructions grabbing headlines and cut-up disco ruling clubland, not to mention the usual fusillade of hip-hop mixtape posse cuts, dance producers trading tweaks as normal, and—fuck it—Girl Talk, 2008 is a Year of the Remix if any has been. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Dec 30 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
432 views, 12 comments

Latest by mhulot: Finally, some love for Steinski from somebody. "The Payoff Mix" is pretty much perfection. There were some pretty great hip hop remixes this year too. The Knux remixed their own "Cappuccino," which was killer to begin with, and may have improved more »

listening station

Alphabeat Are Livin' In The '80s

We can attest to the truth and rightness of Time Out New York arts editor Elisabeth Vincentelli about Alphabeat's new "Boyfriend (Pete Hammond Remix)," which she has an MP3 link for—it really is like a late-'80s time machine, and I say that as someone who actually sat through all of the three-CD Stock Aitken Waterman: Gold (third disc features the 7-minute megamixes!). Hammond was one of SAW's main men, and he takes Alphabeat's song back in time so effectively you'll start looking for jelly shoes to dance to it in. [The Determined Dilettante]

11:30 AM on Wed Aug 6 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
233 views, 7 comments

Latest by Nunya B: @ITMS: Oh please, do you know how much money Matthew Knowles is willing to spend on getting that bitch a hit? That collaboration will pay for a good two, three years of cutesy videos. Besides, Kelendria wants to work with Kate more »

videodrone

Two Germans Get (And Make Fun Of) "Minimal"


Funny to hear this track for a couple reasons. One, it's called "Minimal" and is a fairly fizzy anthem, the kind of record you hear at the end of the night in a club simply because playing it elsewhere would likely throw a DJ set's balance off. The other is that the guy behind the original, Matias Aguayo, used to record as Closer Musik, and he's made some of the most obviously (and opulently) minimal tracks as is possible; so has the remixer of this version, DJ Koze, who is also responsible for one of the most outlandish "cover" versions I've ever heard, an extraordinary piss-take of "We Are the World" tucked at the end of a track recorded under the alias Adolf Noise. But this—this drunken piss-take on its ostensible category ("Cause this music got no groove, got no balls, no merci") is the kind of track we might have thrown into the Summer Jams Tournament if it had come out on time. [YouTube]

12:15 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
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buddyhead invented the remix!

New Guns N' Roses Track Gets Tweaked By Buddyhead


"Hey, Axl! Wake up, man! Been 14 years, 15 years you've been sleeping... get your hair braided, man. Let's do this!" I tuned out on Buddyhead once they ran out of singers worth revealing the phone numbers of and moved on to posting Primal Scream MP3s, so I'm pleasantly surprised by this brilliant remix of Guns N' Roses' dubby "If The World," a.k.a. "New Song No. 3" from The Antiquiet Sessions. "Buddyhead rock right, Axl know! Fifteen years in the fields of blow! Hair so tight, white-boy corn rows! True rock shit, Real rock n' roll!" If the right producer (who doesn't fear litigation) hears this, it could wind up becoming a popular mixtape loop. "Cease and desist, bitches!" [Buddyhead via Velvet Rope]

9:30 AM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Anthony Miccio
347 views, 3 comments

Latest by nothingwhatsoever: Axl needs to stop throwing a tantrum every two seconds over petty shit. That said, here's another link: [smg.photobucket.com] ;) more »

R. Kelly horns in on The Dream's "Shawty Is A Ten," teaches me that the song's real title is "Shawty Is The Shit." [The Fader]

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M.I.A.'s hazy "Paper Planes" gets some rhymes thrown on it by Bun B and Rich Boy. (And there's an instrumental version of the track, too, in case you'd like to throw a Wreckx-N-Effect verse into the mix.) [Mad Decent]

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Simian Mobile Disco remixes "Hands Off My Gold," another track from Celebration's forthcoming LP The Modern Tribe, and transforms the song into a spiraling late-night workout. [Beggars Group Blog]

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remixes

Second-Hand News: A Killer Fleetwood Mac Remix

Forgive us for being late with this one, but the Trailmix remix of Fleetwood Mac's "You Make Lovin' Fun" (available below) is one of the best dance records of the year. According to Discogs, it came out originally in March, and appeared in May on the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas's edition of BBC 1's Essential Mix. "YMLF" has long been my favorite song on Rumours, and by jettisoning the chorus and concentrating on the slinky-disco intro and verses, Trailmix turn it into a robo-house gem: More »

4:32 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By mmatos
1,241 views, 8 comments

Latest by westartedthis: i don't know about jettisoning - a re-working of the chorus could have sent this thing through the fucking roof. more »

kevin shields

Kevin Shields Really Getting Good At This "Procrastination" Thing

From the track listing for the upcoming "Marie Antoinette" soundtrack:
"I Want Candy" (Kevin Shields remix), Bow Wow Wow
"Fools Rush In" (Kevin Shields remix), Bow Wow Wow More »

10:54 AM on Wed Sep 6 2006
By mjohnston
67 views, 1 comment