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Re: Good Remixes of Crap originals

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1994-01-28 19:02Good Remixes of Crap originals
1994-01-28 19:28Jon Drukman Re: Good Remixes of Crap originals
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1994-01-28 19:02LUKEY@WordPerfect.com>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >So what's your favorite track that's absolute crap to begin with, but >ha
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quoted 2 lines So what's your favorite track that's absolute crap to begin with,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >So what's your favorite track that's absolute crap to begin with,
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quoted 1 line has a great remix?>has a great remix?
quoted 1 line Front 242's Religion remixed by Twitch on Twitch CD 8.>Front 242's Religion remixed by Twitch on Twitch CD 8.
speaking as 1/3 of the team that did that remix, thanks. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Just out of curiosity, what inspires remix services and remixers in general to do house or trance remixes of industrial or alternative type music? It takes a lot more reworking than remixing another house or trance song. In the case of Religion, you pretty much had to throw away almost the entire song before you could start rebuilding it. Even the chord progression has changed.
1994-01-28 19:28Jon Drukman>>>Front 242's Religion remixed by Twitch on Twitch CD 8. >>speaking as 1/3 of the team th
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quoted 5 lines Front 242's Religion remixed by Twitch on Twitch CD 8.>>>Front 242's Religion remixed by Twitch on Twitch CD 8. >>speaking as 1/3 of the team that did that remix, thanks. >Just out of curiosity, what inspires remix services and remixers in >general to do house or trance remixes of industrial or alternative >type music?
in this case, i was a Front 242 fan from way back and bought the Religion single to hear what they were up to. (ok, bad mistake, but that's another story.)
quoted 4 lines It takes a lot more reworking than remixing another>It takes a lot more reworking than remixing another >house or trance song. In the case of Religion, you pretty much had >to throw away almost the entire song before you could start >rebuilding it. Even the chord progression has changed.
not so. we took the chord progression from the Prodigy Trance remix. but it's true that that was the only thing we took from the single. the other considerations when doing a remix for a remix service are: - are people going to buy the issue because of the artists? it's all very well and good to have 8 tracks by totally underground bands that nobody's ever heard of but when you're in the store paying cold hard cash don't you like to see names you're familiar with? at least a few in there so you can say "well i know i like these three bands, so maybe the others will be good as well." in the case of F242 i think a lot of people would be interested. - is the label going to give you permission to release the mix anyway? twitch had a pretty good relationship with Epic (you'll notice at least one Epic track on most of the issues from #7 on) so it was pretty much a given that they'd let us do F242. and we all thought we could make something better out of the given material. did we succeed? i'll leave that up to the individual listener to decide. /jon