Gravity Collapse » remixes http://www.gravitycollapse.com from Marc's brain to yours Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:35:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 5 great 1980s remixes that are better than the album versions http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2009/02/5-great-1980s-remixes-that-are-better-than-the-album-versions http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2009/02/5-great-1980s-remixes-that-are-better-than-the-album-versions#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:06:46 +0000 gravitycollapse http://www.gravitycollapse.com/?p=88 I’ll continue the “5 great” list with these 12″ gems from the 1980s. They may not necessarily be my favorite 12″ tracks of the 1980s, but these are instances where the remix of the song improves markedly on the original version. And this also means it excludes tracks that were issued on 12″ first, or 12″ only (like Pump Up The Volume, for example).

What makes a great remix? Well, that depends on what type of remix it is. In this case, the criteria is remixes that don’t stray so far from the original as to be essentially a completely different song, but which alter the original enough that it really adds depth, or goes in a new direction

When I was in high school in the 1980s, remixing was what I really dreamed of doing, although I never pursued that path. Consider this my homage to some good engineers.

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