From nick Sent Wed, Jan 13th 1999, 14:01
From nick Sent Wed, Jan 13th 1999, 14:01
> nothing to rush out and get...weak remixes of weak pop songs (imo) I couldn't disagree more. I'm not familiar with most of the original tracks but I think it's a great set of remixes. The MoM remix is particularly good. It takes a muffled vocal loop, layers up a bit, shoves on a large chunk of the original vocal before losing the singing and letting rip with fast percussion and silly noises. Then it calms down and the nice muffled vocal loop returns. It seems to me that there are two ends of the spectrum when it comes to remixing a track: (1) The originals crap so I shall take nothing little or nothing from it and basically create a new track. (2) The orignal is _so_ good that it would be disrespectful to alter it in any major way so I shall just put a different beat on and maybe make the intro a bit longer. The overall feeling I get from this album is that the majority of remixers have hit just the right mark for a project like this. The remixers clearly wish to retain some elements of the original work (to varying degrees) but there is no awe or reverence that might prevent them from having some creative input. It comes across as a series of collaborations more than mindless remixes and consequently hangs together as an _album_ rather well. Nick