It's the Remix »
Posted By mattreep 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Arts & EntertainmentAt its core, remixing is a musical conversation between two artists. You have the original recording by one artist, of course, and then another artist – whether requested or not – either isolates, enlarges, or changes the recording in some way. It drives home the notion that we all listen to music in an individualistic way, and that what a remixer hears, and subsequently creates out of another work, is a reflection of how they view the artist, the music, and even music in general. Sometimes, artist remixes seem less an evocation of the original song than an exercise in cut and paste by the remixer. And sometimes, the remix and original are hewn so closely together that the remix feels utterly pointless. Think of the disco drums added to Kiss releases in intervening years, or the myriad of pointless dance remixes thrown onto the b-sides of singles since time immemorial.
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