Bring Back Real Remixes!

[Chicity]

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[konceptjones]

I don't like the concept of a remix.

Back in the early 80s, a remix was usually just a longer version of the album version. The beat would ride for a little longer towards the end, or there might be some sound effects in between verses. or sound effects throughout the song to make it sound different.


Sometime in the 90s two kinds of remixes came into existence;

1. The remix with a guest rapper(s) spitting verses (Flavor In Your Ear, I Shot Ya, I Wanna Be Down)

2. The remix where the song is the same but the beat is different (Can I Kick It, The Benjamins, One More Chance Hip Hop Remix)


Here's a remix I really liked. Its a song called Straight Out The Jungle, which was on the Jungle Brothers first album. But they extended the song and added some extra cuts and scratches.

Yes and no. In the 80's, a good number of hip hop singles that were released were remixes and the album version of the song was completely different.

Case in point: Steady B "Serious"

This is the album version:



This is the remixed version that was played on the radio and in the music video.




Gang Starr's Manifest album version





Versus the radio/video remix version





De La Soul's Buddy album version




And the radio/video remix version




Boogie Down Productions You Must Learn album version




And it's radio/video remix:





This was pretty common in the 80's. In the 90's the labels and artists pretty much stopped doing that and let the album versions of songs get spins and would remix it later. That's not to say that it didn't happen at all in the 90's 'cause the radio/video versions of Das EFX's "They Want Efx" and Black Sheep's "The Choice Is Yours" were both remixes.

 

[Pachá12]