Pitchfork on remixing

"Somehow, the melody and chord changes never completely got old. I will say that after hearing 30 remixes in a row, I would find myself thinking, "How does the song actually go again?" Which is sort of the idea, really. There is no "real song" now; there are only "stems." Radiohead chose to assemble them one way; people here decided to assemble them another-- adding their own bits, and leaving some of Radiohead's bits out."

A well-written piece on dance music's newly popular promo habit - releasing the parts of big tracks for remixing, usually for a price. Some points: contemporary music software means all remixes in a Radiohead remixing competition sounded technically competent, but few were original enough to alter the vocal; and someone can always be trusted to turn out a cheesy eurotrance remix...For what it's worth, it's unlikely that anyone bettered the Justin Martin mix...

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