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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I totally disagree with this, for two reasons. Firstly, a record that is famous just for its distinctive hook is surely far more open to remixing, because you can transpose that hook into many different styles and contexts. It also implies that the rest of the track isn't very memorable, and therefore more disposable. And secondly, I don't agree that Greece 2000 is "all hook" anyway. My favourite thing about Greece 2000 is the rumbling bassline and percs, which together are far groovier than the majority of your breakdown-melody trance classics, and indeed most of the remixes that have come out down the years. |
I'm not fully on board with this. A record as iconic as Greece 2000 necessitates a certain level of faithfulness, and there are only so many detours you can make and creative decisions you can make when remixing before it ceases to be one (or to be accepted as one). It's for that reason so many of these classic remixes rarely take you by surprise, for while you can't predict in advance what you'll hear, what you do hear sounds safely consistent with something you'd expect.
That transposition onto different styles and into different contexts winds up being just that: a recontextualization, which mostly amounts to just serving up the same dish with a different side. Compare this with remixing other records that aren't so inextricably locked into their lead melodies, and I think more interesting possibilities open up. Take something like Sacred Cycles, which has so much going on from beginning to end while still distinguished by an unmistakable sound, and you can do far more than simply situate it in different styles and contexts. Leama & Moor were fantastic at this, who would stay tethered to the original but still stretch it for miles in an entirely different direction.
As for everything outside of the hook, I get you appreciate the buildup involved in something like Greece 2000, but can you honestly say that it's not at least in part because that buildup carries with it a familiar sense of anticipation? There's nothing especially unique about
*da-dumdum-dum/clap/da-dumdum-dum/clap/*, but anyone who hears this particular variation on this particular theme knows what's coming next, so to what extent are you able to disassociate the two?
Remixing is fine. Some of my favorite releases are remixes of tracks that are less impressive as originals, but approaching certain classics with the intent to remix seems inherently prohibitive, and the result is usually just fun, familiar, and forgettable.
[and yeah, I really need to work on getting back to people in a reasonable amount of time]
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Last edited by Paradox Lost on Dec-24-2018 at 10:37
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