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why do top producers make remixes??
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| trance[]control-fan |
| is it cause it the most popular song or they love the song? |
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| GrimReaper |
one reason: they are asked for doing a remix
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another reason: they want to make the track sound like they prefer more. |
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| Pjotr G |
| Another reason, they get payed big bucks to do so |
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| Flippe |
| quote: | Originally posted by Pjotr G
Another reason, they get payed big bucks to do so |
I think this isn't the meost important reason!
They do the rmxes bcause they can use them better in their mixes! |
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| Renegade |
Well, with regards to any remixes that have been released commercially (i.e. available to the general public, not just some white label with like 20 copies pressed), 99% of the time the remixers would have been approached by the original artists record company to to produce the mixes. I think you'd find that it's pretty rare that a producer actually explicitly chooses what tracks he's going to remix without being asked to do so first.
Am I making sense? :conf:
Erm, yeah, I'm not so sure that money's necessarily a big factor in it though. Unless it's a proven remixer remixing a proven artist (i.e. Timo Maas remixing Madonna's Don't Tell Me) I don't think these comparatively small record companies have all that much money to splash around to lure big name remixers. Generally, if you find a big name producer remixing the track of a lesser known artist (which is quite common), either the remixer and the original artist are under contract with the same record company, or the remixer is doing it purely for the love of the music.
Which is how it should be. :) |
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| Renegade |
Oh, and in case this was the point of the orignal question, the record companies draft in the remixers to try and aid the sales of their music. An LP (or a CD single) with any productional input from Paul Van Dyk is going to sell better than the equivalent release without the PVD "flava".
Take Binary Finary - 1998. While it was on the Aquarius label (named 1997 btw) none but the hardcore of us had heard it, because the big name remixers weren't there to boost publicity. But as soon as Positiva picked it up, and packaged it with the PVD and Matt Darey remixes (easily two of the biggest trance artsists at that time), the whole thing blew up.
Although, admittedly, I seem to remember that this was one of those tracks that producers actually wanted to get their hands on, it still serves the point of this post in demonstrating the benfits record companies have in hiring big name producers to do remixes for a track that would otherwise be condemned to a "mail-order only" type of existence. |
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| Renegade |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
Am I making sense? :conf: |
No, but I can forsee a very smart, sexy future for you... |
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| Sand Leaper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
No, but I can forsee a very smart, sexy future for you... |
Not if you keep replying to your own posts like you have a split personality disorder :p |
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| tc-fan |
| also they remixe it cuase either they like the tune soo much or they prob say "i dont like the way it sound, maybe i can remix it betta" |
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| Eric Foard |
I would'nt know.
But one way or another money talks. |
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| CJ InterCity |
| quote: | Originally posted by tc-fan
also they remixe it cuase either they like the tune soo much or they prob say "i dont like the way it sound, maybe i can remix it betta" |
yep |
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