Remixes

[Waterwolf]

I heard a dance remix of the Andrews/Jules version of Mad World the other day, and it struck me as pointless, completely missing the point of that interpretation of the song. So, any thoughts on good or bad remixes?

[andy hughes]

I'm not sure remixes are 'goo' or 'bad' - just different. Personally, I don't like them. and I can see your point about the above. It gives the clubbers a chance to hear a great song, maybe trace the new version, or even the original.

[LeMarchand]

I'm not a fan of dance music at all. It seems that it's made by people on drugs for people on drugs. Sampling familiar melodies gives them something they can relate to, but they need the thudding bass line to dance to. Before anyone says that I don't know about what it's all about, I've spent far too much time in such places (working) watching wasted people wave their arms about to change my opinion.

[sft42]

Having worked in the music profession now for nearly half my life (and I'm only 30 before any wisecracks) I see this from both sides.....I started off as a DJ and I can understand that when people are out for a night partying and dancing then you do need a solid drum and/or bass line to give you something to dance to...but does this mean that dance songs should be obscure and only for dancing to....obviously not....so DJ's started to pick up originally on snippets of songs that people knew well and would loop them to give recognisable tunes that people knew but could dance to.....this has followed onto the extent now where the vocal track is lifted and just dropped on a drum and bass sample with a keyboard melody......A big part of me that once loved this cause it made my job so easy pleasing the punters now hates it all....My perspective has changed and I am now a gigging traditional musician and I hate to see people who have taken years learning to play being usurped by a machine and faceless, soulless technology......It comes down to horses for courses I suppose, both types have their place and time, but I think that even if you examine the last 15 years or so of music you'll see that the dance music (with a few noticeable exceptions) has faded quite badly while the "real" music has remained with us. History will let us know if this will last or not........As an interesting aside I have noticed a few musicians have started to do acoustic versions of dance songs....sweet revenge!