Word: remixing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Geffen, whose label stopped distributing the Geto Boys in 1991 because he couldn't stomach their lyrics, also knows it's not so simple. Record companies routinely tell artists to remix their albums or record new tracks. Something like that happened two years ago at A&M records. Its president, Al Cafaro, heard a track intended for an album by the rap artist Intelligent Hoodlum. Bullet in the Brain was about killing a police officer. In the wake of the uproar over Ice-T's song Cop Killer, record executives everywhere were thinking twice. "It was nothing that we could...
Another highlight of the cd is "Dub 57 (Remix)," by The Toasters. The speedy rasta/hip hop-esque vocals and funky rythums make "Dub 57 (Remix)" a very exiting, highly danceable tune...
...album also features two very sucessful and quite different instrumental tunes. The first of these, "Factory Concerto (Remix)," by The Pietasters is a brief, but potent piece. With its heavy drums and trumpet, the song's rhythmic intensity builds extremely effectively, creating a fun and somewhat eerie mood. The second instumental, "Hi-Ball," by Skavoovie and the Epitones provides a marked contrast. Slower in pace, with piano, heavy bass and lots of horns, it shows the influence of lounge and jazz styles...
...electronic scrapbook that includes the singer's high school photos. CD-ROMs like Gabriel's Xplora and Rundgren's No World Order invite viewers/listeners to reassemble images and change tempo and mood, customizing tracks to their own tastes. One of Gabriel's upcoming projects, Eve, will allow users to remix sampled sounds while creating their own screen environment from images provided by four collaborating visual artists. While some in the arts might flinch at the notion of forfeiting control of their work, Gabriel champions the idea. ``The point is to put people inside the work of artists in such...
...some ways) a child of the eighties. I bought my first Village People album just last year and have had subsequently to search through numerous vintage music stores to feed my addiction to disco (If anyone know where I can find a copy of the original 8 minute remix of Donna Summer's " Last Dance"...). I have read about Studio 54 and heard many delicious stories of its wonders, but I have only the experience of contemporary nightclubs pumping with house music as a faint allusion to the campy Disco Decade...