Put It In The ReMixer

The remix is a curious thing. For a long time, Pa Love Machine did not understand them.

"What's wrong with the original? It's just the same song with some boom-boom-boom nonsense underneath it."

Of course, this is exactly what makes a brilliant remix. Take a great tune, make it dancefloor-friendly by putting some boom-boom nonsense underneath it. Hear it at our clubnight, job done.

Of course, there are a lot of bad remixes. Some are done for such music-industry conceptual reasons, which the humble consumer could never understand, like positioning, and targeting demographics outside of the ultimate target audience. Basically trying to make an uncool act with a rubbish song who the press and radio stations hate, cool, purely by assocation, and gaining that assocation by paying a lot of money. An act who are temporarily cool can take advantage of this and cash in on their 15 seconds in the hype-sun by charging exhorbitant fees for churning out rubbish.

Remixes also make record company people think they're doing something to help. A quite fantastic appraisal of the business of remixes can be seen here:



However, there are also some brilliant remixes out there. When genuine new talent with something to prove meets a great original song and puts a different spin on it. And some boom-boom-boom nonsense underneath. And we have two for you, enjoy.

Of the 19 (!) remixes of Lady Gaga Feat. Beyonce's new single 'Telephone' doing the rounds, here is this best one:

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Lady Gaga - Telephone - Crookers Vocal Remix (right click, save as to download)

And here is the Yes Giantess take on a song that we may have mentioned on Love Machine before:

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Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA - Yes Giantess Remix (right click, save as to download)

We're sure there's a video for the original knocking about somewhere......oh yes, here it is: