Favorite Remix Albums

hmmm, all these people are British... the only American remix thing I can think of that I really dug was the Blues Explosion remix ep (Wu- Tang, Calvin Johnson, even, dare I say it, that bald, vegetarian, techno guy...)

That's the best of the three according to not just me but also Danielle Metzler of Slipped Discs in Athens, GA (remember that Onion article?): When she was ringing up the U.N.K.L.E. thing, I said, 'These are supposed to be really good.' So she says, 'Yeah, but if you're not going to get them all, the DJ Krush is really the one to go with.'

I would also mention the BBC1 Essential Mixes, which have a devoted worldwide following. Some of them are amazing.

Does anyone know if that Herbert remix compilation is any good?

destroy: dance!...ya know it, j to tha l.o., shut up and dance, no more games

i think that as a rule remaix albums that are a collection of one remixers remixes are better than remix albums where 10 people remix one artists work. its obvious i guess, because just likea cover versions album you,re only going to like some of the artists involved whereas with one remixer i supose you would buy it coz u liked the remixer

More terrific remix albums are...

Music for Airports - Bang on a Can All-Stars
Dub Side of the Moon - Easy Star All-Stars
(all star favorite remix albums!)

No love for the late 80's spate of House remix albums by *massive* artists? Madonna's You Can Dance, Bobby Brown's Dance..Ya Know It, Paula Abdul's Shut Up And Dance,
Janet The Remixes etc? It appears not :(

um... the OBVIOUS answer is

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mary j. blige - whats the 411 remixes

DUH GUYS

Favorite Remix Albums

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yeah, seminal

i cannot name one i like

I don't think this is much liked, but I've gotten some mileage out of Sparks 12" Mixes. (Literally, it's one of my roadtrip favorites.)

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Disk 2 of The Trentemøller Chronicles

Pentamorous Metamorphosis - Global Communications remixes of Chapterhouse. Better than 76:14 by a wide margin.

not generally a fan of this genre, but Primal Scream's Echo Dek is phenomenal, and strangely, the Pastels remix album is quite good.

Lots of good ones imho. Yello - The New Mix in One Go; Echo Dek for sure; Remix Party by Tipsy - fkng awesome. The Human League Unlimited Orchestra is good but the Fascination! EP is better and it's more or less a remix album. The other Sparks one Plagiarism, but that just might be only me that likes it. The 12" of McCarthy's This Nelson Rockefeller has some great remixes of their early stuff on the b-side - maybe my favourite release by them. The Beatles Let it Be Naked saves a fairly half-assed album, as does the Yellow Submarine Songtrack for that matter whereas "Love" is just stupid. Erm...Cornelius has a couple of good ones, Pet Shop Boys, . Could probably go on.

Dud: Kraftwerk's The Mix. Evidence of a talent in decline.

Plagiarism was Sparks rerecording their songs rather than straight up remixes though, right? I like much of that one.

I'll also stan for The Mix, but I know most Kraftwerk fans hate it.

I'm realizing though that I don't own many remix albums, and most are probably very dated sounding, like Blondie and Sugarcubes.

i still like 'wishful thinking' by propaganda.

and i probably listened to the gorillaz remix/dub album more than the original.

The remix album of the Manics' Journal for Plague Lovers has a weirdly high hit:miss ratio.

I desperately want the Underworld remix of Williams Last Words on vinyl but the freaking ltd edition vinyl of that comp is so expensive.

That one should have been the album version. I prefer the Weatherall take on "Peeled Apples," as well.

Imagination - Night Dubbing

recently picked up the joe claussell re-interpretation of redhead by machine (matt edwards/radioslave)

totally ignored upon its release - possibly due to the chaos of special limited editions - but its a brilliant revision.

a lot more bottom end funk in the mix - at times sounding like a lot laswell/axiom classic.

lot = lost