r&b booty bass b-side remixes from the late 90s are one of my favorite types of music

inspired by dyl dropping this Brian McKnight remix in the So So Def All-Stars thread. like 50% of all r&b singles released between 96-99 have these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwdYsvh3UhY

Usher - Nice & Slow (B-Rock's Basement Mix)

I feel like this might have been the biggest (and best) example of this phenomenon? I remember hearing it on the radio almost as much as the original back in the day. Also the first place I heard Twista.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHFzYvjK6xk

Aaliyah - One in a Million (Wolf-D Big Bass Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/thesoundconnect/aaliyah-one-in-a-million-wolf

Mya - It's All About Me (Slammin' Sam Wesside Rhythm Mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLxZBWi-h5g

Tamia - Imagination (Lil Jon Bass Mix)

Of course Lil Jon is a major figure here. Early Ludacris sighting too! The spanish guitar on the rap bridge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAn9VO7wlss

Outkast - SpottieOttieDopaliscious (Carl Mo Remix)

I don't think this one was ever even officially released. Been one of my secret club weapons for a minute tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcUP2uMdCHU

112 - Anywhere (Emperor Searcy Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcUP2uMdCHU

Maxwell - Luxury: Cococure (Mixzo Mix)

This one feels like it's shouldn't work but it's l o v e l y. I can't find it for the life of me. Mixzo is a secrete bassgod who the real heads should know. He also did this amazing bass/house hybrid remix of "Rock the Boat" but that's a bit outside this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxQjZHqcBTw

Ginuwine - (Black Market Slowride)

This is a weird one. Some dark bass route that was otherwise never taken. I think this is Emperor Searcy too? There's a more standard Black Market bass mix but it's not that great.

post your faves. OG 12" jams only, no retro-wave soundcloud shit.

err forgot to link the ginuwine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSibT5YXhDo

i love these a lot rev! and most in your op are new to me :D the only ones i knew beforehand were the brian mcknight, the tamia, and the aaliyah (that one i found a couple years ago after i heard a mix show on the radio with a different, kinda shoddily done bass mix to "one in a million" and wondered if there was an actual/better one out there somewhere... google pointed the way.)

every once in a while i get caught up in listening to a lot of bass and bass-indebted r&b/freestyle from around this time, so it's nice to see there is much more to discover next time i wander down that rabbithole :) i esp love the ones where the original song is a little sad/regretful lyrically, makes a contrast with the propulsive beat that kinda holds my emotions in a strange grip

gosh that outkast/carl mo one is really something. carl mo's kind of a genius isn't he? i still hear "the way you move" on the radio quite a bit and often find myself wondering how he didn't become one of the industry's go-to producers.

Mixzo is a secrete bassgod who the real heads should know. He also did this amazing bass/house hybrid remix of "Rock the Boat" but that's a bit outside this thread.

omg yes! i actually heard that "rock the boat" remix a long time ago, way before i got rly into this kinda music. i used to play dance dance revolution (yes i was one of ~those~ kids) on a hacked arcade cabinet that let ppl import songs and steps onto it beyond just the official ones -- and that remix had been imported onto the machine (with excellent steps, by the way! :P ). i remember being shocked and amazed when i realized years later that he was the same guy who produced "swing my way" and all!

i have these recordings on cd that i bought from playa poncho (yes the "whatz up whatz up" guy, lol) of 'pillow bass' tapes they apparently used to sell in atlanta in the early 90s. basically a few radio dj's in the area would play r&b slow jams that were popular on the radio at the time, but mix in some bass beats as well -- and it was popular enough that people would buy them on tape as well. nothing too fancy or amazing, but i'm pretty sure carl mo said those were part of the inspiration of that wave of bass/r&b remixes and "my boo" and whatnot that would come later. definitely an interesting curiosity! i haven't listened to them for a while, as sadly the tape audio transfers were mediocre-to-poor quality, but i oughta have another listen some time.

3 Way Playaz - Shorty Swings Both Ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVNrr_tEJuQ

I'm more looking for versions of songs that weren't bass to begin with.

i have these recordings on cd that i bought from playa poncho (yes the "whatz up whatz up" guy, lol) of 'pillow bass' tapes they apparently used to sell in atlanta in the early 90s. basically a few radio dj's in the area would play r&b slow jams that were popular on the radio at the time, but mix in some bass beats as well -- and it was popular enough that people would buy them on tape as well. nothing too fancy or amazing, but i'm pretty sure carl mo said those were part of the inspiration of that wave of bass/r&b remixes and "my boo" and whatnot that would come later. definitely an interesting curiosity! i haven't listened to them for a while, as sadly the tape audio transfers were mediocre-to-poor quality, but i oughta have another listen some time.

Interesting parallel with Ron G's blend tapes in NYC that inspired MJB-style "hip hop soul".

I need to learn more about the freestyle from this era too. Obv a lot of overlap there.

lol this reads like a soulstrut thread. don't take boring alt-reality too far now

good spread of styles in the op selection. "like 50% of all r&b singles released between 96-99" is the wild exaggeration, 5% would be generous ime! think we're talking like a sideline niche of 25 to maybe a thin 40 tracks for proper major label reproductions, the vast majority of which were done by the handful of go-to producers covered upthread who all featured in the credits for the popular bass compilations. straightforward discogs biz

the commercial intersection (as far as u can call it) is kinda what makes this stuff, it's primped up - as dyl suggests the body of the scene wouldve been more rudimentary and functional, tapes or local club dj white labels of acappellas over planet rock or w/e and yeah verging onto just raunchy freestyle as in the mya/slammin sam

still ain't nothing in this world like those mixzo numbers, totally sui generis new protoplasmic lifeforms under the microscope, the maxwell one morphing between bass atl to timbo va to tx suave house with maxwell himself transcendently avant-rarefying it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inmcQ0nmPbg

classic thred

still love this type of music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unhDdgT6rRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfBfMZN9e4

new edition - i'm still in love with you (concrete jungle remix)

may i come across and subsequently fall in love with another one of these every month for the rest of my life