What is the best remix of all time?

voted Ice Cube "It Was a Good Day"

I don't know any remixes of that tune, who remixed it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr0XEcUmD4s

not sure who did it, probably Pooh or Sir Jinx would be my guess

would like these in one zip file plz.

voted Eric B / Coldcut but tons of classics here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_d4fWZpB4

been listening to a ton of 80s shep remixes lately. The man is a god. Can't see poll options on iPhone so will have to vote later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6y_4_b6RS8

blank, if you spring for the Zing app you can see polls and vote from your iPhone. It's worth the money.

would like these in one zip file plz.

ditto.

I'll see what I can do about the zip next week...

I didn't include any rap style remixes like "Ignition (Remix)" that add new vocals and lyrics to the tune, because IMO they are more like reworkings, rather than remixes in the traditional sense of the word.

You can't just have "of all time" in a poll title and then not have any Kanye or Beyonce answers! >:-(

;-)

Shut 'Em Down

but what about Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp/artists/a/azzido_da_bass/clips/dooms_night.shtml

Are these clips gone, or is it just blocked out to me?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v1feukfKMnE/S06J5ILau6I/AAAAAAAAAI0/z6U-qXrTeNY/s320/Donna+Summer+-+I+Feel+Love(Patrick+Cowley+Remix).jpg

sorry…

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v1feukfKMnE/S06J5ILau6I/AAAAAAAAAI0/z6U-qXrTeNY/s320/Donna+Summer+-+I+Feel+Love(Patrick+Cowley+Remix).jpg

i find this conceptually impossible

Not familiar with much on your list, sorry, but here is a personal favourite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU18UbBQ_Yo

Where is "Ignition (Remix)"

Read the posts above.

Have to go with "I Feel Love", didn't know most of these though. The Prince remix is cool — kinda like Housequake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUAo3PQ8WBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMtTOEFuwE&feature=related

I did a similar d&b remix to these of Luniz' I Got 5 On It back in da day, on my Amiga! Only 3 people heard it. Two of them seemed to like it, though.

none of these are the razor sharp remix of you'll all i need to get by

Pretty sure there's a Mickey Finn or DJ Zinc or somebody remix of "I Got 5 On It" too

Pretty sure that "Ready or Not" mix is Zinc tbh. Youtubers not entirely noted for accuracy.

Arthur Baker remix of "She Bop" changed my life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwxyX-UqLi8&feature=related

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7cf4dm

So yeah, all the 30 remixes on my list would've been too much to upload as one zip file, so I split them into two. Here's the first part, covering the years from 1977 to 1993.

awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzzukSEdTU

Noodle Vague causing major flashbacks with the No Diggity and Ready or Not DnB remixes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lowH1KmvQZI

http://www.sendspace.com/file/a3uy7l

Here's the second part as a zip file, it covers the years from 1994 to 2009. It also includes a special bonus track that wasn't included in the poll (though it should've been), because I forgot about it.

Out of these, voted Summer/Cowley, with Rakim/Black/More/Haza in second place

not sure who did it, probably Pooh or Sir Jinx would be my guess

Never even heard OF that remix before, but it def sounds like Pooh on the youtube

Noodle Vague causing major flashbacks with the No Diggity and Ready or Not DnB remixes.

Never heard of that No Diggity mix (surely a bootleg anyway?) either but the little bass squiggle that’s not taken from the original is sweeet

None of the ones above deserve my votes. These would have done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Niwrx19lUQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scVZuQfLoho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piv0ZK7frnU

(The latter two changed very little from the original, but the few changes they did were genius)

(Basically I am totally against the idea of remixing a vintage song to fit with more recent trends - music sounded better in the past!)

that mix of "Heart" rivals "Suburbia" in the "PSB take a great song and completely fuck over the single edit by making it unbearable" stakes

"Suburbia" was also better in the remixed version.

thanks for the zips.

Suburbia (The Full Horror) is the definitive vers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B0iPycb-Oc

I didn't mention it in the original post, but I also excluded remixes done by the original artist or the original producer of the song - the poll has only mixes done by outside remixers. Otherwise the list of potential tunes would've been overwhelmingly long.

these zips are making today so delightful! i am not sure i will ever be able to choose.

I didn't mention it in the original post, but I also excluded remixes done by the original artist or the original producer of the song - the poll has only mixes done by outside remixers.

A concept that I am very much against, because it changes the character of the song.

As soon as I saw Geir had posted on a remix thread I just couldn't look away.

A concept that I am very much against, because it changes the character of the song.

Isn't "changing the character of the song" what remixing is all about? Though some of the earlier disco mixes I included, such as "Love Is the Message" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" don't really change the tune much, mostly just extend it.

Isn't "changing the character of the song" what remixing is all about?

I generally strongly dislike the concept of remixing. The only exception would be adding a snare drum or maybe an extra synth or bass sound to make the single version sound catchier than the original.

The remix of "Disco 2000" to me is perfect because it does nothing except make the snare drum more powerful and add a synth effect to the bridge. Otherwise, it's the same great song.

For me, the finished version of a song after the band leaves the studio, and are ready to release the album, is the one and only and definite version and usually there should never be more than one version of the same song. Write new songs instead.

And, yes, I strongly dislike cover versions too.

The rest of us wanna get Loaded...

.. and have a good time.

The Summer/Cowley possibly IS the best remix of all time. So that was nice and easy!

I ended up voting for "Show Me Love". It's a brilliant tune, of course, but it's also quite remarkable in that the remix took an obscure (and not quite as brilliant) piece of pop house and changed everything except the vocals, thus creating a template for many other house tunes, as well as changing the course of Robin S.'s career. It's telling that most people don't even know there was an original, totally different version of the tune, but the sound of the Stonebridge remix is instantly recognizable to anyone who listened to dance music in the 90s.

Voted 'The Unofficial Ghost' for old times sake

20 of my favourite remixes off the top of my head:

new order - confusion (pump panel reconstruction)
my bloody valentine - soon (andy weatherall mix)
energy 52 - cafe del mar (3 in 1 mix)
the klf - 3am eternal (orbital blue danube mix)
robert owens - i'll be your friend (perfecto mix)
robert armani - circus bells (hardfloor mix)
golden girls - kinetic (david morley's apollo mix)
gentle people - journey (aphex twin care mix)
method man - release yo'delf (prodigy mix)
telex - moskow diskow (carl craig mix)

tina moore - never gonna let you go (kelly g pump and go mix)
tori amos - professional widow (armand's star trunk funkin' mix)
todd terry - somethin's goin' on (loop da loop uptown mix)
super_collider - darn cold way of lovin' (harvey's collision course mix)
underworld - jumbo (jedis sugar hit mix)
phoenix - if i ever feel better (todd edwards mix)
dizzee rascal - i luv u (remix ft wiley, sharkey & major)
junior boys - last exit (fennesz mix)
felix da housecat - silver screen shower scene (thin white duke mix)
cortney tidwell - don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson objects in space mix)

Hard not to vote Levan or Moulton, but that Masters at Work remix is really fantastic.

ooh can someone please post super_collider - darn cold way of lovin' (harvey's collision course mix)?

voted for patrick cowley.

might have voted for m.f.a. - "the difference it makes (superpitcher remix)"

but yeah, the question is so broad as to be essentially unanswerable.

MFA/Superpitcher is definitely top 50 of all time

voted mory kante. lol at geir

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BIG BOOTY BITCHES

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glad we got that settled

Huh, didn't expect Seven Minutes of Madness to win so clearly...

every American did, though

Huh, what do you mean?

I think he means americans were always going to vote for the hip hop choice

not exactly how I would have put it but my argument kind of boils down to that

But the remix is by an UK duo, and it was popular only in Europe (I think), plus it sounds European too. If Americans wanted to vote for proper American hip hop, wouldn't they have voted for the Big L tune?

these zips are making today so delightful! i am not sure i will ever be able to choose.

Nwo they're making my day delightful. Thanks so much!

No prob.

NME just named Soon (Andrew Weatherall Mix) the top remix of all time.

http://www.nme.com/photos/the-50-best-remixes-ever/225665/1/1 <-- terrible one-per-page format

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXaW8aGNTrw

Lol old people. Is it too late to change my vote to the C+C remix of Love On Top of Love? Oh wait I never voted. If I could choose anything I'm going with

Gold: Can - Future Days (Carl Craig Remix)
Silver: Antena - Camino Del Sol (Joakim Remix)
Bronze: Aphex Twin - Cliffs (4 Tet Remix)
1st Runner Up: Notorious BIG - One More Chance (Remix)

NO MARC KINCHEN NO CREDIBILITY.

SERIOUSLY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBNGfWBQa88

Pal Joey remix of LIttle Fluffy Clouds

As much as I love MBV and Weatherall, the "Soon" remix isn't actually that great.

counterpoint: yes it is

what's great about it is that it sounds exactly like a brickie coming off a building site, taking some solid elements of two different tracks, and building a sturdy, no-nonsense dance-ready edifice in a coupel of hours