S/D: One artist remixing the entirety of another artist's album

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Sorry if this has been done before, but I'm wondering what people would recommend (if anything) in the way of one artist remixing the entirety of another artist's album, examples being Mad Professor doing Massive Attack's 'Protection', or Nurse with Wound doing Sunn O))), or even the way the first Twilight Singers album seems to have been overhauled before release by Fila Brazilia.

Any good ones to recommend?

an inevitable disappointment (James Morrison), Monday, 2 July 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago)

I remember The Auteurs vs. µ-Ziq being pretty good, though from what I've gathered there isn't very much left of the Auteurs album in the remixes.

Tuomas, Monday, 2 July 2012 07:13 (twelve years ago)

Jamie XX's remix of that Gil Scott Heron album was pretty good.

Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, 2 July 2012 07:32 (twelve years ago)

Technically, David Bowie remixed Raw Power but that was before it was initially released so um yeah

StanM, Monday, 2 July 2012 07:35 (twelve years ago)

the first Twilight Singers album seems to have been overhauled before release by Fila Brazilia.

it was finished off by Dulli in collab with Fila Brazilia. I believe he ended up falling out with them like he'd already done with Smith and Chichester though! (the demos that are out there ought to predate any Fila involvment, for comparison's sake.)

it's not any one album's worth of material, but the Twin Freaks double LP that came from Freelance Hellraiser being given free rein on Paul McCartney's back catalogue is p good

¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Monday, 2 July 2012 07:49 (twelve years ago)

Does this count? It's a bit of a grey zone I suppose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Album

StanM, Monday, 2 July 2012 07:52 (twelve years ago)

Pentamerous Metamorhasis (sp?) basically owns this concept/thread.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Monday, 2 July 2012 08:14 (twelve years ago)

the latest 2 albums by cabaret voltaire (aka richard hh. kirk) were both remixes of complete albums.

kora! kora! kora! : the cabaret voltaire versions

the tivoli vs cabaret voltaire : national service rewind

mark e, Monday, 2 July 2012 08:19 (twelve years ago)

If we're talking about things outside of Jamaican music, I love Echodek, No Protection, We're New Here and the Global Communications/Chapterhouse one that, like WCC, I can't remember the exact title of.

The new remix of Toddla T's album by Ross Orton and Pipes isn't up to much sadly. Fine in its own right but it loses all the colour of the original record. It tends to work best when an already atmospheric record is made moreso or (as with Auteurs and Chapterhouse) the remix album is an entirely different entity and the original artist barely matters anymore.

Massive Attack were meant to be remixing OK Computer in its entirety but never got around to it - probably better in theory than it would have been in practice.

Tangentially, does anyone remember the 40-minute Sabres of Paradise remix of James's Jam-J? It's like a dub album extrapolated from a single song.

Get wolves (DL), Monday, 2 July 2012 10:20 (twelve years ago)

I believe Burial was meant to be remixing the latest Massive Attack album - but again this never happened

I am using your worlds, Monday, 2 July 2012 10:42 (twelve years ago)

He finished Paradise Circus, which sounded exactly how you'd expect, in a good way.

Get wolves (DL), Monday, 2 July 2012 10:50 (twelve years ago)

Tangentially, does anyone remember the 40-minute Sabres of Paradise remix of James's Jam-J? It's like a dub album extrapolated from a single song.

yup. i recently mentioned this in the 'fake dub' thread.

good stuff ..

mark e, Monday, 2 July 2012 10:57 (twelve years ago)

Coseph Jonrad (Bass Clef) did an entire series of these called the Paper Round Tapes. You might still be able to buy them, but if not he did do a free one half way though the series, which you can grab from here.

thatbear, Monday, 2 July 2012 11:12 (twelve years ago)

http://eltonversuspnau.com/

¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Monday, 2 July 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago)

Pentamerous Metamorhasis (sp?) basically owns this concept/thread.

Oh holy shit seconded/OTM/etc

Natalie Portmanteau (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 2 July 2012 13:44 (twelve years ago)

Scott Solter's remixes of John Vanderslice's Cellar Door are really remarkable dub-like structures, great stuff - they're here & free I think

perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 5 July 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

96:VR i.e. Thomas Brinkmann's Variations of Concept 1 96

EDB, Thursday, 5 July 2012 11:48 (twelve years ago)


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