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"初音ミク DANCE REMIX vol.1" (Hatsune Miku DANCE REMIX vol.1) is a compilation album containing one original song and twelve remixes of popular Vocaloid songs. It features mainly Hatsune Miku, but Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, and Megurine Luka are also included. An official track listing is located on the album site.
"Broken beat, dubstep, grime, Baltimore and Jersey Club are still going strong," says World Cafe correspondent John Morrison. "It's just been waves and waves of these rapidly evolving styles and scenes, and in the past few years, I've noticed a kind of, like, hyperfixation on remixing amongst young musicians."
Morrison says music is more fluid and ever-changing now than at any time in our history, and dance music is right in the center of that movement. Remixing has enabled DJs and producers to endlessly rearrange and alter original tracks.
"Tom would physically re-edit the tape recording of disco tunes and extend certain sections," Morrison says. "He would take 8 bars or 16 bars of a drum section, cut the tape with a razor and extend it."
"When you hear dance music today, a lot of it has this kind of expanding and contracting sound. It sounds like somebody's turning a volume knob up and down," he says. "That's a mixing technique called sidechain compression. If you hear that, the producer who did it was likely influenced by Kaytranada or maybe Flying Lotus."
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Rather than a simple compilation, the album contains two CDs in its French version, including the remixes of fifteen songs on the singer. These remixes, all made by Laurent Boutonnat and Thierry Rogen (for the latter, it was his last collaboration), have mostly been published previously as vinyl's B-sides of Mylne Farmer's singles, except "We'll Never Die" (Techno Remix) and "Libertine" (Carnal Sins Remix), made for the occasion, as the "Extended Dance Remix" of the new song "Que mon cœur lche". This song, whose video was directed by Luc Besson, was the only single released to promote the album, and the last vinyl of the singer.
An international version of the album was also released. It contains only ten remixes, including the remix of "My Soul Is Slashed", the English version of "Que mon cœur lche". Apart from the number of titles, the two covers also are distinguished by the color of the cover (black for the French version, white for the International).
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While there have been a lot of dance remixes of Justin Timberlake's singles, not many of them have been that great. And this is considering that everyone from Deep Dish to Tiesto have taken a crack at his songs (officially). For a performer that has spent the majority of his career DANCING, you'd think we'd have a fierce crop of EDM remixes of his hits.
Maybe 2013 is the year for him to twist these out; "Suit & Tie" already has a crop of proper remixes aligned, and with the EDM movement on the rise, there's no telling what other sounds we can hear (holding out hope for an official footwork remix of his next single). Until then, we take a look back at Justin Timberlake, remixed.
Aeroplane gets their slinky groove on with their official "Suit & Tie" remix, playing it straight while subtlely adding some house underneath. Probably plays it as straight as anyone could, and should be a hit for those of you who like to get on the floor and step it out.
Angello and Ingrosso turned in an almost unrecognizable remix of "My Love," one that clocks in at 10 minutes and features house kicks and a "driving" feel to it, mainly attributed to the guitar used in the tune. Timberlake's vocals (when present) are filtered heavily, but it doesn't matter - you'll get lost in this one pretty quickly.
Ta-ku's got his own lane, where he kind of occupies a bit of the trap lane without going too crazy with the 808s. This is a pretty mellow track, and adds a sly, electronic jazz flavor to the tune. Great version to turn up during a wine-sipping Sunday afternoon.
There's something to be said about getting to remix a track first. Flipping Justin's first single in years with Big Chocolate's "Blue Milk," we get those horn stabs turn a bit more lethal, and Justin's lyrics get turned into segments, while Jay-Z's entire verse is left in tact. It works for what it is, but it almost makes it feel like Hov ft. Timberlake. It's a fierce trap take regardless.
At the end of 2012, UTRECHT decided to flip Justin's first single in the vein of Disclosure, T.Williams, and the current crop of garage/house hybrid tunes. You have to admire his use of percussion and that beautiful melody he incorporated. And while there's not much in the way of full lyrics in this, the Timberlake used is more than enough.
The synths in "My Love" feel as if they were MADE for this kind of remix; RUF lifts them and builds around them, transforming it into a seductive dubstep workout. Timbaland's bounce is prevalent throughout the track, but he grinds out a proper, hypnotic masterpiece with this one. It might surprise you.
A trap rendition of Justin's ultimate kiss-off? Feels so necessary. B.Dolla let's the chorus build-up to an intense, sub-hugging drop, with a bit of the Rolling Stones thrown in for good measure. He considers this an homage to Timbaland, with the manipulating of those vocals over the main meat of the track illustrating that.
This is an interesting choice for a remix, and an atypical sound from what people normally expect from Four Tet. Aside from the kicks, the majority of the sounds thrown in, from low, clipped singing to Jay-Z's "uh," are snippets of the tune, building to a interesting peak. You need some leftfield that will still technically work on the floor, and Four Tet was the man for the job.
Basement Jaxx turned in a pretty no-nonsense remix of "Like I Love You," with a fuzzy, funky bassline and their signature vibrant house flavor. It's one of those cuts that will turn a club into a proper sweatbox. Kudos to them keeping the Pusha T verse where it was. It feels like N*E*R*D on HGH.
No diss to B.Dolla, but eSenTRIK and Scooter turned in a masterpiece of a "Cry Me A River" remix. We get a perfect balance of Timberlake's venom, then a heavy dose of turnup with those indecipherable vocals. A trap'd up Timbaland special.
Armand van Helden is a remix master, and while "SexyBack" was already a distorted slice of dirty heaven, Armand found a way to turn the distortion up to 12 with his dub, featuring LOUD bass, his echo'd freaking of the chorus, and overall hands-in-the-air appeal. Don't sleep on this one; it can turn into a danger zone when it drops.
We're surprised Julio's deep house take on Justin's latest wasn't used as an official single; we're also even more baffled at it being taken down from his SoundCloud. He found a great way of isolating Justin's vocal, really giving his words weight, then letting it spread its wings and fly on its own. Beautiful and infectious.
Brenmar brings the Baltimore club to the area, flipping Justin's duet with Beyonce into a banger. The best part of this is we still get the epicness of the original, just put through the ringer, and made better in the end. Get your bankhead bounce on.
Justice with the disco-tinged string assault. You have to love how Justin's great vocal has a dirty undertone in it, kind of like the gritty rhythm that this duo crafted for him. Sounding pretty, sounding nasty at the same damn time.
This one wins out of sheer WTF factor; sure, we've been up on Dillon's trap work - he's one of the fiercest out there. But properly screwing Justin's vocals over a this bottom-heavy instrumental? Fuck everything else, it just works. Snappy, punchy, and it just took him chopping up a few lines from the track and crafting his masterpiece. The fact that it's an offiicial remix is icing on the cake.
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You see, sometimes things just need a little shaking up! Especially if you want to get people out onto the dance floor. And country music has been reimagined and remixed to varying degrees of success ever since it began making its way into the clubs in the late 70s.
We absolutely LOVE the throwbacks here, at your favourite radio station Hits Radio, but sometimes a modern reworking just gives them that extra edge, to make them into a massive success in the charts and on the dancefloor.
In the last few years, we've had David Guetta giving Haddaway's 90s banger a revamp with Anne-Marie and Coi Leray, Switch Disco and Ella Henderson's 'React', sampling the 90s classic 'Children' by Robert Miles and another banger from David Guetta and Kim Petras in the shape of 'When We Were Young (The Logical Song)'.
We've also had Paul Russell's TikTok hit 'Lil Boo Thang' taking the world by storm, which samples The Emotion's 1977 hit 'Best of My Love', and Ella Henderson released 'Alibi' this year, which samples Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise', which in turn interpolates a Stevie Wonder song from 1976.
Because of all these amazing hits, we thought we'd we take a look at some of the 90s classics and other older songs that you'll know and love, that have been remixed, sampled, covered or interpolated, and also had huge success a second time (or even third time) round.
The Emotions released their hit 'Best of My Love' in 1977. The song featured on their fourth album, and was written by Maurice White and Al McKay of Earth, Wind & Fire. At the time of the song's release it went to Number 4 in the UK and Number 1 in the US.
Listen to 'Best of My Love' on YouTube.