Martijn Melenhorst wrote:
if you wanna buy it, or at least listen to it, not sure to hear any klf in this...
Yeah, exactly. So how can something like this be classified as a remix? I've never understood it. I guess it's one thing if it's on the single of the track being remixed, but something like this looks like an attempt to sell records by using the KLF name.
Ricardo Villalobos does not need to do that to sell records. He has a pretty large audience in the microhouse community, trust me. This is a series of records featuring people who WANTED to remix KLF records for whatever reason. As for it not sounding much like the original, that certainly doesn't take it from the realm of remixing at all. Aphex Twin, anyone??
Maybe he doesn't need to do that, but that doesn't make it a good remix. I make remixes for rock bands in my spare time, but I try to at least keep their chords in my synths to resemble the original song just a little, weeny little bit. So, in my personal opinion, this is not a remix at all.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but they're best held with the realization that they might hold no sway beyond one's own back yard (which, in this case, extends only to the way you like to conduct yourself behing the desk). And in this case, there are plently of people making remixes, buying them, playing them and owning the rights to the original material from which they were made who hold no such categorical definitions - and this has been the case for a long, long, time. The upshot of this thread is possibly that if familiarity is the sine qua non of your remix un-negotiables, then you should pass. Other than that, it's just so much bandwidth. jeff