Remixes

Good thing I grew up in the 90's because to me that was the era where remixes were at its peak. Remember when you would go to your record store and either by the cassette single or single cd and you would have remixes of the song you liked? I did and in most cases the remixed version of the song turned out to be better than the original. A remix in today's climate means just adding some new vocals over the same beat and keeping the hook but back in the 80's and 90's a remix meant making the original song even hotter by changing up the beat, new verses and hook, and adding some effects. I had a discussion with a friend of mine that is a PD at a radio station and he told me that remixes like back in the day (which were 6 mins.+) wouldn't survive b/c of the short attention span of the frequent radio listener. Hopefully the art of inventing the true remix will rediscovered.