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Originally posted by theknife
What's the difference between a remix and a dub? And do artisits who's stuff gets remixed by other artisits have to give permission? The whole concept fascinates me coz I can't think of another art form where it is acceptable to alter, expand, dilute or otherwise modify the original work...I mean, imagine taking the Mona Lisa and adding some objects to the background?
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A damn good question and one I've always wanted to answer from the perspective of the 70's , 80's ideas of what it meant.
Back then - a remix meant getting the master tapes back out and literally *re-mixing* the track/album from the original multi-track master tapes so as to ideally give a better presentation of the performance. For example to reduce background noise. An example that comes to mind was the original release of Genesis's Lamb Lies down on Broadway which had terrible 'hum' on several tracks.
Now it has been reduced to what I see a wimpish way of copying other peoples work with some input of one's own.
Anyone care to comment ?
Graham