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Chris Mitchell

Despite the rise of dance music in the 90s to the point where it’s arguably overtaken rock’n’roll as the defining sound of popular music, remixing is still something of a dirty word.

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It’s unsurprising given the way pedestrian remixes are continually used as filler on singles and even albums when an artist has run out of inspiration to produce anything new.

That’s not to say that there aren’t remixes which beat the original track hands down – Fatboy Slim’s chart-topping reworking of Cornershop’s “Brimful Of Asha” being a classic example – but they tend to be the sonic exception rather than the rule.

Even when remixes are entrusted to other artists, there’s no guarantee of quality, as exemplified by the uniformly awful mixes of Underworld’s floorfilling anthem “King Of Snake”, murdered by the likes of Dave Clarke, Slam and, er, Fatboy Slim.

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