Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe concept of the remix album dates back to the 1980s, when record companies would slap together several “dance,” “club,” “house,” “street” or “funky fresh” remixes into full-length albums, creating a relatively low-overhead addition to the catalogs — and balance sheets — of artists ranging from Madonna and David Bowie to the Human League and Milli Vanilli.
Most of them were lame; some were good; a small handful, like Madonna’s “Immaculate Collection,” were great. In the ‘90s, the concept morphed its way into the mixtape world via collections like J.
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