The remix album is a curious beast. On one hand, they can be considered an easy cash-in for an artist and their label, snapped up for the most part by eager, completist fans.
But done well, they can breathe a second lease of life into a record, reimagining tracks in new contexts and bringing the music to a new audience.
Many remix albums released in the ‘70s and ‘80s were viewed (cynically, perhaps) as opportunistic retools, designed to put songs on dancefloors that had no business being there in the first place.
There were a few exceptions; Human League’s Love And Dancing (released under the moniker The League Unlimited Orchestra) released in 1982 and Pet Shop Boys’ 1986 remix collection Disco were seen as heartfelt attempts at adding new
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