was reading an article about Tom Moulton:
While P-Diddy Combs can legitimately talk about birthing the era of the hip-hop remix (his remix of Craig Mack's "Flava in Your Ear" had the same impact of Moulton's "Love is the Message" remix), Philadelphia Classics is a reminder that folks who held it down at Sigma Sound Studios three decades ago, were the one who truly invented the remix.
and i couldn't believe they actually compared P-Diddy's claim to Moulton's work, so i thought about it... and i concluded that "we DESTROYED the remix" would be more apt, or fairly "we CHANGED the remix", ie. before the Puffy era, a remix meant, most of the time, the same vocals as the original with a different beat... nowadays, it means the same beat, with WAY too many guest MC's... i won't deny, in the mid 90's, it was pretty cool to hear all your favorite rappers on one track, but that got beat into the ground pretty fast...
these days, a good reggaeton remix can save a bad song ("lean back"), but in general i think i really miss the "same vocals, different beat" remix days in hip hop...
While P-Diddy Combs can legitimately talk about birthing the era of the hip-hop remix (his remix of Craig Mack's "Flava in Your Ear" had the same impact of Moulton's "Love is the Message" remix), Philadelphia Classics is a reminder that folks who held it down at Sigma Sound Studios three decades ago, were the one who truly invented the remix.
and i couldn't believe they actually compared P-Diddy's claim to Moulton's work, so i thought about it... and i concluded that "we DESTROYED the remix" would be more apt, or fairly "we CHANGED the remix", ie. before the Puffy era, a remix meant, most of the time, the same vocals as the original with a different beat... nowadays, it means the same beat, with WAY too many guest MC's... i won't deny, in the mid 90's, it was pretty cool to hear all your favorite rappers on one track, but that got beat into the ground pretty fast...
these days, a good reggaeton remix can save a bad song ("lean back"), but in general i think i really miss the "same vocals, different beat" remix days in hip hop...