Remixes that strongly deviate from the original

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Was reminded of this banger. Couldn’t be more different in tone than the original, but both are good. I hope this isn’t too broad of a subject. I guess it could be narrowed down to remixes that strongly deviate from the original where both rule? Idk.

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I’ve never managed to spot any element whatsoever of the original 30 second song in this 8 minute remix

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any Villalobos one

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this one bears a little more resemblance, but still

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His version of The Sinner in Me by Depeche Mode is mostly a woodblock beat and a sample that sounds like a car windscreen being wiped. It’s great, obviously.

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Two Lone Swordsmen’s version of Come Together might be my favourite, turns the original into a 15 minute dubbed out jam. Saw Vladimir Ivkovic finish a set by playing it in full a while back, mind-blowing stuff.

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The remix of Inbetween Days by The Cure from Mixed Up is very different from the original.

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I mean it’s this, right?

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AVH also responsible for this classic:

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Just listen to this album.

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Kevin Shields jazzing and noising up Primal Scream’s If They Move, Kill 'Em:

One of the best things him or the Scream ever touched imo

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Yeah

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Some faves

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So many Bjork remixes around and a lot that deviate from the originals. A few I like:

Underworld’s ‘take the vocals and make a new track’ approach to Human Behaviour

Violently Happy with Fluke

Dilinja’s dnb take on the slow and quiet Cover Me

The vocals of Isobel to the sound of Carcass works surprisingly well.

Omar Souleyman’s remix of Crystalline is not widely liked, I don’t think, but I enjoy it, and it definitely deviates from the original.

Forest Swords making Stonemilker a 45 minute epic

Fever Ray turning what was (for me) a fairly forgettable track on Utopia into something more foreboding an interesting (product of a remix swap in which Bjork had a crack at This Country Makes It Hard To Fuck.

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Fever Ray, is it?

Two remixes of the same song that strongly deviate from the original, is it?

Quite like this one, too

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Seefeel seems to be one of the few where he kept a lot of the original

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Jennifer Lopez kept doing this in the early 2000s

I’m Real

I’m Real remix

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Similarly this is a remix of ‘I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have’ from the band’s previous album. Andrew Innes instruction to Weatherall: “Just fuckin’ destroy it”.

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