Album length remixes / edits?

Do these exist? Any examples?

Inspired by a brainwave / terrible idea I just had of doing an epic 60-minute edit of 'Buffalo Stance'. There seem to be so many elements to the track, not to mention various remixes and edits floating around, that I don't see how it would be so difficult. Whether it would work as a sustained experienced is another question.

Well, there's the Grace Jones "Slave to the Rhythm" obv.

THere was a whole thing a couple of years back of slowing things down to glacial pace with a computer program duplicating elements endlessly. Can't remember what it was called but seemed to be lots of links to youtube of various songs treated that way appearing.

I'm thinking you could start with just one very strung-out minimalist element of the track, like a degraded version of the beat or the bassline, then start coming in with warped, dubby elements of those 'DJ!' call outs and play off that for a while. Then pick apart the various synthlines, have those punch into the track every few bars while playing freestyle interpretations of the bassline, working through build-ups and breakdowns, holding off on introducing key sections of the track (like the vocals/chorus elements) until much later. Maybe it could work.

FSOL : Lifeforms - (Path 1-7)

The ep version was basically a 40 minute remix.

And several of their other eps were extended remixes of a single album track that would end up being a mini-album in its own right.

plenty of remixes/extended versions that were one *side* of an album

http://cdn.discogs.com/mgiUN_DR8EBHkMm5dJS3P800RCg=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc%28%29:format%28jpeg%29:mode_rgb%28%29:quality%2896%29/discogs-images/R-1910085-1251825214.jpeg.jpg

http://cdn.discogs.com/mgiUN_DR8EBHkMm5dJS3P800RCg=/fit-in/600x603/filters:strip_icc%28%29:format%28jpeg%29:mode_rgb%28%29:quality%2896%29/discogs-images/R-1910085-1251825214.jpeg.jpg

in terms of versions of the same track across one album, this monstrosity leaps to mind also

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Toms-Album-Suzanne-Vega/dp/B000002GJR

Apparently the Velvet Underground were talking about doing year long personal tracks for people in the mid 60s. Not sure how that was supposed to work, or if it did outside of a drug addled dream. could have something to do with John Cale being with Lamonte Young too.
But I read it in an interview they did at the time.
Not sure how it would have worked because there certainly wasn't the technology at the time and unless the band were going to stay with the customer, just can't see it.

thing is that with the FSOL eps all the tracks would flow into one another so sounded like a complete album as opposed a bunch of remixes tagged together.

(esp. the Lifeforms ep)

Cosmic Baby's "Fantasia" maxi-single is another example of that:

https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000105364447-dna5qu-t500x500.jpg

Technically, it has 6 different remixes of "Fantasia", but they flow smoothly into each other, forming one big suite.

Also, Banco de Gaia's "Last Train to Lhasa" album has an extra disc which includes a 36 minute remix of "Kincajou", originally a 6 minute track:

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2930584166_10.jpg

yeah, was just thinking that the ambient/house era went for this type of thing in a big way.
MLO/Wimbourne ep had massively long remixes, and then there is the 40 minute version of the blue room by the orb that only just qualified as a single release at the time by being a few seconds under 40 minutes.

I Think there are a lot of examples of album-length tracks or EPs made up of various remixes of the same track; but are there any incidents of, say Todd Terje or similar, doing a full-length edit of a pop song or something?

Yamatsuka Eye did two of these, the full length Vision Creation Newsun remix (Rebore Vol 0), and the full-length remix (?) of E2-E4

idea I just had of doing an epic 60-minute edit of 'Buffalo Stance'.

I think that's a wonderful idea.

I've had the same kind of thought about doing one for "Love Shack" – and I hate that song!

Two-minute percussive intro followed by Lambchoppy vocal crooning, "If you see, the painted sign, at the end of the road...."

hah! also, how do you hate love shack?

I know, right? Could be just the cure for me.

clinic's Free Reign was remixed by Daniel Lopatin and released as Free Reign II (actually his mixes were the original ones, i think)

i've always wanted to hear an album length version of "dream baby dream" by suicide.

Not quite what you're looking for, but the headshop boys did mixed edits of tracks from Graceland and and another of tracks centered (but not exclusively) on Rumours. Nguzunugu or whatever did a mix of remixes of "moments in love."

By "tracks" in that second one I also mean edits. So like six or seven edits make up each mix.

It's funny that edit in dance music almost always means making a song longer.

The Orcutt/Hoyos duo was also responsible for a previous posthumous release, Let's Build a Pussy, which emerged in a tiny edition not long after the band's 1997 demise. As with One Plus One, Orcutt provides the guiding hand here, but in a much odder way. He isolates a single second of Hoyos' singing from the song "Ice Cream Man", then stretches it into an hour-plus of abstract sound interrupted only by the ends of four vinyl sides. (Orcutt is credited with "Mouse," i.e., the computer kind, while Hoyos' contribution is listed as "Mouth.")

This might not count, but there's an Autechre track that could fit in here; I'm presuming the 58 minutes of Perlence Subrange 6-36 has some kind of remix or similar relationship to Perlence Subrange 3, and the other tracks prefixed Perlence on the same ep. However, it is Autechre...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7AGmLgpbmY

It's just a really, really slowed down version of one of the loops for 58 minutes. I've listened to it a couple times (it is very relaxing) and there are a few moments of "wait, was that there before?" but I think it's kind of stretching what "album-length" ought to mean

I got the idea to make a version of The Cure's Six Different Ways, in six different ways. Cover, disco version, dub version, etc. Mixed together like a Boredoms ep.