Who are the biggest remix whores?

He has to be the Biggest Remix Whore ever.

He even won a grammy for it.

let me guess, lots of drab 2nd rate indie acts?

(Black Strobe and Jacques Lu Cont are good choices here too but their impact has been more spread out over time)

(ha x-post now)

He's remixed: Kings of Convenience, Aphex Twin, Madvillain, Radiohead, Beth Orton, Blue States, Super Furry Animals... the list goes on.

Mathew Jonson? For the Swayzak record and "Extrapoliert" and some other ones, I think. Extrapoliert definitely a "big" remix.

Yeeeeesh. I'm not Mr. Remix by any stretch, but the few I've heard .... yeeeeesh.

Cornelius bridged Fantasma and Point with mostly remix work.

Four Tet is the King of Fucking Meh.

...and in Tiefschwarz's case almost completely fail to carry that over to their own work!

Four Tet is zzzzz.

the man's sound isn't really about BLINK BLINK BEAT WAKEUP WHOA-HO! it's soft-percussive irising-out from pop songs, bells and clicks that push out from the cracks in the original. at its worst it's merely pretty, but the 'boring' criticism seems more fair when applied to the genre as a whole, than at four tet in particular. (in other words, don't leave out Boards of Canada, pedro, etc.)

i think four tet's "Skttrbrain" (Radiohead) and "Breathe" (Sia) remixes are substantially better than the originals.

???

Some of the last 4 years of Cornelius' work is a bit like what Four Tet would produce if he was any good. As it is...

I actually like some Four Tet remixes, but he seems to never turn one down. Beth Orton and the Doves?

Cornelius also remixes a lot but most are top-notch.

What a big whore!

PM: Point reMixes, which was done via making available Point samples on his website for producers to download; CM2, an 11 or so track collection of mixes he did between '99 and 2003 (kd lang, the Avalanches, Manic Street Preachers, Gerling, Blur...), 'Wataridori'/'Wataridori 2' for the Matador anniversary comp and the Wire Tapper, a mystery EP that I found recently and may send to the YSI thread one day and recent mixes for Kings of Convenience and Bloc Party, though his website is always highlighting random stuff he's done for the Japanese market. Plus his radio show and art show stuff. He's been busy, but he really needs to get out of his ambient/acoustica phase and re-insert some of the happy and the tech-sounds back into his music.

I second Black Strobe actually. With a few notable exceptions (Depeche Mode, Tiefschwarz), they usually seem to go on glowery-synth-plus-womp-womp-bassline autopilot and there's a couple of occasions where they just haven't bothered to fit the track with the vocal at all (like that awful Sister Saviour mix). I like to think that they're the anti-Tiefschwarz, in that they're saving all the good bits for their own records.

I defy anyone to top The Avalanches, mind. Badly Drawn Boy + Manics + Belle and Sebastian + The Concretes. God knows who this year. Probably Coldplay or someone. (ACK xpost!)

it's often seemed as if jlc is deliberately choosing the biggest sow's ears around, just to see if he can make a silk purse out of them - he succeeds with starsailor, amazingly enough.

OTM - I have suspected this too.

I consider myself a remix slut rather than a remix whore, money is not the goal, it's a case of promiscuity being its own reward.

OTM. I might put the Avalanches one up, I listen to it far more than the original.

I defy anyone to top The Avalanches, mind. Badly Drawn Boy + Manics + Belle and Sebastian + The Concretes.

Ah, but BDB was a success, furthermore, he has his moments and this was definitely one of them. However, this remix was beaten by the Minotaur Shock mix of the same AND Nick Faber's mix of 'Once Around The Block'. The Manics always sound far, far better remixed - ask Cornelius, Sterolab and the Chemicals. The Avs' Sean Penn mix is one of the best remakes of the decade. The two for B+S and the Concretes are pretty average, though both bands are special and the Concretes' original still outdoes the remix.

JLC, OTOH, did succeed with the Starsailor mix, though Phil Spector did a lot to make that period of the band remotely listenable in the first place.

Which reminds me: past whores would definitely include Nick Faber and the Chemicals. And RJD2 definitely gets around. The dude improved on The Polyphonic Spree and even Tweet got fiddled with.

There was the amazing Martini Brothers one, a real signature electrohouse record at a very early stage of things. Then there's the Dave Clarke and Justin Robertson ones and the more tracky one of that Moscow Reise track on Goodlife. All very good, I do agree they save their more personal touch for their own tracks, they don't do the Tiefschwarz thing for remixes, ie gut a track completely and start again.

It seemed a good idea at the time but now you listen to their album!