re mix muthafukas!

I’m not a fan of remixes. Any fool on youtube can add a club beat and some effects on fruity loops, then sample a line here or there and they have a remix. But I am glad Radiohead feels better about their music these days. I see something amazing coming out of all this, just have to be patient and let them perfect whatever it is they are doing. Looking forward to the Atoms for Peace album rumored to be near completion.

Then we won’t have to hear anymore about the remixes bitching? Please! Let’s get it over with then.

@pretentious electronica fan

Wow! A sane and rational perspective here on the comments about the remixes!?!? How refreshing…

@idiots are inevitable

LOL!

As much as these people complain about what Radiohead does I wonder why they even bother reading an article about them to begin with. Just go find a band that is doing what you want them to do if you need instant gratification with everything a band does.

AtEase, I have a confession to make, I’m secretly in love with –

First Amendment to the United States Constitution + Internet

ps. hey… at least it’s about the capital L, not H, right?

Whilst I don’t believe the remixes are particularly great, personally I’m glad radiohead are embracing the remix culture and club culture.

Mostly because I’ve been living in that bubble for the last 4 years now. Anyone who thinks electronic music or remixing is “Any fool adding a club beat and some effects on fruity loops, then sample a line here or there” then I worry about the sheer miopic nature of radiohead fans and their amazingly contradictory nature of pushing radiohead as one of the most forward thinking bands and then castigating them when they are doing something new (and for once something they enjoy)

I listen to all sorts of music and enjoy it and can see its worth, and after trying my hand at making ostgut ton influenced techno, breakbeat and other such stuff I can say it’s just as hard as playing a ‘real instrument’ when you get to the nitty gritty…And trust I’ve been in a lot of bands.

Sick of people just not accepting this new remix direction, b-sides are a dead art anyway. Move on.

I do love ateasers complete disregard and sheer lack of knowledge about the dance music scene. It’s comical.

Yeltsin – I never said that is all remixes were. I said that anyone can make a remix and most of them are ham-handed at best. In the earlier catalog I really liked the remixes of Climbing Up the Walls, Fila Brasilia and Remy Zero. I am saying this, if you are going to remix something do it proper, add to the music without going over the top and don’t detract from it, or don’t do it at all. I have remixed a few things myself and have several friends who DJ. I just don’t buy into the whole subculture of let’s remix everything to hell and drop some X..

I’m actually far-sighted, not near-sighted, but thanks for making fun of my condition /sarcasm

Apologies pretentious electronica fan, don’t take it as a personal attack. I agree with you in your clarification of the point. Anyone can make a remix, true, but look at the artists who are involved in this project- Shed, Modeselektor and others that I personally rate quite highly having seen them play in clubs. Some I rate not so highly (Jamie XX is a bit too twee for my liking) but that’s just preference.

Whilst the quality of the remixes aren’t particularly astounding, I’m glad that as they almost always have done, Radiohead are championing something that a lot of people who would listen to them ordinarily would perhaps not come across. Not all of them may like it, but it’s only a good thing to show people music they may otherwise have not listened to!

This is what I meant by the miopic nature of a lot of radiohead fans (and particularly, it seems, ateasers) as they have failed to realise that radiohead have been doing this kind of thing for over a decade and yet say ‘ewww I hate this new thing they are doing’

It’s not new, it’s just an evolution of their taste, it’s what they have always done and I don’t see why they are being slaughtered on here for it!

And these remixers have every right to do what they want with the tracks as radiohead have trusted them with the material as they are all very capable producers- I’m pretty certain they all know better than most of us what they’re doing!!

Sorry I’ve rambled a bit seeing as I agree with you in principle!

@ pretentious electronica fan: I think you mean the Zero 7 remix of Climbing Up the Walls, not Remy Zero.