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albums that is
based on a very small sample size

depends if they are remixes of an album a la bjork,
or remixes done of different groups grouped together
on one album by the remixers

I love *band* and I love *remixer(four tet or somesuch)* so wow, imagine a combination of the two!!! <- my excited brain

Problem with them is that they often have some highlights/good bits but are almost always an incoherent mess.

Kicking a Dead Pig (MOgwai) is the closest I've yet come to finding a decent remix album.

is absolutely brilliant. Struggling to think of any others that I put on regular rotation though. They're the kind of thing you listen to once for the novelty and think "yeah that's kinda nice I guess" then never listen again.

i was reading trent reznor complaining about how most of the people he sends remixes to end up sending stuff back which is too different to the original. if the idea isn't to do something different with the track then what is?
do they actually make anybody any money? why do they get commissioned?

That's pretty bloody good in terms of a whole album being remixed.

such as 'Additional Production by Hybrid'

But remixes by various producers of the same band- agree- never heard a decent album like this

Not sure.

As that's mostly Soulwax mixing Soulwax. It's the best thing they ever did.

I really like the ISIS one for example.

And the King Midas Sound one is very tasty as well. Might even prefer it to the album at times. But then again it is rooted in the dub version culture which that album is all about.

I think it depends how far the remixers go from the source material.

Fixed by NIN (can't believe NIN were mentioned and this not)

It's one of the greatest albums ever, let alone a remix album.

See also:

Godflesh - Love and Hate in Dub
Mogwai - ...Dead Pig
Scorn - Ellipsis

In the vein of Echo Dek: a dub producer goes to town on a fairly dubby album, makes it dubbier. Having it all from one remixer makes it nice and consistent.

Greatest Misses.

Decent.

<seinfeld>following on from what's the deal with remix culture more bangin' seem equally useless.
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how do you feel about have you ever heard a good one? are remix albums killing music? safety wink?
they seem pretty pointless. the bjork thread... nobody ever likes them the bjork thread... outside of one or two tracks p'raps. the bjork thread... remixes which are significantly different to the original the bjork thread...seems and as such few ever hold any surprises the bjork thread.... the ones that are pretty similar to the originals but slightly the bjork thread...
em?
sorta beside the point
the bjork thread...

you always get 2 or 3 amazing remixes released independently then some one in PR decides it can be a single so they attach an album to it with a couple more rushed remixes from bands across a wide spectrum of appeal. As a result you get these 3 awesome remixes and a whole load of tacked on shit which bare little resemblance to the original or even worse just sound like the original put threw a filter.

I HATE REMIX albums, they've destroyed my interest in remix singles, which is a bad thing as the are often some great ones out there.

i.e. 'The Best Mixes from the Album Debut for All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels' is brilliant. I listen to that at least as often as I listen to Debut, for sure.

Intimacy not so much.

a good remix is one that flips the style/mood/tone of the original and gives the track a new life.
Sebastein Tellier- Sexuality and Kings of Convenience- Vs are fine examples of this.

managed to even improve A Forest

Probably wouldn't buy one. I like it when they're a free download or a bonus disc.

Health - Disco2 is superb though. I'd consider it among my favourite albums of 2010.

Four Tet - Remixes is also worth grabbing for the first disc, which is his remixes of other artists. The second disc (other artists remixing his work) is pretty dire.

when Beck was all over the place like a sick mess, remixing everything he could get his hands on. There must be a million Beck remixes out there, and I've never heard one that did't suck.

Grevious Angel's version of Dusk & Blackdown's Margins Music is soemthing else he remixes everything on it and remakes it as a sort of mix. And one thats allready been mentioned by King Midas Sound, thats just quality. I did enjoy the first Bloc Party one and the first HEALTH one at the time but going back to them they don't hold up that well really. Most of the time they don't work even when the artists involved are really good just like the Radiohead one the other year. I really like a load of those remixers and even like Radiohead but damn that was a load of arse and didn't do the artists involved any justice at all. Remixes of bands in general aren't the best really its rare one pops up thats any good let alone an albums worth.

for Multiply. there's some belters on there. Not as good as the original album but still great.

A lot fo the time the problem with remix albums is the dynamics of the original record. Indie bands don't suit remixes. At all. It's no accident that the best ones are from soul or dance musicians anyway. Well that and bootleg records like the Grey Album or Grateful Doom if they count...