Originally Posted by: perspexorange 
Oh, and yeah, the terrible remixing certainly started around then. However, I would bring it forward two singles.
Those Sly and Robbie remixes for RIAD were just the pits.
It’s funny, but at that point in New Order’s history, we had very little inkling about how bad the remixing was going to get (both in quality and quantity).
‘Regret’ wasn’t served with particularly good remixes (the New Order one and the Fire Island one being reasonable, but the rest being pretty poor), but we really had no idea that the shitstorm of terrible remixes was just around the corner.
I remember that, at the time, I really couldn’t believe that all the mixes on that second RIAD CD were so bad. In fact, I think I thought my CD was faulty, with the same remix being repeated throughout the disc.
to me, most of the music complete mixes were just as terrible and bad
as those mixes.
i actually liked a lot of the techno versions of blue monday 95,
and those on the rest of new order, because i liked the mixers,
and their styles, and their takes on the songs, which sometimes
didn't sound like the originals.
the problem with the tons or current remixes, is they are all
very pre-programmed with very little thought or creativity.
and half of them are dubs or instrumentals, which aren't that great.
maybe it was because the source material songs weren't that good
in the first place, sometimes a remix could save them.
i think the extended mixes were more than enough for those songs,
without having to make 10 more of each one.
looking back, they might have seemed interesting or had promise
at the time, but haven't aged well, haven't listened to them in years now.
unlike those from earlier eras.
later
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