Your Favourite Remix Albums/CDs

Mix Up - Patrick O'Hearn.

Awesome sound and mixes!

Most O' Hearn New Age fans despise it.

Remixes and remasters are two completely different things.

Check out remasters of Elton John's 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' and 'Madman Across the Water'. Both from Rocket Records back in '95(?). Cap Fan was remastered by the original engineer and it sounds great! The soundstage/image/instrument separation is outstanding and everything just sounds very natural and "right".

Synthfreek,

Did you ever play Myst (the game)- I listened to the links you gave and it immediately made me thing of the Myst soundtrack. Awesome sound.

1)Chapterhouse Retranslated By Global Communication - Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis is probably my favorite. This is not a traditional "remix" album at all though. An entire album by the band Chapterhouse(I never even heard the original album) is remixed into an ambient masterpiece by one of my favorites Global Communication. The idiot George Lucas had them pull it for a 5 second C3-PO sample. I mean come on...this thing sold like 1,000 copies. Here are a few examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw_qlqPOb0I&fmt=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_256A8A7sFQ&fmt=18

2)Remotion: The Global Communication Remix Album. This has 2 tracks from Blood Music but includes other very hard to find mixes and is also one of my favorites. They even remix a Jon Anderson(yes of YES) track into this gorgeous piece:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BxW_TKI1-M&fmt=18

3)The Orb-Auntie Aubrey's Excursion Beyond The Call Of Duty Volumes 1 & 2. 4 discs of extremely rare Orb remixes. Everyone from Erasure, Depeche Mode and Lisa Stansfield to Tangerine Dream, Yello and Wendy & Lisa. For Orb fans this may be way more upbeat than you'd imagine.

Thanks again Shadorne. I am going to order both of those remix compilations that you recommended from Amazon. Looking forward to hearing these remixes.

Try also Classic Alternatives 12" Rare Extended Retro Hits which has such a nice selection of rare extended mixes.

Any anything from Hi-Bias Records Inc. in Canada - these guys have audiophile ears - very nice mastering.

Thank you Shadorne for the info on the Duran Duran remix CD's. I am a casual fan of the band and did not know this album was out. I think I may have to purchase that one on CD.

If you are looking for sound quality then Duran Duran "Strange Behaviour" has all the Nile Rodgers & Co extended mixes. The dynamics are nearly on par with Sheffield Labs Drum track CD - so not for any systems that are "faint hearted". (I mean some very rare high quality recordings - this is not your usual slamming dance stuff - we are talking dynamic range here not just bada boom all the way through. Plenty of Bernie Edwards inspired bass riffs that come across so clean and richly timbred)

Here is an example - even in mp3 you can tell this is special.

A second for the Beatles' _Let It Be...Naked_.

John Prine - Souvenirs

Beatles - Love (X2)
Rickie Lee Jones - Naked Songs (OK not technically a remix)

Billy Idol-Vital Idol

Beatles-Love

Let it Be "Naked" - LP

Marilyn Manson- Remix & Repent.