2010
Remix albums. Generally they’re not very good, especially when they’re remix albums for industrial bands. At their worst they’re basically an unlistenable stream of noise, trying hard to appear challenging to the listener, but coming across like a confused mess of pretentious guff. Nine Inch Nails first couple of forays into the remix business, in particular, were fucking awful.
More often remixers will simply take an existing track, speed it up, stick a trance drum beat underneath and pull the “generate club choon” lever. A couple of the tracks on AMERICAN PORN SONGS // REMIXED – the obviously titled remix album for 16Volt’s really rather good American Porn Songs – fall into this trap. Surprisingly though, a lot of the 22 tracks that make up the album actually take the source tracks and do some interesting things with them, accentuating underlying themes hinted at in the originals. Essentially they do what a remix album is meant to do.
Well, except for the Heroin Jazz remix of To Hell, one of my favourite tracks off the original album. It sounds like the Richard Cheese version of the song, putting a slow lounge backing underneath Eric’s vocals. It’s fucking bizarre.
Luckily To Hell also gets a good remix, alongside multiple versions of all the other tracks. Except Blessed, which no-one seems to have bothered with. Shame. Anyway, here’s the Everything Goes Cold remix of Alkali which pulls the trick of adding strings and such to the song. Bastards, it gets me every time.
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You can get American Porn Songs // Remixed from Amazon. It’s the best industrial remix album since Chemlab’s Rock Whore vs. Dance Floor. Yeah.
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