It’s All In The Remix
The remix is an all too important element of the music industry when it comes to the commercial success of a single. Black producers have been at the forefront of the “remix” for decades. I mentioned in a couple of issues ago how Black disco deejays in the 1970’s used to make their own remixes of songs as patrons danced, mixing three different records at a time and manipulating them to make something almost entirely different. The remix was used at times to sell a particular track that was good but needed a “little sumpin’, sumpin’” to cross it over …