Retro Remixed: Rare & Extended

1. Dance With Me [Paul Van Dyk Long Run] - Alphaville

2. Don't Go [Todd Terry Tee's Freeze Mix] - Yaz

3. Need You Tonight [Bug Bump Mix] - INXS

4. Promise [Koishii & Hush Do as the Romans Mix] - When in Rome

5. I Touch Roses [Markus Schulz Dark Rose Mix] - Book of Love

6. Wouldn't It Be Good [Hartman's Radio Mix] - Nik Kershaw

7. What Is Love [the Dba Mix-Hojo Vocal Version] - Howard Jones

8. Hey Little Girl [Infusion Mix] - Icehouse

9. Oh l'Amour [Matt Darey Mix] - Erasure

10. Shout [Beatchugger's Remix] - Tears for Fears

11. Nova Heart [Redanka Plugged Mix] - The Spoons

Retro Remixed: Rare & Extended,Various Artists,Hi-Bias Canada,Dance Collections,Dance Music,Pop,Pop/Rock,Synth Pop,V/a Compilations

Average customer rating: Would have been five stars had all the tracks been full-length versions

Retro Remixed 2: Rare & Refashioned Various Artists Manufacturer: Hi-Bias Canada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music | Ambient | Dance Pop | Disco | Drum & Bass | Electronica | Freestyle | Techno-House | Trance | Trip Hop General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Retro Remixed: Rare & Extended Retro Active 3 Retro: Active, Vol. 4 Rare & Remixed Retro: Active, Vol. 2 ASIN: B0009OORN8 Release Date: 2005-06-13

Tracks:

1. Living On Video (L.O.V. 2005 Version) - Trans-X
2. The Reflex (Come As You Are Mix) - Duran Duran
3. Just For One Day (Heroes) (Extended Version) - David Bowie
4. Blue Monday (2005 Remix) - New Order
5. Major Tom (Radio Club Remix) - Peter Schilling
6. She Drives Me Crazy (Roger Sanchez Radio Edit) - Fine Young Cannibals
7. Heart Of Glass (Diddy's Adorable Illusion Mix) - Blondie
8. Boy (Peter Rauhofer Club Mix) - Book Of Love
9. All Touch (Hatiras Remix) - Carole Pope
10. Der Kommissar (Jason Nevins Time Warp Blaster Mix) - Falco
11. International Rescue (Koishii & Hush Single Edit) - Fuzzbox
12. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Quivver Mix) - Culture Club

Customer Reviews:

Would have been five stars had all the tracks been full-length versions.......2006-09-02

As my title suggests this is an excellent compilation with some very refreshing remixes for people who appreciate BOTH the original versions and are open-minded enough to understand how remixes need to be constructed so that they can be beat-matched by DJ's and have the proper "big room" sound that works so well in clubs.

Needless to say a couple of the tunes are "radio edits" -- why on a remix compilation used by DJ's and other clubbers a label wouldn't include only 12" versions is beyond me. Regardless pick this CD up b/c virtually all of the tunes are amazing. In particular the Bowie remix has "live" crowd cheering effects which when played at a nightclub "trick the ear" of the dancefloor into thinking everyone around them is raving mad. Of course this then encourages the crowd to respond similarly creating even more of a powerful effect in the club, which is something all DJ's love to see...

Hopefully, the makers of this excellent remix series will refrain from "radio edits" in future compilations.

Average customer rating: Remixed, more like butchered! Reminisce : Retro Professor Vic Good mix of oldies song with new electronic sounds Worth the Price for 'Nova Heart' Alone

Retro Remixed: Rare & Extended Various Artists Manufacturer: Hi-Bias Canada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Retro Remixed 2: Rare & Refashioned Rare & Remixed Retro Active 3 Retro: Active, Vol. 4 Retro: Active, Vol. 2 ASIN: B0002MHDS8 Release Date: 2005-11-04

Tracks:

1. Dance With Me [Paul Van Dyk Long Run] - Alphaville
2. Don't Go [Todd Terry Tee's Freeze Mix] - Yaz
3. Need You Tonight [Bug Bump Mix] - INXS
4. Promise [Koishii & Hush Do as the Romans Mix] - When in Rome
5. I Touch Roses [Markus Schulz Dark Rose Mix] - Book of Love
6. Wouldn't It Be Good [Hartman's Radio Mix] - Nik Kershaw
7. What Is Love [the Dba Mix-Hojo Vocal Version] - Howard Jones
8. Hey Little Girl [Infusion Mix] - Icehouse
9. Oh l'Amour [Matt Darey Mix] - Erasure
10. Shout [Beatchugger's Remix] - Tears for Fears
11. Nova Heart [Redanka Plugged Mix] - The Spoons

Customer Reviews:

Remixed, more like butchered!.......2006-11-22

As someone who enjoys remixs, generally I find the more enjoyable than the original, this is one set of albums that totally and utterly fails to deliver. It is not only amaturish, but painfully disappointing, more so since I had to pay to find that out. It is in short a total and utter waste of money and the people who produced it should be forced to appologise for delivering this rubbish to an unsuspecting public. Tracks are not remixed as much as butchered, cut, sliced, stired and stappled back together by someone who is undoubtably hearing impared. Avoid this like the plague, and if you do decide to ignore this advice then let me be the first to say .... I told you so. Utter and total botch job, and yes the same goes for the 2nd album in this collection, it actually gets worse, and trust me thats really saying something!!!!

Reminisce : Retro .......2006-03-24

If you're looking for a blast from the past, and some flashbacks in 80's memory, while adding a twist of the present - this is the one for you.

Professor Vic.......2006-03-15

These remixes of great 1980s New Wave classics are disappointing. Unlike the Retroactive: Rare and Mixed series by the same publisher, these remixes are not 1980s remixes of 1980s songs, but are rather modern remixes of these old songs. Thus, you are not really getting a collection of 80s tunes but a collection of trance/house music loosely based on these great old numbers. Just not my cup of tea.

If you love 80s music and are looking for some rare tracks that bring you to back to the old days, this disc is probably not for you. Choose any of the great Retroactive: Rare and Remixed discs instead.

If you like the newer sound but also have some respect for music history, maybe this is up your alley.

Good mix of oldies song with new electronic sounds.......2006-03-10

This CD is a good mixed of oldies songs with new electronic sounds

Worth the Price for 'Nova Heart' Alone.......2005-08-11

I'm a big CD-single collector, and have many CDs from 'alternative' / 'new wave' bands.

However, I had never heard this 'Nova Heart' song before, and this Redanka mix is EXCELLENT.

After buying this CD, I went and bought the original Spoons CD, to hear the original version. It was a pretty good song originally, but this Redanka mix really takes the song to the next level.

If you collect rare music, you know that some CD-singles can cost 10 to 20 times the price of this CD, so buying a CD for one track isn't really that outlandish.

The other mixes on the disc are forgettable, in my opinion.

Buy it for Nova Heart Redanka mix, it's an excellent track.

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