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- #1 with a bullet: dance remixes. I don't know how hard it is to make a dance remix - but to a layman, though, it seems horribly easy and lazy: add a thumping beat, change up the rhythm a little bit, and there you go. At their best, remixes can turn some aspect of the original composition on its head to shed new light on the music, and, when they're good, dance remixes play with beat and rhythm in interesting ways. Too often, though, dance remixes seem like the product of compositional Auto-Tune.
- Close behind: heavy metal renditions. Look, it's great that you can shred, and the metal remixes have a higher hit/miss ratio than the dance tracks and take a bit more talent through the ability to play the instruments alone. It's just that the sound of the electric guitar is one that can easily get monotonous, and the remix approach is usually limited to "play the basic melody on my axe." Some artists can take the music beyond that, but I haven't found much that's won me over, and metal is just about everywhere in remixland nowadays.
- Giving a straight orchesrated remix except draaaaaaawing oooooout every note so your audience will recognize the weight and import of the peerless masterpiece you're arranging and just be overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of it all. FF6 remixers seem particularly guilty of this.
- Anything with lyrics. Anything. Song remixes seem engineered to bowl the audience over by how the remixer got a trained vocalist to perform their music. This isn't a big feat; there are a lot of good, underused trained vocalists out there. There are not, however, a lot of remixers who can write lyrics that actually scan and aren't embarrassing.
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- Close behind: heavy metal renditions. Look, it's great that you can shred, and the metal remixes have a higher hit/miss ratio than the dance tracks and take a bit more talent through the ability to play the instruments alone. It's just that the sound of the electric guitar is one that can easily get monotonous, and the remix approach is usually limited to "play the basic melody on my axe." Some artists can take the music beyond that, but I haven't found much that's won me over, and metal is just about everywhere in remixland nowadays.
- Giving a straight orchesrated remix except draaaaaaawing oooooout every note so your audience will recognize the weight and import of the peerless masterpiece you're arranging and just be overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of it all. FF6 remixers seem particularly guilty of this.
- Anything with lyrics. Anything. Song remixes seem engineered to bowl the audience over by how the remixer got a trained vocalist to perform their music. This isn't a big feat; there are a lot of good, underused trained vocalists out there. There are not, however, a lot of remixers who can write lyrics that actually scan and aren't embarrassing.
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