Before we get into what we now consider a remix, we got to look at the avante-gaurde particularly Cage. There are some other "modern" composers who followed similiar ideas (but too much of this stuff would be boring).
I only mention Cage because it seems that modern remixers/bastard pop artists etc. seem to be influenced by him and his conterparts...and because what he did happened before "remixing" really got going I got to start with him. (Check out his philosophy on sound and silence).
Remix culture as we know it started with Dub...and if anybody thinks that somehow King Tubby (Prince Tubby's mentor) or Prince Tubby (the widely accepted inventors of Dub) had ever heard of John Cage or Gould or any one else making "modern" music you are crazy...Dub sides started as a way to fill space on the back of records, and progressed into an artform of its own.
enough of this bizness in part three of this series we look at the 80's and "megamixes"
but for now check this out
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