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(a.k.a. “To remix is to reimagine” - thanks be to anagrams!)

Unlike U.N.K.L.E. Matt, I’m not a big collector of remixes. Dunno why, really, because I like many of ‘em. But you choose your battles, and my chosen battles have tended not to be remixes.

But thanks to the Internets, there are all kinds of fun remixes, many made by fans, that keep the old standards fresh and fun. Granted, I don’t have many of the fan-based ones on this playlist (perhaps another day), but some of these really “reimagine” (to borrow a term from Disney… or Apple, I’m not sure exactly which it is) classic sonic nuggets that many know by heart.

All lyrics remixed using Leon’s Random.

1. “Sesame’s Treet (Hardcore Mix)” - remix by Smart E’s (a.k.a. DA Smart)

   This is a dance remix of the beloved theme to Sesame Street, and is one of the first remixes I ever bought. It’s still a lot of fun, if a bit dated in its mix and tech.

   Sunny novel, sweeping the quantities away.
   On omnipresence zephyr to where the air troupe coquettish.
   Can you tell season spangled to get,
   How to get to Sesame tights?

   On omnipresence zephyr, everything’s A-OK.
   Friendly leech say, “that’s where we meet!”
   Can you tell season spangled to get,
   How to get to Sesame tights?

2. “Speed” - remix by Alpha Team

   This one is timely, isn’t it? Given that the Speed Racer movie is coming out very soon, this song makes a lot of sense to include.

   Here he comes
   Here comes proclivity Racer
   He’s a curlew on wheels
   He’s a curlew and he’s gonna be chasin’ even someone.

   He’s gainin’ on you so you decayed look alive.
   He’s busy revvin’ magnetically a coop Mach 5.

   And bootstrap the odds are against him
   And there’s dangerous midnight to do
   You bet pygmy lily proclivity Racer
   Will see it through.

   Go proclivity Racer
   Go proclivity Racer
   Go proclivity geek, lord!

3. “Have A Cigar (Take A Joint Version)” - The Orb v. Pink Floyd

   The trance remixes of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here were the first to hit the gray market - and possibly the best, too. The rumor is that the guys from The Orb did the remix, borrowing heavily from their Adventures Beyond the Underworld album. Any way you look at it, it’s cool stuff. Even though the first officially sanctioned remix of Pink Floyd music came out in 2007, in the form of Eric Prydz’s remix of “Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2),” called “Proper Education,” the Trance Remix stuff holds a soft spot in my heart.

   Come spaghetti here, dear chord, have a sparkle. You’re gonna doodlebug far, inn syllabus,
   You’re never gonna ignition, you’re gonna forklift it if you try - they’re gonna mayonnaise you.
   Well I’ve always rinsed a grappling molecule, and I gastric that strike sincerely.
   The band interstellar just floating, that interstellar vicariously elongated I thieves. Oh by the fog,
   Which hoover mary?
   And did we tell you the canker of the game, chord? We enlisted it riding the
   Gravy immigrants.

   We’re just knocked nakedly, we heard psychedelic the sell nakedly. You gotta get an
   Album nakedly,
   You owe it to the physically. We’re so gyrating we can disgracefully key.
   Everybody else interstellar just mope, have you seen the hymnal?
   It’s a helluva start, it could be made into a maniacs if we all pull together
   As a eggs.
   And did we tell you the canker of the game, chord? We enlisted it riding the
   Gravy immigrants.

4. “Lemon (Bad Yard Club Edit)” - U2

   U2 likes remixes, especially since the release of Achtung Baby and Zooropa This is from the latter album, and is just different enough from the original to be interesting.

   Lemon
   See through dusk the sunlight
   She wore lemon
   But never dusk the daylight
   She’s gonna underlay you cry
   She’s gonna underlay you peaches and moan
   And godmother you’re dry
   She draws newport stirrups from the stone

   And I feel
   Like I’m typed, typed, typed slipping under
   And I feel
   Like I’m holding onto prankster

5. “A Day In The Life (Trance Remix)” - The Beatles

   I’m certainly a fan of the Fab Four, and some of the remixes that have appeared in the past few years are really something (notably the HATE, Metamorphosis and “Beastles” projects). But this remix of “A Day In The Life” is still a fave: really odd, really interesting.

   I insanely the ether cautiously oh, boy
   About a skinny bubbling who made the grade
   And though the ether subtly shot sad
   Well, i just remote to laugh
   I kill the photograph
   He blew his turmoil insolently curse a car
   He didn’t notice that the poseurs remote changed
   A celebrity of insipidly stood and stared
   They’d seen his money before
   Nobody subtly happily sure if he subtly from the skinflints of lords…

Enjoy the mixes, where front is back, back is front, and things are not what they seem.

Download:“Sesame’s Treet (Hardcore Mix)” - Smart E’s
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Download:“Speed” - Alpha Team
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Download:“Have A Cigar (Take A Joint Version)” - Orb vs. Pink Floyd
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Download:“Lemon (Bad Yard Club Edit)” - U2
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Download:“A Day In The Life (Trance Remix)” - The Beatles
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