Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-vax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mit-vax!rpk
From: rpk@mit-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.records
Subject: Re: New Elvis Costello Single -- REMIX !!
Message-ID: <352@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 18:09:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.352
Posted: Mon Oct 24 18:09:12 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Oct-83 05:23:05 EDT
References: <1225@stolaf.UUCP>
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 22

Yes, it's only on import right now -- A remixed version of Let Them All Talk
with a B-side the ``Flirting Kind'' -- that's pretty good, too.  At this
rate, EC will have to coming out with Taking Liberties, Vol. II.

Note that CBS has for American release ``Everyday I Write the Book,'' with
two non-LP trax on the flip.  The A-side is extended, and also has an
instrumental.  It was engineered by famed New York mixmaster John
``Jellybean'' Benitez, who has also mutated singles by the T-Heads, Planet
Patrol, Afrika Bambaata, and New Order.  His remixes tend to be more
interesting (shorter, too) than the ``generic'' ones usually found
on 12-inch singles.  Most extended versions tend to go on MUCH TOO LONG and
don't bother to alter the instrumental balance or highlight the ``hooks.''

Another ``remixer'' worth looking for is Francios Kevorkian, who made
``Situation'' by Yaz sound better than the original (actually, it's shorter
that the original !) LP version.  He also did ``Two Hearts'' and ``New
Year's Day'' by U2 on a British Island 12" disk.

``Bob''-- 
``Bob''  Robert P. Krajewski      ARPA: RpK@MC
			     MIT Local: RpK@OZ
                                  UUCP: ...!genradbo!mit-eddie!mitvax!rpk