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Tom's Diner · Suzanne Vega / DNA
An a cappella album track became a global hit after two producers added a beat without permission. The label released the bootleg instead of suing.
Read →Notes on remix licensing, file formats, and the industry around interactive remixing.
Songs that became far more famous as a remix than the original, and the history behind each one. See the full series →
An a cappella album track became a global hit after two producers added a beat without permission. The label released the bootleg instead of suing.
Read →A 1990 flop became one of house music's defining records after StoneBridge stripped it to the vocal and added an iconic organ bassline.
Read →A single that barely charted in 1994 became a global top-three hit after Todd Terry's New York house remix.
Read →A quiet 2010 French folk track topped the charts in roughly twenty countries four years later, after a deep-house remix.
Read →A country album closer that was never a single became a number-one record across Europe after a tropical-house edit.
Read →A moody soul ballad became a pan-European number one and the biggest record of Imany's career after a deep-house remix.
Read →An indie tribute song that reached number 60 became a UK number one after a Fatboy Slim remix that mostly just sped it up.
Read →Intense, harpsichord-driven art-rock became a foundational house record after a remix kept one vocal line and invented the rest.
Read →An ambient album track that reached number 73 became one of the defining vocal-trance records of its era after a Tiësto remix.
Read →A slow, downbeat acoustic track became a global hit after a deep-house remix, the second dormant song Robin Schulz woke up.
Read →Notes on remix licensing, file formats, and the business around interactive remixing.
A first-of-its-kind licensing agreement covering recorded and publishing rights for AI-generated covers and remixes inside Spotify Premium, and what it leaves out for the rest of the industry.
Read →A 2008 Paris startup tried to make every song interactively remixable in a web player. They got a Jackson 5 deal. They lasted five years. Here is what they got right, and why 2026 is finally the moment.
Read →A 2015 file format with a clever, open design tried to make stems a standard product. It earned real but limited traction, the stores that sold it mostly moved on, and on-device AI is finishing the job.
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