Morpheux said:
Just what we need more remixes of pop songs passing as dance music.Garbage.
Morpheux, I think I'm going to shock you (I know Brett - Dancerev889 will probably faint on the floor upon me saying this).....but here goes.
Dance remixes of pop tracks are necessary. 
Yeah, I just said that! But having said that, I have to think of the "casual" dance music fan....not the "core" like myself, yourself, d21 and others.
The reality is, the casual fan needs some sort of familiarity with the music somehow. They may not jump high and mighty to an Ercola, Nicola Fasano or a Kaskade being that those listeners may have never heard of them, but a dance remix of Beyoncé? That will work. And it's those pop remixes that can eventually hook those sometime listeners into a more edgy sound down the road with unfamiliar artists (in their mindset) that come out with slamming tracks on their own merit.
The main trick to those pop remixes is simple....they have to be its "own track".
In the past, a dance remix of a pop song might have been a sped up version of a track, but nothing unique about it. As of late though, the remixers have become more front and center and in a way given a carte blanché to re-interpret a track. "Single Ladies" by Beyoncé is perfect proof of that. In itself, a nice, cute, dancy R&B track. But what remixer Dave Audé did to it was
AMAZING! The beats per minute were sped up and the track was given a totally different flavor to the regular single. As of late, while I do like the Dave Audé remix of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face", it is actually Jody Den Broeder's interpretation of it that I'm just
FLOORED by! Perhaps it's the hypnotic element in the background but something about that remix just "kills" it ("kills" in a good way!). The Cahill remix of Chris Brown's "Forever" was another pop/R&B remix that was excellent as well. I also have to add the Karmatronic remix of Beyoncé's "If I Were A Boy" as well.
If future pop remixes can follow the lead of the songs mentioned above where it still is the "artists" track but the reinterpretation of it can sell as its own, then THAT'S what will get those casual listeners over to becoming full-fledged dance music fans and down the road more radio stations may consider a CDR format (contemporary dance radio).
From a core point of view, it may be deemed as a necessary "evil". But we have to get more involved somehow. So to that......bring it!!!
