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11	A music album consisting entirely (or almost entirely) of [[RearrangeTheSong remixes of previously released songs]].
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13	Typically they're remixes of a single artist's music: either a compilation of tunes from across their discography, or focusing on a single album. (If the latter, the remix may be packaged with the original as a DistinctDoubleAlbum.) Most commonly, they invite a whole bunch of guest musicians and remixers to reimagine the songs--but if the original musician has experience with producing and mixing music, they may handle the remixing themselves.
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15	Another, less common, possibility is for a single remixer to compile their own remixes of other people's songs.
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17	Compare and contrast with CoverAlbum. For our purposes, a cover version is a complete re-recording of the song, while a remix uses at least part of the original recording. See also TheNotRemix for remixes intended to improve the audio quality of the album ''without'' changing the substance of the original songs; usually these are called "{{Remaster}}s".
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24	* Architecture in Helsinki: ''We Died, They Remixed'' is a remixed version of ''In Case We Die''.
25	* Music/{{Beck\|Musician}}: ''Guerolito'', made up of remixes from ''Music/{{Guero}}''.
26	* Music/{{Bjork}} has several:
27	** ''The Best Mixes from the Album Debut for All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title says]], is collection of remixes from ''Music/{{Debut}}''.
28	** ''Telegram'' collects remixes from ''Music/{{Post}}''.
29	** ''Army of Me: Remixes and Cover'' collects 17 different remixes of the song "Army of Me".
30	** ''Bastards'' collects remixes from ''Biophilia''.
31	* Music/BoEn's ''Pale Machine 2'' contains remixes of all the songs in ''Pale Machine'', as well as "Money Won't Pay" and "I'll Fall" from the ''Expansion Pack'' rerelease.
32	* Music/DavidBowie:
33	** ''Never Let Me Down 2018'' is a completely revamped version of his much-maligned 1987 album ''Music/NeverLetMeDown'', featuring a more organically-focused production style more in the vein of Bowie's typical oeuvre (compared to the ''[[UnintentionalPeriodPiece very]]'' [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece Eighties]] style of the original).
34	** In November 2020, to commemmorate its [[MilestoneCelebration 50th anniversary]], ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'' was [[https://theseconddisc.com/2020/09/08/oh-no-not-me-tony-visconti-remixes-david-bowies-the-man-who-sold-the-world-for-50th-anniversary-updated-with-order-links/ reissued]] under its WorkingTitle ''Metrobolist''. This release features new, substantially modified mixes of almost all the songs by original producer Tony Visconti; the sole exception is "After All", because Visconti feels he can't improve on the original mix.
35	* Chromatics' ''Faded Now'' is a remix album for ''Closer to Grey''.
36	* Music/DaftPunk: ''Daft Club'' contains remixes of songs from ''Music/{{Discovery\|DaftPunkAlbum}}'', and one song from ''Music/{{Homework}}''.
37	* Music/{{Deftones}}' ''Music/WhitePony'' received an UpdatedRerelease for its 20th anniversary in 2020 with a companion album titled 'Black Stallion'', featuring remixes of the entire album (with the exception of "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" from the white cover re-release).
38	* Music/FearFactory: ''Remanufacture -- Cloning Technology'', a remix of ''Demanufacture''.
39	* Music/FranzFerdinand's album ''Blood: Franz Ferdinand'' is all dub-inspired remixes of ''Tonight: Franz Ferdinand''.
40	* Music/TheFrontBottoms have the "Grandmother Series" of [=EPs=], ''Ann'' and ''Rose'', which are re-recordings of songs from their now hard to find self-published albums.
41	* Music/FrontlineAssembly's ''Fallout'' features remixes of nine songs from ''Artificial Soldier'', plus three new songs.
42	* Music/{{Gorillaz}}: ''Laika Come Home'', a dub and reggae style remix by Spacemonkeyz of the Gorillaz [[Music/GorillazAlbum self titled album]].
43	* Music/MichaelJackson: ''Blood on the Dance Floor: [=HIStory=] in the Mix'' contains eight remixes of tracks from ''[[Music/HistoryPastPresentAndFutureBookI [=HIStory=]]]'', plus five new songs.
44	* Music/{{Jamiroquai}}:
45	** ''1999 Remixes'' is a compilation with 13 remixes of just three songs from the ''Synkronized'' album: the songs "Canned Heat", "Planet Home" and "Supersonic".
46	** ''Different Sounds: The Remixes'' is an unofficial remix album made by fans which is a compilation of remixes of all Jamiroquai albums until 2002 (before ''Dynamite'') from single releases (all of them B-sides).
47	* Music/JoyElectric: ''Their Variables'' had guest artists remixing all the tracks from ''The Otherly Opus'', plus two original songs.
48	* Music/LinkinPark has two remix albums:
49	** ''Reanimation'', consisting of remixes of the entirity of ''Music/HybridTheory'' plus B-side tracks "High Voltage" and "My December" as well as six interludes.
50	** ''Recharged'', a remix of almost all the tracks from ''Living Things'', plus a collaboration single with the renowned DJ Steve Aoki and a remix of said song.
51	* Music/MassiveAttack: ''No Protection'' is a dub remix of their album ''Protection'' by Mad Professor, who gets an equal co-credit on it.
52	* Music/MindInABox:
53	** ''Revelations'' was followed by the ''Revelations Club Mixes'' EP.
54	** ''Black and White'' has the remix EP ''Shades of Gray'', which also includes the previously unreleased song "Fire and Lace".
55	* Music/MyBrightestDiamond:
56	** ''Tear It Down'' is remixes from ''Bring Me the Workhorse''.
57	** The four ''Shark Songs'' [=EPs=] are all remixes from ''A Thousand Shark's Teeth''.
58	* There is even an official ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' remix album titled ''DJ [=Pon-3=] Presents My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Remixed''. It contains remixes of songs from the show which look like they've all been done by the same person. The album was a kind of reaction on the deluge of show music remixes from the fandom (including several albums mostly or completely made of show remixes).
59	* Music/NewOrder: ''Complete Music'', a remixed and extended version of ''Music/MusicComplete''. Some tracks are just longer versions of the originals, while others sound significantly different.
60	* Music/NineInchNails:
61	** ''Fixed'' EP consists of remixes from the ''Music/{{Broken\|Album}}'' album.
62	** ''Further Down the Spiral'', a remix of ''Music/TheDownwardSpiral'' featuring numerous guest contributors.
63	** ''Things Falling Apart'', a remix of ''Music/TheFragile1999.''
64	** ''[=Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D=]'' (''Year Zero Remixed''), a remix of ''Music/YearZero''.
65	* Music/TheNotoriousBig: ''Duets: The Final Chapter''. The tracks are made from previous and/or unreleased recordings combined with verses from other rappers to form duets.
66	* [[WebVideo/FilthyFrank Pink Guy]]: ''Pink Season: The Prophecy'', an EP that consists of 4 remixes of tracks from the ''Pink Season'' mixtape plus one new song.
67	* Music/PizzicatoFive:
68	** ''Pizzicato Free Soul'' contains remixes from ''Sweet Pizzicato Five''.
69	** ''Happy End of You'' contains remixes from ''Happy End of the World''. [[note]]Except for one song from ''Romantique 96''[[/note]]
70	** ''Remixes 2000'' contains remixes from ''Pizzicato Five [=TM=]'' and its associated singles.
71	* Music/{{Radiohead}}: ''Music/TheKingOfLimbs'' was remixed by the same musicians who inspired the style of this same album and the results were released on the eight ''TKOL RMX'' singles: the ''TKOL RMX 1234567'' compilation regroups the first seven while the eighth remains a separated single.
72	* Music/SaintEtienne had their debut ''Foxbase Alpha'' remixed (or as they put it, "re-produced") by Richard X to create ''Foxbase Beta''.
73	* Music/{{Sophie}}'s album ''Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides'' was followed up with an ''Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides Non-Stop Remix Album''. It's mostly [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what the title suggests it is]], but while there is plenty of guest collaboration, it also features Sophie [[RearrangeTheSong remixing several of her own songs, some to the extent that they're almost entirely new and original tracks altogether.]]
74	* Music/TupacShakur:
75	** ''Nu-Mixx Klazzics'' takes songs from ''All Eyez On Me'' and gives them new backing tracks and new guest vocals.
76	** ''Nu-Mixx Klazzics 2'' has a similar concept though it also includes songs from ''The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory''.
77	* Music/UB40's ''Present Arms in Dub'' (1981) is a dub mix of ''Present Arms''.
78	* Music/{{Wire}}: ''The Drill'' consists entirely of remixes of one song, "The Drill", done by Wire themselves. Some are so thoroughly rearranged, they sound almost nothing like the original.
79	* Music/FrankZappa: When it came time to rerelease his back catalog on CD, [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion he digitally remixed (and in some cases, partially rerecorded) several of the albums]]. Allegedly the new instrumental parts were in response to some of the original band members suing Zappa for unpaid royalties. For a while, these were the only versions available, but fan outcry eventually convinced Zappa records to rerelease the original mixes.
80	** ''Music/CruisingWithRubenAndTheJets'' got new drums and bass tracks, in a very 80s NewWaveMusic style--which clashed with the {{Retraux}} {{Doowop}} style of the original. The original vinyl mix was eventually released on CD as ''Greasy Love Songs''.
81	** ''Music/HotRats:'' The initial CD version used the same tapes as the vinyl version, but drastically changed the overall sound by bringing certain instruments to the forefront and burying others in the mix. And "The Gumbo Variations" somehow got four minutes longer.
82	** ''Music/SleepDirt'', originally an instrumental album, had vocals by Thana Harris added for the CD version.
83	* TM Network released a 4-disc album filled with versions of "Get Wild", famous for its use in ''Manga/CityHunter'', titled ''GET WILD SONG MAFIA''. The first three discs cover various versions of the song released in the past and several live versions, with the last disc being a combination of remixes and covers. The album was acknowledged by ''Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords'' for "Most versions/remixes of one track on a top 100 CD album".
84	* Music/DuaLipa's ''Club Future Nostalgia'', a compilation of dance remixes of tracks from ''Future Nostalgia''.
85	* Music/{{Autechre}}'s ''Quaristice'' has two of these: the ''Versions'' disc included with the LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition, and the four-EP set collectively known as ''Quaristice Quadrange.ep.ae''.
86	* Bronski Beat's ''Hundreds & Thousands'' compiles alternate mixes of the singles "Smalltown Boy" and "Why?" and the album tracks "Heatwave" and "Junk" from ''The Age of Consent'', plus the previously promo-only tracks "Run From Love" and "Hard Rain". The cassette and CD editions add the 12" extended version of the "I Feel Love Medley"(featuring [[Music/SoftCell Marc Almond]]) and the [[BSide B-sides]] "Infatuation/Memories", "Close To The Edge", and "Cadillac Car".
87	* Music/{{Grimes}} has ''Music/MissAnthropocene (Rave Edition),'' consisting of all {{Techno}} remixes of songs from the album from the likes of Richie Hawtin, [=BloodPop=], and Modoskeletor, among others.
88	* This is a tradition of Music/{{HEALTH}} and their HEALTH::DISCO series. The Music/CrystalCastles remix of HEALTH's song "Crimewave" was the song that put the former on the map.
89	* Music/AliceGlass has a remix album of her [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled EP.]]
90	* Music/{{Kelela}} has these for ''Take Me Apart'' and ''Raven.'' There were remixes for the Hallucinogen EP, but they were included on the [[UpdatedReRelease deluxe edition.]]
91	* [[Music/OneHundredGecs 100 gecs]]' ''100 gecs and The Tree of Clues'' is a star-studded remix album with each song containing one or more features. They also released the stems to the original album so fans could make their own remixes.
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95	* Music/AfroCeltSoundSystem: ''Pod'' is a combination of older remixes by other musicians, and remixes that the Afro Celts themselves created specifically for this album.
96	* Music/TheBeatles: The soundtrack to ''Theatre/TheBeatlesLOVE'' by Creator/CirqueDuSoleil is made up of remixes of hits straight from the original studio material, supervised directly by original Beatles producer Sir George Martin and his son Giles.
97	* Music/DavidBowie: The 2018 BoxedSet ''Loving the Alien (1983-1988)'' includes an exclusive, finalized version of the scrapped compilation ''Dance'', containing various 12" mixes of Bowie's material during his tenure on Creator/EMIAmericaRecords. As the original tracklist was put together in 1985, the released version modifies the set to focus on all three albums from the EMI America years (''Music/LetsDance'', ''Music/{{Tonight}}'', and ''Music/NeverLetMeDown''), plus the singles Bowie recorded for ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''.
98	* Music/MariahCarey: ''The Remixes'', a DistinctDoubleAlbum with club mixes on disc 1 and hip hop mixes on disc 2.
99	* Music/JohnnyCash: ''Johnny Cash Remixed'', a tribute album with several artists remixing his songs.
100	* Music/MilesDavis: ''[[Music/{{Panthalassa}} Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974]]''. Bill Laswell re-edited and remixed several songs from Miles' fusion-era albums (which themselves had been heavily edited in the studio before release).
101	* The Enid: ''Arise and Shine''.
102	* Music/AFlockOfSeagulls: ''Greatest Hits Remixed'', released in 1999.
103	* Music/FrankieGoesToHollywood has ''Reload! Frankie: The Whole 12 Inches'' and ''The Club Mixes 2000'', a mixture of new and old mixes and a compilation of (mostly) new remixes commissioned just for the album, respectively. There's also ''Bang!'' and ''Twelve Inches'', though both include a couple of non-remix tracks.
104	* Music/InformationSociety have ''[=InSoc=] Recombinant'', which compiles remixes of select tracks from ''Information Society'' through ''Don't Be Afraid'', mainly by {{industrial}} bands.
105	* Music/MichaelJackson:
106	** ''The Original Soul of Michael Jackson'', consisting of 80s remixes of Jackson's late 60s-early 70s solo material.
107	** ''The Stripped Mixes'', consisting of stripped-down remixes of his Jackson 5 songs and very early solo career.
108	** ''The Remix Suite'' was a series of [=EPs=] (later compiled as an album) with electronic remixes of Jackson's early career material.
109	* Music/JeanMichelJarre jumped head-first into the dancefloor and remix craze of TheNineties.
110	** He had remixes made mostly from his already {{house\|Music}}-tinted 1993 album ''Chronologie''. Enough of them were made not only for a couple of mostly promotional maxi singles (which pop up at record fairs nonetheless), but also to combine some of them (and some remixes of earlier material) into the remix album ''Jarremix''. The original release had eleven tracks, but after one by Music/LaurentGarnier was removed, it eventually ended with ten tracks.
111	** Some four years later, ''Oxygène 7-13'' brought even more remixes with itself, enough for even more promotional maxi singles and a second remix album titled ''Odyssey Through O2'' which also came with a special copy of the [=ArKaos=] software named [=JArKaos=] so that people could generate their own dynamic visuals like at Jarre's recent concerts while listening to the remixes.
112	* Music/LArcEnCiel: Their special album ''P'UNK IS NOT DEAD'' is a compilation of punk remix versions of their own songs (where they pose as their [[FakeBand alter ego]] "P'UNK EN CIEL").
113	* Music/LimpBizkit: ''New Old Songs''.
114	* Music/{{Madonna}}: ''You Can Dance'' remixes songs from her first three albums, plus one new song.
115	* Music/{{Melvins}}' ''Chicken Switch'', with the twist that they gave remixers entire ''albums'' to work with for their respective tracks on the remix album, rather than individual songs. Only one track, "Queen (Electroclash Remix)", is a remix of one specific song, with the rest mainly being noise/sound collage pieces that sample various Melvins songs.
116	* Music/HarryNilsson's 1971 ''Aerial Pandemonium Ballet'' is one of the earliest examples. After the success of his album ''The Point'', the record label considered rereleasing Nilsson's out-of-print early albums ''Pandemonium Shadow Show'' and ''Aerial Ballet''. Nilsson felt those albums sounded outdated, so he remixed them and combined them into a single album. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Pandemonium_Ballet "It is a matter of intense debate among Nilsson fans whether this was a good idea."]]
117	* Music/NewOrder followed their GreatestHitsAlbum ''[=(the best of) NewOrder=]'' with the remix collection ''[=(the rest of) NewOrder)=]''. The vinyl edition contained all-new remixes, while the CD and cassette were expanded with a selection of previously released ones. A limited-edition version of the CD release tosses in a second disc dedicated entirely to remixes of "Blue Monday".
118	* Music/{{Pendulum\|Band}}: ''The Reworks''
119	* Music/PetShopBoys:
120	** ''Disco'' is a collection of extended dance mixes.
121	** ''Disco 2'' is another remix collection, this time [[FadingIntoTheNextSong arranged as a continuous megamix]].
122	** ''Disco 3'' contains remixes and a handful of new songs.
123	* Soda Stereo (Argentenian band from TheEighties) had ''Zona de Promesas'', a remixed GreatestHitsAlbum with the TitleTrack as the only new song.
124	* Music/{{Queen\|Band}}: Per the title, ''The 12" Collection'' (included as part of the 1992 BoxedSet ''Box of Tricks'') brought together various 12" versions of the band's songs from the 1980s, plus [[Music/ANightAtTheOpera "Bohemian Rhapsody"]] (which was only ever released as a 33 1/3 RPM 7"; the liner notes state that it was tossed in thanks to its nearly six-minute length).
125	* Music/TalkTalk:
126	** As a companion piece to the 1990 GreatestHitsAlbum ''Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk'', Creator/{{EMI}} released ''History Revisited: The Remixes'' a year later, collecting the remix singles previously released to promote the earlier album while tossing in a few newly-commissioned remixes as well. Notoriously, the members of Talk Talk were hugely incensed by the move, and successfully sued EMI for both false advertising and misuse of material (as the album was made without the band's involvement or consent), resulting in ''History Revisited'' being [[BuryYourArt permanently deleted]].
127	** Seven years after the ''History Revisited'' fiasco, EMI put out ''Asides Besides'', a DistinctDoubleAlbum where disc one contained previously released 12" mixes of the band's material (with the second disc containing demos, B-sides, a few extra remixes, and the 7" version of the non-album single "My Foolish Friend"). This compilation was released as a companion piece to the 1997 remasters of the band's first four albums, and ''didn't'' draw any legal trouble as a result of it only using archival material. The remix disc would later see standalone releases in 1999 and 2001 with the respective [[PostReleaseRetitle post-release retitles]] ''12 x 12 Original Remixes'' and ''Remixed''.
128	* Music/{{Twice}}: 2023's ''The Remixes'' contains remixes of almost all the English singles they released at that point[[labelnote:*]] excluding the cover of [[Music/TheJacksonFive "I Want You Back"]] but including the English versions of "More & More" and "I Can't Stop Me", which were released as promo singles[[/labelnote]], a new English version of "Alcohol-Free", and the first digital release of the English version of "Cry For Me" (which previously only appeared as CD-only bonus track on ''Taste of Love'').
129	* Music/{{Yes}} had ''Yes Remixes'' (2003) where Steve Howe's son Virgil (credited as "The Verge") did drum'n'bass-inspired mixes of the band's songs from 1970 to 1980.
130	* Blue Amazon have the remix CD ''Spearhead'' bundled with the German SpecialEdition of ''The Javelin'', which features exclusive remixes of their own singles "And Then The Rain Falls", "Four Seasons, and "No Other Love", as well as Music/SkunkAnansie's "Twisted" and Music/{{Placebo}}'s "Nancy Boy", plus the previously vinyl-only track "Trip To Heaven".
131	* Music/DeadOrAlive's ''Rip It Up'' is a continuous DJ mix of the 12" versions of singles from their two preceding albums.
132	* Laserdance's ''Ambiente'' features remixed versions of the {{ambient}} tracks from their previous albums alongside a few original songs.
133	* Music/GaryNuman's ''Random (02)'', released by Beggars Banquet and featuring house and techno remixes of songs he originally released when signed to that label. The subtitle is because it's meant as a companion piece to a Numan [[CoverAlbum tribute album]] titled ''Random''.
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137	* Music/AphexTwin's ''26 Mixes for Cash'' is mostly remixes done for other artists, with two tracks being alternative mixes of his own music and a couple more being his original contributions to the aforementioned ''Further Down the Spiral''.
138	* Creator/NeilCicierega's ''Music/MouthAlbums'' all consist of hilarious and slightly disturbing remixes and mash-ups, primarily of popular songs from the late 80s to the early 00s.
139	* K-Klass gathered their favourite remixes on the album ''Remix and Additional Production''.
140	* Music/GirlTalk has multiple albums of mash-up style remixes, combining the vocals of one song with the music from another, in unexpected ways.
141	* Music/PetShopBoys: ''Disco 4'', containing their remixes of songs by David Bowie, Madonna, The Killers, Rammstein, and others.
142	* Music/{{Soulwax}}: Despite its lengthy title, ''Most of the remixes we've made for other people over the years except for the one for Einstürzende Neubauten because we lost it and a few we didn't think sounded good enough or just didn't fit in length-wise, but including some that are hard to find because either people forgot about them or simply because they haven't been released yet, a few we really love, one we think is just ok, some we did for free, some we did for money, some for ourselves without permission and some for friends as swaps but never on time and always at our studio in Ghent'' is one of their most popular albums.
143	* The {{Vaporwave}} artist m a g g i e . w a v remixed the soundtrack to ''[[Toys/{{Bionicle}} Mata Nui Online Game]]'' on bandcamp.
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147	* ''[[Music/NowThatsWhatICallMusic NOW That's What I Call Music!]]'' has ''NOW That's What I Call Remix'', a compilation of popular remixes.
148	* The ''Verve Remixed'' album series, where a variety of electronic musicians remix jazz and soul standards from the Creator/VerveRecords back catalog.
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