Why Two Versions Of Your Tunes Could Bring You Down...Or Up

I like the group Royksopp, especially the track Remind Me. I heard it thumping out of the TV on an advert...great tune.

I heard another one of theirs as well, So Easy. Again a great tune.

From these two tracks I bought the album. I searched high and low on the CD and found out that Remind Me, the version I heard was a remix (Someone Else's Radio Remix if you need to know).

I was slightly annoyed. The original is slow and so different. However many times I tried to listen to the original it just wasn't the same.

This track has got remixed a few times, people are going to hear it on popular media items like the TV, so why not include those remixes on the CD?

Its a goodwill gesture, if you get anyone to remix anything of yours, if its good, put it on your CD/ downloads. Your audience will love it, and the remixing artist will love it because they are getting extra exposure.

This was done a few times. One with Lenny Kravitz and "fly away", and the other with Babylon Zoo and "spaceman". Both using mixes of the track for TV jeans ads. Babylon Zoo was the worst. The main TV track was a storming stomping dance hit. Like a really good hit. The single that came out has 30 seconds of the TV track and the rest was a singing track. What they did was combine the instrumental on the CD single with the singing track. Both different tracks.

So please, any mixes that are used, use them all.