The remix is now so ordinary that it barely registers as an idea. Every release arrives with alternate versions attached, every streaming profile carries a shadow discography of other people’s edits, and nobody thinks of it as a format at all. But the remix was not designed. It was the accidental byproduct of two separate [&hellip
Most scenes fight over who started them. Bristol spent the 1990s fighting over what to call the thing at all. The genre the wider world settled on, trip-hop, was rejected by nearly everyone who supposedly invented it. Massive Attack disliked it. Tricky disliked it. Portishead distanced themselves so firmly that they preferred to talk ab
