Queen - Radio Ga Ga (Irregular Disco Workers Edit)

Definitely a Queen favorite of mine, both in music og lyrics. Also my very first encounter with the band when it hit the charts in 1984.

Apparently this song was the result of drummer Roger Taylor playing with his new tech toys; a Roland Jupiter 8 and a Linn drum machine.
Irregular Disco Workers has replaced the trademark arpeggiator bassline with a slapbass (much like Camille Jones "The Creeps"), but it works surprisingly well. A little filter on Freddie's sparse vocals and a little extra kicks, snaps and cowbells. We love cowbells!
Nice!

Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night (Friction Re-edit/re-work)

Some songs stay fresh even after years. Corey Harts 1983 hit "Sunglasses at Night" is such one. Although it's implementing synths and drum machine it never gets taggy like other eighties hits in retrospect (...at least not in the verse - the bridge and the chorus are a bit taggy, Mr. Hart). It must be the simplicity of the track that does it.
This K.I.S.S. approach (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is also key in making a good re-edit, and german producer/DJ Friction knows his KISSes!
His re-edit starts out with a solo Oberheim DMX kick-part that I don't remember from the original. Then filtered synth and a little 808 percussion and we're off! 
The bridge gets a delay-treatment of the "s" in "she's deceiving me", and DJ Friction saves us the embarresement of the original bridge and takes us back to the verse instead. Fabulous!
To top things off, he adds a synth that pushes things a bit forward. (OK, I've got some rules here: "No new melody or elements must be added" -  read up on the rules in the "About This Blog" - but this really fits the track).
A+ Edit!

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Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night (Friction Re-edit/re-work) by DJ Friction

Eurythmics - Greetings from a dead man (Special Edit) by Belabouche

From the soundtrack 1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother) comes this forgotten gem; IMO some of Eurythmics best work - and still fresh sounding!
The original in itself is semi-instrumental, and by adding a little percussion, delay and a couple of bpms italian DJ/producer Belabouce takes this balearic beauty into its late twenties.
I do hope to see this on released properly very soon!

Eurythmics - Greetings from a dead man (Special Edit) by (((Belabouche)))

Rolling Stones - Under My Dub (Todd Terje Edit) a.k.a "Under My Thumb"

For now just a white label, but must be a matter of time before Decca, Virgin or whoever own the rights makes this an official release.
Tood Terje, for it is him once again, has really stretched this one to its limits. Just a touch of extra drums. The rest is send through effects, loops and filters and with a steady pace it clocks in at 5:36 (the original from the "Aftermath" album is 3:20, which was long for 1966)
Fantastic!

On The Grid (Copicat Re-edit) - Lime

Now, I'm was never a big fan of Mr. and Mrs. LePage clean euro-disco. But I was very much into the covers, which matched the airbrush style of my teenage room. Here I'm not talking about the covers with the official faces of Lime, Joy Dorris and Chris Marsh, but the likes of e.g. the album Lime 3 (1983).
That album includes "On The Grid" which is a full fledged apreggiator-driven electronic disco anthem.
Copicat re-edited it on his 2003 release "#02" and made the arrangement a little more varied.

That 12" also features an instrumental speed-down edit of Grace Jones "Pull Up To The Bumper" and my personal favorite Afro Cuban Band's "Something's Got To Give".

Of course a bootleg, so nowhere to be found on any streaming. Go buy it here: "On The Grid (Copicat re-edit) - Lime

Jefferson Starship - Miracles (Sunshine Jones Re-edit)

The first time I heard this melody, was on De La Souls "I am I Be" off their 1993 "Buhloone Mindstate" and it's been haunting me since. Actually, back then I already had the original "Miracles " by Jefferson Starship off their Red Octopus album, but it was not until this re-edit came out I went back and listened to the original from beginning to end. 
A beautiful original, but this re-edit does legitimate the re-edit genre. Here, the original is updated with respect.
Loop, dubs, delays and filtering - the works. The vocals are kept to a minimum just popping up a few times as forgotten memories of an echoing distant. Added snare and kick put it in a frame. Love it!

Go buy the Sunshine Jones edit at Treehousemuzique store 

Listen to the Sunshine Jones Re-edit: