单词 | remix |
释义 | remixn. 1. Sound Recording. A new version of a recording in which the separate instrumental or vocal tracks are rebalanced or recombined; (now also) a reinterpretation or reworking, often quite radical, of an existing music recording, typically produced by altering the rhythm and instrumentation; a commercial release of such a recording. Cf. mix n.2 3b. ΚΠ 1969 Audio June 30/1 The expression ‘re-mix’ is a current variation of the earlier ‘re-recording’. 1984 Newsweek (Nexis) 18 June 100 This week Columbia will issue an exciting dance remix created by Arthur Baker. 1986 A. J. Wiener Beatles 31 An outtake of ‘Bad to Me’ and a remix of ‘Do You Want to Know a Secret’. 1996 Time Out 31 July 104/3 Remix albums are generally a pretty tawdry way to repromote old material. 2005 Rip & Burn Mar. 8/1 The recently reformed seminal post-punkers will release a double album..of remixes by bands influenced by the Gang of Four. 2. In extended use: a reworked version; a revamp, a remake. ΚΠ 1989 New Musical Express 25 Feb. 7 An essential buy, as is the re-mix (improved art-work/layout with added ingredients) of Vague. 1996 Sydney Morning Herald 1 Feb. 18/6 Purists will shudder..at the news that Demi Moore plans to produce a '90s remix of the multiple Oscar winner All About Eve. 2008 Sunday Times (Nexis) 21 Sept. (Culture section) 32 In the past few days, the duo have been working on a remix of the film Max Payne, based on a hit computer game. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). remixv. 1. transitive. To mix again (in various senses). Also reflexive in early use. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > again remix1613 reminglec1630 1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. lxxi, in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 292 Certainly she shall remix [L. remiscebitur] her selfe with her nature, and returne into her whole. 1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass i. xxvi Mix the glasse and powder with diligence, let them stand two hours, then remix them. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Clyssus, in Chymistry, is one of the Effects, or Productions of that Art; consisting of the most efficacious Principles of any Body, extracted, purify'd, and then re-mix'd. 1884 L. F. Allen New Amer. Farm Bk. 80 It may then be overhauled and re-mixed with more earth. 1939 Archit. Rev. 85 267 ‘Killing’ the cement by re-mixing new and old compo that has already started to set. 1966 M. LaCour & I. T. Lathrop Photo Technol. xv. 194/2 The colored grains were remixed and spread in a very thin layer on a glass plate. 1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) iii. 153/1 Gypsum plasters are intended for interior work only; they should not be used on permanently damp walls. They must not be remixed with water once they start to set. 2. transitive. Sound Recording. To create a new version of (a recording) by rebalancing or recombining the separate instrumental or vocal tracks; (now also) to reinterpret or rework (an existing music recording), typically by altering the rhythm or instrumentation, often in a radical way. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1967 db Dec. 15/1 He can revise or remix any of the tracks without destroying those that do not need further work. 1972 G. Gould Let. 8 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 173 She volunteered, however, to send a tape of a real live German recording in an appropriate tempo and suggested that I might wish to imitate same and remix accordingly. 1978 Oxf. Times 13 Jan. (City ed.) 15 The recording is remixed with various electronic effects and alterations. 1984 Christian Sci. Monitor (Electronic ed.) 4 Dec. 51 To make a ‘dub’ recording, you..edit out all the sound except the rhythm section. Then you remix this however you choose, adding bits and pieces of the other instrumental tracks, but leaving out the vocal. 2004 Time Out 31 Mar. 97/3 Remixed by New York's DFA production crew last year, its electro stomp sends punters wild. Derivatives reˈmixed adj. ΚΠ 1904 Treat. Ergot (Lloyd Brothers, Cincinnati) 5 Nor do the re-mixed products of the chemical manipulation of Ergot parallel the parent. 1973 New Musical Express 27 Jan. 54/6 Apart from the two singles (there's a remixed ‘Jean Genie’ too), there's ‘Watch That Man’, which is loud and heavy and you can dance to it. 2001 A. Bissett Boyracers 132 The world seeming to explode with lustful glances, glinting earrings, remixed house-tracks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1969v.1613 |
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