What is a remx?

Not remix, but great: Daft Punk - Discovery.

I disagree. There are many good covers (which really is the same thing as a remix in my book).

Try anything by Gregorian.

Do we count the various hundreds of A vs B remixes that seem to have slightly fizzled out recently? If so then surely credits have to go to the usual suspects, e.g. Eminem (The Real Slim Shady) vs Fatboy Slim (Rockafella Skank), The Black Album (not the Metallica one, obviously), probably even the Richard X Gary Numan/Adina Howard thing that the Sugababes redid.

Listen to any of the Scala ones. It's a girls choir and piano singing things like Engel. With or Without You (originally by U2) is beautiful.

I don't know who that is. But after a quick google, I think it's still safe to say that I prefer to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Scala) to the Beach Boys (Langley).

But those aren't even real songs...

Another one:

• Universal Hall Pass - Ring of Fire (She has such a pretty voice...)

Of course the Langley Schools Music Project record has a serious disadvantage with respect to being able to cover Red Hot Chilli Peppers songs in that it was recorded in the 1970s. Then sold only to parents of the children, it didn't make it to national distribution until "discovered" in 2001. They also do David Bowie, Paul McCartney, The Carpenters (yuck!), The Beatles, The Eagles and the Bay City Rollers among others.

Unless it's "I'm Afraid of Americans," I think we have pretty different musical tastes.

I so want to provide some previews, but I can't find them anywhere. The only real option I have is cutting and encoding some 30-second clips. But that's a somewhat decent amount of work.

Oh baby! Though, they don't look that terribly young.

Look for Weird Al's stuff, usually nice.
Check also Wyclef Jean

Yeah, but most of them suck (no, not all). And that's only game-related.

That's parodies not covers though.

Gosh, looks like I'm the only one who knows of any on this forum.

Hehe, my last post rimes badly with my sig. Of course there are some good ones, I just thought of all the non-techno -> techno conversions which seems to pop up everywhere. They play Crazy Frog in clubs now days, it really says a lot about what people are "supposed" to like.

Labeling all electronic music under techno shows great ignorance and lack of exposure to post early-90's electronic music.

What once was House (including subgenres like Dance),is these days called 'Electronica' by the marketing thugs. I guess they couldn't live with trying to sell music that was invented by gay people and had to coin a new name.

Yep. Definite lack of exposure here. Handbag (aka Eurodance) has been out of the picture for a decade now. Even Aqua. (good riddance!)

Usually the non-electronic->electronic conversions are pretty much crap, You can't polish a turd, as they say.

Some real good remixes (as in remixes that transform an originally good song into something extraordinarily great) are:
Madison Avenue - Everything You Need -> Mobin Master 12" Remix
Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar -> Hybrid's Time Traveller Mix & John '00' Fleming Remix
Juno Reactor - Pistolero -> Headrillaz 'Sandinista' Mix

For future reference, remember the basic classes of electronic music. The examples mentioned are not any definite official examples, they're what i think are something that display the qualities each genre represents.

House - dance, reggaeton, etc - stuff that makes you you just want to dance. stereotypical example: Faihtles - Insomnia
Trance - goa, psytrance, acid, etc - Music that makes you lose track of time, live the music and just dance. It's possible to be at a dance party where the party lasts 8 hours and the music doesn't stop for one split second, and you don't even notice it.
Sterotypical example: (regular) trance: Rank 1 - Beats at Rank-1 Dotcom goa/psy (the more druggier side of things): Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy
Breakbeat - R'nB, hip-hop, rap, breaks, etc - You all know what these are
Stereotypical example: Do i have to bother?
Jungle and its subgenres - Music that appeals to your basic instincts. Very rhythmic, contageous and primal.
Stereotypical example: Black Sun Empire - Firing Squad
Downbeat - Ambient, chill, etc - In essence, relaxed electronic music, and that's what this music is for - calming your pulse without having to resort to guitars. The difference between ambient and chill is that your mother might buy an ambient cd, chill usually comes as the last track on a trance album.
Stereotypical example: Agnelli & Nelson - Sidewalk Driller
Techno - Detroit, noise, etc - the roughest sibling of house and trance, this is music that is rough, violent and fear-inducing.
sterotypical example: Juno Reactor - Mutant Message
Hardcore - happy hardcore, gabber, etc - Stuff that has the sole purpose to make 40 000 dutch people go up and down at the same time for eight hours straight.
Sterotypical example: Critical Mass - Happy Generation