Other forms: remixes
A remix is a track rebuilt from the same recorded parts. A club remix, remix the single, the remix is better.
It differs from a cover, which is a new performance — a remix uses the original recordings and rebalances or rearranges them. The practice grew out of Jamaican dub in the late 1960s and spread through disco. Note the re- meaning again.
1nounremixA track rebuilt from the same recorded parts.
“The DJ played a dance remix of an old love song.”
remix is a version.
Proto-Indo-European
*meyḱ-
Proto-West Germanic
*miskijan
Old English
*mixian
Middle English
mixen
English
mix
English, today
remix
Built from
From re- + mix. mix comes from Middle English mixen (attested in past tense as mixed, myxyd), from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-West Germanic miskijan, from Proto-West Germanic miskijan (“to mix”), from Proto-Indo-European miḱ-sḱé-ti, from meyǵ-, meyḱ- (“to mix”). Cognate with stq miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, miskēn (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misceō (“mix”), Ancient Greek μῑ́γνῡμῐ (“to mix”), cu мѣсити (“to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“to mix”), Sanskrit मिश्र (“mixed”), Persian آمیختن (“to mix”), Old English māsc (“mixture, mash”). More at mash.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA