If it's good enough, make it longer

Search the internet for your favourite current song and chances are you'll find 20 different remixes, a dub mix, a dance remix, a Russian polka mix, allsorts.

Back in the day, while the internet was still the preserve of university geeks too lazy to see if their coffee pot was empty, the remix was limited to your 12" version of the 7" single.

Some bands simply added a couple of filler tracks to the 12", tracks which otherwise wouldn't, and in some cases, shouldn't, have seen the light of day.

However, the standard for bands in the 80's was to release an extended mix. A three minute pop single could be doubled in length just by adding a bit of drum machine to the intro, a little extra to the musical interlude and trailing back into the beat for extra minute at the end.

Genius.

And I loved every single one.

There have already been three of this particular collection, 1 2 3 and the fourth gets a release today. If you can't find half a dozen tracks on here that doesn't make you remember school discos, first kisses and home taping, then you must have spent the 80's with our head in a bucket of sand.

Superb stuff.