The Origins of The Remix

Fredrick Royster
12 min readJan 29, 2021

I’ve been making dance music (don’t call it that horrible marketing term “EDM”) since 1995.

My love of dance music was passed down to me from my loving late brother Vernon. He was 12 years older than me, and he was constantly buying 45s (God, I’m old) and 12” singles of pop, rock, and R&B songs home, almost weekly.

My love of dance music grew even more when I started hanging out with my good…

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Fredrick Royster

Lapsed Web Designer*UI/UX Professional* Electronic Dance Music Aficionado * Chicagoland (except that stint in Croatia!)