I feel your pain and agree with you all the way. I don't mind certain games/songs being "overmixed" in the sense that we never dictate to any artists what to arrange; in most cases, they pick what they like and what they're nostalgic for, and the results are creative.

"I think the fact that the majority of the remixes are techno/dance…" - Nope, not so fast. We're currently working on genre/mood/instrumentation tagging for the site, but even anecdotally, that's not true. :-D In the earliest days before home studio equipment and recording gear became more affordable, there was…