Like Beat writers who composed their work by shredding and reassembling scraps of writing, Basquiat used similar cut-up techniques to remix his materials.
Any music that's made electronically and is made with a kind of experimental purpose, whether that's in hip-hop or electronic music, its beginnings, in many ways, was the 12-inch remix.
But the dilemma with distribution remained: either cut the song down for the radio, split it across two sides, or squeeze the 5 plus minute remix on one side of the single, compromising the quality of audio.