Archive for October, 2007
Remix: In My Head
This is my second remix for Canterbury-based indie pop band Artist.
I actually really like the original track, and it became apparent to me early on that this was never going to work as a thumpitty dance track.
But I still wanted to make it faster. This involved a fair amount of sample chopping, particularly to make the guitar parts work at the new tempo. However, even though they’re mostly playing different things, nearly 90% of the guitars in the remix are the original parts - just a bit scrambled.
In the end, I took the song from Indie Pop to Emo Pop. I beg forgiveness.
Clip of the original track here:
Shiney new remix here:
Remix: Fetish
Fetish were sizzling hot South African band in the late 90’s. I met them at the time through my friendship with Brian Sepel and Malcolm Aberdein of Riverside Sound Studios. I was skinnier then and I had a lot more hair.
The band’s sound is unashamedly dark - at the time we called it moody rock. Now it’s the sort of thing my brother and I have fights over wether it’s emo. (ducks to avoid brick and bottles)
So anyway, I was trawling through my drives yesterday and I happened across a folder I have not seen in ages, full of really dodgy 8-bit samples, soundfonts (remember those?) and general crap that had been on the phenomenally massive 2GB hard drive I had back in 1997.
Feeling all nostalgic, I started playing things, and discovered I had the complete vox for Fetish’s “Never Enough”. It was an ancient remix project of mine which somehow never got finished. Which is a pity. So I dusted it off, threw away everything except the vocal and one guitar sample, and reworked it last night.
10 years late, but here it is. This is the chopped down “radio edit”; any DJ’s out there who want the DJ friendly version, get in touch.
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