Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - First I tried to figure out the bpm of the loops. I got something around 115bpm that worked for me. I then wrote out the lyric loops to see what I could work with. After that I started to create new loops from the original loops by mutilating them in the 1st version of the freeware program TUAREG. I accidentally sent a two measure loop into Tuareg and it converted it into one measure by speeding it up to 230bpm and raising it an octave. This ended up being the metal sounding riff at the begining after going through some effects.Then I did a bunch of other stuff, but I only get one paragraph.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - I wanted to stay true to certain parts of the original but still put my own stamp on it. I only pulled the samples I needed for both verses. I put a big, fat fuzz effect on the bass track. I pulled a bunch of vocal samples into the beginning to sort of represent the chaotic nature of our personality. On the verses, I added the dirty and acoustic guitars and vox. The piano and drums are Bryan clean. The middle section is the same vox loop pitch shifted and panned different each time. I was trying to present it as layers of skin being peeled away to get to the next section, with the glockenspiel over Bryan’s piano loop, which was like the true inner self. And I kept thinking about Michael Jackson throughout the whole process.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - I listened to both the song and the samples repeatedly for a couple of days. I believe in finding the innate truth behind the music, and bringing that forward. I listened to the feeling and rhythm, letting the tempo become ingrained on my soul. And then I sped it all up twice as fast and sang about dicks.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - Remixing this song took me back to the early days of Polish Rhino, when it was a solo project and I would just download random wavs and try to contruct some kind of song out of them. The prospect of actually remixing a real song was quite exiting, and revived the feeling I had when I would finish one of those early songs and realise I actually created something new, even if it sounded terrible. After listening to the song, and seeing the loops I knew I had to do it.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - Every sound on this mix is taken from the original loops bar Johnny Cashpoint’s teutonic robotic toasting, which was meant as an affectionate pisstake of German techno band Scooter. “Hender Hoch” means “Hands Up”, or so we’re led to believe. As much as possible we tried to avoid listening to the original - and we think it shows.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - My remix features the bass guitar of fellow Tapegerm artist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells with strings by Jonas Stoltz. This is an ACID mix with some reverb and phase on the drums. Been trying to get someone to rap on this one before finalizing it for Tapegerm. You know you don’t want ME to rap.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - I enjoyed the loopz. I like the vocal trackz and the bazz linez alot. I used one of the bazz linez and changed it into a synth bazz line. Besides the vocal samplez - the rest of the music a wrote myself. I hope you all dig it.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - I went to sleep with the Reaktor manual under my pillow and this was in its place when I awoke. I like hypnotic word fragments, and I love gratuitous effects — kudos to the dub fairy!

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - While playing around with the loops at first I put some of them into AudioMulch and improvised a strange sequence of sounds. I used this as the introduction section, then created the rest of the track using Acid. My idea for the track was that out of the soup of sounds a real song should emerge over time as more recognizable elements came to the foreground. All sounds in this remix came from the original set of Blind Mime loops. The most challenging part here was making minute edits to the vocal lines to make them fit my modified rhythms.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - Rather than listen to the song and have my ears sullied by preconceptions of how the sounds should fit together, I instead decided to take the most general-purpose loops from the set and use them as part of a totally-unrelated song. I feel vaguely confident that this song, created entirely out of other peoples’ loops (in the spirit of the competition) is the only one like it in this collection.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - The Blind Mime vs. INXS.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - As far as I can remember, I took the tracks from ‘Skin Disguise’ when they were first offered to me on the site; and rearranged them as some other song. But then I realized I couldn’t write words for it, so I took a real bad poem I wrote a real long time ago and basically read it through this little box I call my “portable noise mic” (because I don’t know what to actually call it) and stuck it on top. Yep.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - I only used the samples provided.

Fight #0001 : The Blind Mime - His Skin Disguise - I downloaded the loops quite some time ago, had a mix started using just the instruments. The machine crashed & I lost it all. I downloaded again, started the same sort of mix, did not care for the direction it was going anymore. So I decided to just use the vox, wrote a Electronic piece using Tapegerm monthly quota loops & some others I created, & dropped in the vox, tweaked & tweaked & tweaked to make them fit. I liked part of Bryan’s voice being pitched up a couple of notches for that sort of nasal post punk type twang. Had two mixes but prefered the submitted mix to the other one & that’s that.