fourstones - Funk Construction Kit
And it's down to the final stretch and it's rewind, it's rewind, it's Rewind.
Fight #0016: Puce - The Pawnbroker's Stepdaughter - I just found this website about 2.5 hours ago & whipped a quick mix just in time! Only used the Vocals, all else is Reason Factory Soundbank.
ztutz - Mercifully short rock anthem treatment of original track. A long synth bone lead seemed like a particularly cheezy way to *cough* “enhance” the fabulous bass lines and kicks of the original.
Fantastic Vamps - Puce in half-time.
UnDesirable - Puce really knows how to get an awesome guitar tone.
Prank Monkey - All sounds from the original loopset bar the synth bass. Flesh, flesh, flesh!
Heuristics Inc. - Loop preparation in AudioMulch, arrangement in Acid. I decided to use two different tempos in this song, neither of which are in the original song. Fun!
DJ Redshirt - Pretty low recording volume, so you’ll have to turn it up a little. I put some deep bass hits in and couldnt get it to stop clipping till i lowered the overall track. It’s hard to remix a near perfect song, so i just went with a completly electro, get out and dance vibe. don’t normally make dancy stuff, but this has an edge.
Artemis Strong - Took me a long time to figure what I wanted to do with this one. The idea started with trying to get the loops sounding as cheesy as possible. My thinking ran something like: I wonder if I can make it sound like a jack-in-the-box! I kept that element in there, but as it started coming together, I struck upon the idea that my mix was actually coming from an out of tune AM station on a crappy transister radio. On top of that it’s been recorded on a beaten-up and scratched vinyl record. So, in the end, it is what it is: more playfullness from me.
MC Jack in The Box - Before starting this, I had only heard the original once before a few weeks earlier and couldn’t remember it at all, so it gave me pretty much a clean slate to work with. As is my usual routine, I stuck to only the original loopset with the exception of the drums, which I completely replaced with a new kit I made in reason. I really loved the opera track in particular, so much so that I decided to use it twice and reversed it the second time. Great loopset and awesome original.”
John Ingram - ran out of time on this one and never finished, but felt that the unfinished product might still garner a few appreciative nods. if not, then sod off.
fourstones - This is quite an impressive vocal performance and I wanted to do my best to live up to it in the arrangement. Orchestral samples are from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Violin Concerto in G Minor Op 80 Allegro molto” performed by the Johannesburg Philharmonic available on Magnatune under a Creative Commons license.
Fantastic Vamps - We can relate, we never sleep either.
D. Howse - This one was a real quicky. I only worked on it a few times, kind of threw it together then just wanted to get it done and over with. It’s a decent mix, not to fond of the ending I did though.
Fight #0015: Donkey T - Sleepless - Downtempo’ed, replaced drums and bass with junkyard equivalents, then added strings and granulated drips. Who said sleep deprivation should be pretty?
UnDesirable - I liked the quality of the vocals from the loopset alot. They made it easy to structure the song.
DeRon - Just your everyday twist of neohypnotica psychedelic eroticism ..::Headphones required::..
UnDesirable - When I got done with this remix I realized I only used three of Deron’s loops to make it.
Prank Monkey - Everything bar the vocals comes from the original loopset. Word.
Fight #0014: DeRon - When I Want Romance - Only $10 a minute.
John Ingram - stylistically its nothing new from me. lots of layered percussion and droning background ambience with building synth orchestrations and a bit of piano noodling.
Heuristics Inc. - Done in one evening after listening to the track for the first time, a little late. Wasn’t sure I was going to do a remix of this, but I started getting ideas and had to finish!
Future Boy - A slow build.
Steaming Dookies - The loops were really pro-sounding on this, so it took a bit to devolve them into the noise heard here. Kind of like an industrial RnB song, like if Beck and Trent had a love child… (ewww, sorry for THAT visual). Needs more lower register tones, but a pretty stinky mix, just the same. Thanks for listening!
Daddy James - Romance is big, but no romance is bliss.
Artemis Strong - This mix started out as minimal, expanded into some crazy drum-heavy thing, then somehow got shrunk back down to a tinkling sort of spacey piece. It actually fits closer to my original conception than I expected, and for that I’m happy. Still feels a bit flat, but on the whole I think I’m starting to get the hang of this.