Remix Fight! » 2005

MC Jack in The Box - like the guy said, you’re gonna eat lightning and you’re gonna crap thunder

Daddy James - My first mix with my new toys. Working with large samples is a drag. I can’t get my controller to work properly. I’m having workflow issues. I suck. These are the many problems of Daddy James.

fourstones - Let me know what you think. I’m here for you abusement. (sic)

Fight #0021: Bill Berry - The Problem From The Start - This mix contains a “Bhangra” type beat, that’s why its name is BB Mix. I created some loops for this mix. Adjusted tempo and yada yada yada….!

Fantastic Vamps - A bit of a departure for us, experimenting with different resources.

Bill Berry -

UnDesirable - I got a little carried away with the scratching, but it felt so good while I was doing it.

The Taco Conspiracy - since I’ve never really worked with a rap song before and was kind of worried about letting the vocals fall out of rhythm, I ended up using something of a Prefuse 73 kind of approach to them. I probably spent much more time than is healthy trying to manipulate that “bill berry” call out into existence.

Fight #0021: Bill Berry - The Problem From The Start - Worked on it for a few hours over a three day period. I really liked Parker’s verse, which inspired me to do a drum & bass version of it, since his rap sounds so MC-stylee. Also, I could simply double the original BPM from 88 to 176, which is a fast-but-still-okay speed for DnB tracks I guess. Anyway, because it was easy to double the BPM, I didn’t have to do much timestretching. Created a fairly standard drumtrack,with a HPF’d Amen on top and dropped a simple bassline under Parker’s vocals. This is when it started rockin’. However, the originally conceived bassline was 2 semitones out of tune with the original track, so I had to pitchshift everything up 2 semitones in order to get it right. Started to throw in more and more samples from the pack, filtered and effected the hell out of some of them. Added a nice layer of synthpads, structurized the theme and worked it out. Did some nice fill-in patterns with the drumtrack. Then proceeded to do final mixing. Equipment used: Elektron Machinedrum, Virus C, Roland XV-5050, Korg X2, Native Instruments Kontakt, a lotta Waves plugins, some standard Cubase plugin’s like Tonic filter and the Vocoder. Main mixer: Yamaha 01x. FX: Lexicon MPX550. Sequencer: Cubase. Finalizer: PSP Vintage Warmer.