R.h.oZ -

MC Jack in The Box - Sounds like I’m trying to get out of a drug test. Hopefully, not literally.

John Ingram - It’s been a while since the last time I did this… The full title of the mix is “With Apologies To The Saxophone Player, For The Obvious Reasons”. After completely excising the sax from the mix, I went back and had another listen. That’s when I determined that the sax sounded great solo and decided to lead off the whole mix with a sax solo intro that is more than a little reminiscent of the ’80s.

DFF Sound System -

Rinkydink - Mostly used the original tracks, just turned some of them around and added a few fx (and made it a wee wee bit quicker). I should do this more often.

UnDesirable - I performed a lot of unnecessary surgery on the source tracks.

Artemis Strong - And here’s number 2. This one went quick. Once I knew what kind of mix this’d be, without vocals, I felt free to throw out the old tempo and create my own. These two mixes, while the concepts were already in my head, were strengthened by the influence of a coupla new CDs I picked up the other day. White Rainbow’s “White Rainbow Box”- White Rainbow’s been someone I’ve been meaning to check out for a year after reading a real excellent review (and I mean the review itself was excellent, it was one of those rare music reviews that accomplished the difficult task of decribing a musician’s sound in three succinct paragraphs), and prompted me to buy the CD without even hearing the actual music. Well it blew me away. The other was Polmo Polpo’s “Like Hearts Swelling”- This was playing in the record store while I was searching for the album mentioned above and it totally gave me a friggin’ brain-boner. I thought it was maybe God Speed You, Black Emperor or one of their offshoots, but I guess it’s not. Strangely the album turned out to be strikingly similar in tone to the White Rainbow stuff, I guess a bit of synchronicity there. I only add the links cos I think they’re really great and cool and maybe you’d like to check them out. I suppose it can’t hurt to mention that I initially went in to pick up the new Nick Cave (I ididn’t even realize he had a new thing out since Grinderman till I read it was like no. 5 in the charts here in Portland) and the sorta new The Jarvis Cocker Album and I will go on record as saying those are really terrific albums as well. Okay, and I re-bought Cat Steven’s Greatest Hits, and that too is swell and should be listened to at least once a year. Enough of my picks of Spring ‘08. Peace, Artemis.

Artemis Strong - Great loops to work with, although at first I was daunted by their seeming complexity, but when I got them boiled down to bits of manageable size it became real easy to mix n’ match. The first mix I be sending you is entitled “Closing the Bar Down with Lux Divon”, it was (not really) recorded live at a seedy little dive, performed to a handful of drunk patrons at 2 in the morning.

Retroniks - Had a lot of fun with this one!

Rewind - To be played late at night “in da club”. Be warned, it’s pretty long. Source + some extra beats.