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.

Worked on it for about a week, evenings mostly. Threw in a lot of foreign spices from the likes of Daft Punk, Robert Armani, Dandy Warhols and even a Jarre-esque melody in the middle. The result is a bassheavy clubtrack. I never made a clubtrack this slow (122bpm) since I normally work between 132-140 and 165-175 depending the genre. Had a lot of fun working on this track, the sample pack was really inspiring. Too bad I only had time for one mix . Oh btw: Since May 4 is my Birthday -> happy birthday to me (yay!)

A deephouse, trance mix of the tune, entirely in 3/4 measure! One two three, one two three. Original base of the track conceived for another contest on another forum (Dutch Synthforum.nl), blended it together with vocal outtakes from this remixfight.