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.”

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.

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.

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!

All sounds from the original loopset bar the synth bass. Flesh, flesh, flesh!

Puce really knows how to get an awesome guitar tone.

Puce in half-time.

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.

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.