what i did for this mix was take the drums out almost entirely, re-filter some of the guitars through extra distortion, re-use the first verse 2 times and make most of the backing tracks out of just the guitar loops and the vocals. there was this little “warmup” sound he included that sounded great looped and i went with that. lot of fun to make this one, kicked it out in about 2 hours. the sample at the beginning is from some random ilovebees.com WAV file. also : pitch bend is your friend.

this time around i stayed as true to the original loopset as possible, but i changed the song’s identity completely… instead of a mopey song, it’s now a banging dance track. i sped up everything to 120 BPMs and rocked the synth lines pretty hard, as well as playing around with the various (and multiple) violin tracks. the only snatches of lyrics near the end are just for a teaser…

i know the GWBush fight was months ago, but Lanark’s song really made me think of putting W’s voice on top of it. so now, most of the original loopset plus a rolling marching band drum plus the “Mission Accomplished” speech = this mix.

stripped down, naked and crying in the middle of your living room at 3am after the love of your life left in a taxi, heading downtown. you softly sing to yourself, something about blueberries.

take the trippiest parts of the song, fuck them up horribly, mix them in a blender and add after school special dialogue about the dangers of marijuana. you now have Colvig’s “Don’t Do Drugs” mix. serves four.

Yeah. I didn’t quite know what to do with this, so i fired up the turntables and did some crossfadin’. Tried to bring back some oldschool hip-hop flava, jangly beat and all.