Remix Fight!

Doctor P (R.h.oZ : The R.h.oZ remix)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:22:50 +0000

Doctor P (MC Jack in the Box : The Doctored P)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:22:43 +0000

Doctor P (John Ingram : With Apologies Mix)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:22:36 +0000

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.

Doctor P (DFF Sound System : The Medicated Dub mix)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:22:27 +0000

Medicated Dub mix

Doctor P (Rinkydink : ‘Is there a Doctor P in da house?’ mix)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:22:18 +0000

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.

Doctor P (UnDesirable : Horny Doctor Mix)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:22:08 +0000

Horny Doctor Mix

Doctor P (Artemis Strong : The Spring Inspiration)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:21:55 +0000

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.

Doctor P (Artemis Strong : Closing the Bar Down with Lux Divon)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:21:40 +0000

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.

Doctor P (Retroniks : Filter Automatiks remix)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:21:12 +0000

Retroniks remix

Doctor P (Rewind : Rewind remix)

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:20:37 +0000

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

Funk Construction Kit (MC Jack in the Box : Fly remix)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:28:43 +0000

I wasn’t going to include this since I used it to shill the fight over on the mixter but i figured what the hell. Bring up the rear with it. Featuring Jason Brock unknowingly doing falsetto.

Funk Construction Kit (Heuristics Inc. : Takin’ Out the Trash remix)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:28:36 +0000

I’ve always wanted to do a “rock instrumental” song in the style of Booker T. & the M.G.’s and such. I figured Victor’s excellent samples were my opportunity to make that a reality, so here it is. The title was suggested by my friend Mark. He had a movie playing in his head for this track.

Funk Construction Kit (DFF Sound System : fckdbyndcnstrctn remix)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:28:23 +0000

fckdbyndcnstrctn remix

Funk Construction Kit (Artemis Strong : H.P. Lovecraft remix)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:28:17 +0000

And here we go with the last of the mohicans…This one strays the farthest from the source, where I basically just kept the bpm and time signature (sort of) and used I think one of the original files to flesh it out. The rest is mostly tiny snippets of other CC stuff. I refrained from adding any soundbites from outside the CC network so I could maybe post this on Mixter soon. I did have some chopped vocals, but they really just overpowered the whole thing, made it seem overproduced. I’m really happy with this one, and I hope y’all get a kick out of it. It’s called “H.P. Lovecraft’s Theme from a Bonfire Party at a Pondside Cabin in the Mountains of New Hampshire whilst an Evil Spirit Watches from the Wooded Gloom”. I got the name because while listening I got a very strong visual (first time happened to me from listening to my own stuff) of my grandparents cabin in the NH Green Mountains at about Midnight on a balmy summer evening, a small group of teenagers drinking around a bonfire while some C’Thulu like creature watches from the coal-black shadows of the old-growth forest. Creeped me the fuck out at 3 am last night. Admin Note: I shortened the mix name for brevity sake - MCJ

Funk Construction Kit (Rewind : Saturated Fat remix)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:28:10 +0000

Source, FX and 808. Ritchie Hawtin it ain’t. I don’t really have an 808 (sniff!) so it’s samples, but we’re no purists here, right?

Funk Construction Kit (Artemis Strong : Our Television Set/A Dead-End Road)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:28:03 +0000

This is a very vanilla, very straightforward arrangement type deal with some droning stuff added. It’s actually where I continued with the first mix after dumping the entire concept and starting fresh, just carrying over one or two of the sounds I was creating for that one. The biggest add is the grey rainbow voc adds, which I was very happily surprised to find out timed with the beat almost perfect. I never got in on that fight and regretted it.

Funk Construction Kit (The BBF All Stars : Big Beautiful Funky Mix)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:27:55 +0000

Big Beautiful Funky Mix

Funk Construction Kit (Artemis Strong : Tubin)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:27:46 +0000

This first mix I send is also my first attempt at fourstones’ source. The piece began sounding a bit like the opening credits to a 70’s film (maybe an exploitation pic, or maybe something like John Cassavetes) so I treated it as such, adding bits of dialogue to spice it up. But, ultimatley, nothing really ever coalesced with this, and it’s a bit of a loose sonic goop that barely holds any shape. So, yeah, a bit of an abortion, but I thought it had enough charm for a fight.

Funk Construction Kit (teru : Minimally Exceptional Mix)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:27:39 +0000

Minimally Exceptional Mix

Funk Construction Kit (Retronics : Saturday Morning Mix)

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:27:31 +0000

Saturday Morning Mix