I started off working on a different mix, but then I got way too easily distracted layering loops of the guitar line over itself and throwing on various ambient effects, and this was the result. I thought it kind of sounded like something you’d hear on one of those instrumental Sonic Youth EP’s, hence the title.

Euhm
Searched and found
Though it did me good
For the exercise
Sure could use some powerful high quality time stretch tool to speed up
and don’t loose original pitch
Real time
With envelope simulators
En so en so
sometimes you just can’t get it ritgh

I replaced all the music but kept the vocals. I kept some of the melody/rhythm from the original as a base reference point. I was tempted to cheat and have Erin record a new vocal track for me, free of bleed, but I’m only devious to think of that, not to actually do it.

I managed to use every single one of the source tracks in this song. I originally intended to do only samples from the loops, but I couldn’t resist adding piano and strings, I think you’ll be able to hear why. Other than that, I contructed this song by sampling and sequencing. This was my first attempt at creating a sampled song, all of my previous ones are synth. I really enjoyed working on this, and look forward to future remixes.

Slow, spacey, uses only sounds from the original song.

Made the actual structure in about a day and a half, but touching it up took about a week. Also, if you reverse the entire track you get some interesting results…