How to revive an old classic!

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My latest project is to revive a classic soul song. I'm gonna do my best to make a upbeat disco song from "Hold on I'm coming - Sam & Dave". My intentions is to do what Room 5 did to Oliver Chethams classic disco track "Get Down Saturday Night". So far i've lined up the beats to fit a steady bpm, also i've increased the bpm from 107 to 128.

My question is, what is there else to do? Im thinking, one way to go is to layer kicks & baselines etc.. Another way is just trying to work with the song, and use multibandcompressors and such..

Any ideas?

Hear the difference..

Room 5 ft. Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZgnU5m27o&feature=kp


Oliver Cheatham - Get down Saturday Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUqcBwQjj4k


Sam & Dave - Hold on I'm coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWG9smW7IV4
 
Feels like I'm in the wrong place, does anyone know any good EDM forum?
 
I've tried this with a few tunes a couple of years ago. I did it with Jimi Hendrix's Cross Town Traffic. I was able to take parts of the song do some loops, it has a very consistent beat and most of the song was pretty repetitive. I tried it with a few other song as well. My biggest problem with some of these old classics was I liked them they way they were and couldn't really do much to make them better or to make them even new.

Probably your best bet is to take a song that is pretty good, and work with that. If you listen to the original vocals to "I've got the Power" the song itself (where the sample came from) really isn't that good, they just took that one part and built around it and really made a new song that was much more popular than the original. You might want to think in those terms as well.
 
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