MICHAEL JACKSON vs PRODIGY remix

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Mixing and Mastering.
Ok here is the first remix i ever done. Since then i have been getting better and more creative with my remixes.
I am in the middle of producing an album of remixes of popular(ish) tunes.
By posting this I am not making any money nor am I letting people download the track, so I dont feel that this is that illegal. Before I make any moeny from my remixes I will be getting permision to use all the samples.
Enjoy

Song "REMIX"
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/teckno_music.htm
 
Da bump. Geez a comment. onya go. Its a funny remix. Total oppposite styles. Pop meets heavy industrial dance!!
 
ecktronic said:
Da bump. Geez a comment. onya go. Its a funny remix. Total oppposite styles. Pop meets heavy industrial dance!!
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At the risk of sounding toooo ignorant....shouldn't there be a sample of original to compare with? I can not remember exactly what the original sounded like.
What I listened to was funky, and I liked that.

And what is the purpose of doing remixes?

I would appreciate being enlightened. Thanks....True :)
 
okay, I see you're fishin' for comments here. :D
Well, the sound quality is good!
I wouldn't know what else to say here because I don't really understand the whole "remix" thing. :confused:
I don't mean that as an insult....I'm serious....I don't understand what you guys are doing. Are you grabbing a track off of a Michael Jackson CD and adding pieces of another song on top of it? I don't get it. Is this an emerging trend that I simply have not heard of before?
I've heard of remixes of songs but I thought that was when someone was commissioned by the artist in question to create a new version of his/her song.
No offense, I have just seen a couple of these remixes posted on here and I have been sort of puzzled by the concept.
Feel free to enlighten me so I might not sound so lost next time someone asks me about a remix :D



(edit: true-eurt just beat me to my question! :D )
 
Ecktronic, that is pretty cool. Way too short, as all the different sounds are building up, then it ends. But the sounds are awesome. Very good mix. Hope to hear a longer version soon.
Ed
 
At the risk of sounding toooo ignorant....shouldn't there be a sample of original to compare with? I can not remember exactly what the original sounded like.
What I listened to was funky, and I liked that.

And what is the purpose of doing remixes?

I would appreciate being enlightened.
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I feel like that often when listening to types of music different than what I'm involved with. Feels risky sometimes not knowing the lingo or the characteristic instrumentation of certain musical styles. But to the mixing clinic's credit, most members are pretty accepting of unconventional responses from the stylistically uninitiated like myself.

As far as the sound... at :25 when the low end kicks in it sounds excellent. Before that it's very midrange-y. I imagine that's intended as an effect but from a marketing angle I'd suggest starting out with that low end included as many listeners won't stay on for more than a few seconds if the sound is thin or unbalanced. Maybe better to use the midrange effect briefly at the midpoint in the arrangement. Hard to be artistic, I know, with such crass compromises. But it gets the audience to listen IMO, and maybe worth it for that.

Tim

Tim
 
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Timothy Lawler said:
I feel like that often when listening to types of music different than what I'm involved with. Feels risky sometimes not knowing the lingo or the characteristic instrumentation of certain musical styles. But to the mixing clinic's credit, most members are pretty accepting of unconventional responses from the stylistically uninitiated like myself.

Tim
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I will agree with this, and add, that it may be even better to have some people who are not of the same style as you, to listen. That way, they can pick at certain elements of things that stand out, and may go unnoticed to somebody else. Different perspective.
Ed
 
metalhead28 said:
Well, the sound quality is good!
(edit: true-eurt just beat me to my question! :D )
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Of course its good, he's just sampled music that people have put a lot of time, effort, money and commitment into. What this "remixer" has done requires no talent whatsoever.
metalhead28 said:
I wouldn't know what else to say here because I don't really understand the whole "remix" thing. :confused:
(edit: true-eurt just beat me to my question! :D )
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Its not a remix. A "remix" is the "remixers" interpretation of the original song, using key elements from the song.
I don't get it. Is this an emerging trend that I simply have not heard of before?
metalhead28 said:
I don't get it. Is this an emerging trend that I simply have not heard of before?
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Its known as "bootlegging." Its been going on for 5 or 6 years. I used to do it for fun (with better results)
metalhead28 said:
Geez a comment. onya go. Its a funny remix. Total oppposite styles. Pop meets heavy industrial dance!!
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You're not breaking new ground are you? Its been killed already.
The songs you have picked sound awful. Time stretch glitching can be clearly heard. Its all well and good using two songs that match in theory, but if they don't match in practise...dont bother.
To be honest I think you're wasting your time doing a whole album of this stuff,
Why not spend your efforts doing something more creative and original?
 
Geez a comment. onya go. Its a funny remix. Total oppposite styles. Pop meets heavy industrial dance!!
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^^^I would just like to point out that I did not say that, wingpen..... :D :D :D
 
metalhead28 said:
^^^I would just like to point out that I did not say that, wingpen..... :D :D :D
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Nor did I.....somebody's gotta take the blame!!! Now who said that??!! :mad: :D :D :D
 
sorry metalhead.

got a bit carried away with the quote button.

forgiveness please.
 
true-eurt said:
At the risk of sounding toooo ignorant....shouldn't there be a sample of original to compare with? I can not remember exactly what the original sounded like.
What I listened to was funky, and I liked that.

And what is the purpose of doing remixes?

I would appreciate being enlightened. Thanks....True :)
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No problem i have put up a small sample of the two songs i used.
Songs: "1" and "2"
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/teckno_music.htm

The purpose is for people to enjoy listening to them. If people know the songs then it is more enjoyable to listen to. I hope to clear all the samples and produce a whole album, i am nearly half way there all ready and all the tracks are of this standard roughly.

ps: i also used a sample from Dave Navvaros debut solo album. The drum bit in the middle of the song.
Cheers for the listen True-eurt.
 
metalhead28 said:
okay, I see you're fishin' for comments here. :D
Well, the sound quality is good!
I wouldn't know what else to say here because I don't really understand the whole "remix" thing. :confused:
I don't mean that as an insult....I'm serious....I don't understand what you guys are doing. Are you grabbing a track off of a Michael Jackson CD and adding pieces of another song on top of it? I don't get it. Is this an emerging trend that I simply have not heard of before?
I've heard of remixes of songs but I thought that was when someone was commissioned by the artist in question to create a new version of his/her song.
No offense, I have just seen a couple of these remixes posted on here and I have been sort of puzzled by the concept.
Feel free to enlighten me so I might not sound so lost next time someone asks me about a remix :D



(edit: true-eurt just beat me to my question! :D )
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Ok remixing in this sense is taking two (or maybe even three or four, but can be more difficult) popular tracks and mixing them together so they run in time with each other and work together as a groove etc. It is really hard to do and I only use the tracks as found on the CDs, not special seperate single tracks of the popoular mixes.
Check out "Too many DJs" by "Soulwax", they use a similar idea of remixing, but they got the seperate single multi tracks Im sure.

I would show you a couple of screen shots of my remixes, but i dont know how to change a print screen into a jpeg.
 
Timothy Lawler said:
I feel like that often when listening to types of music different than what I'm involved with. Feels risky sometimes not knowing the lingo or the characteristic instrumentation of certain musical styles. But to the mixing clinic's credit, most members are pretty accepting of unconventional responses from the stylistically uninitiated like myself.

As far as the sound... at :25 when the low end kicks in it sounds excellent. Before that it's very midrange-y. I imagine that's intended as an effect but from a marketing angle I'd suggest starting out with that low end included as many listeners won't stay on for more than a few seconds if the sound is thin or unbalanced. Maybe better to use the midrange effect briefly at the midpoint in the arrangement. Hard to be artistic, I know, with such crass compromises. But it gets the audience to listen IMO, and maybe worth it for that.

Tim

Tim
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Cheers for the listen and good words Tim. I didnt do any EQ or anything to the original tracks, i just added a little reverb on certain samples to make the mix run smoother.
Songs i used are: Michael Jackson "Jam" from album "Dangerous"
Prodigy "Their law" featuring pop will eat its self, from album "Music for the jilted generation"
Dave Navarro "Everything" from album "Trust no one"
 
Wingpen said:
Of course its good, he's just sampled music that people have put a lot of time, effort, money and commitment into. What this "remixer" has done requires no talent whatsoever.

Its not a remix. A "remix" is the "remixers" interpretation of the original song, using key elements from the song.
I don't get it. Is this an emerging trend that I simply have not heard of before?

Its known as "bootlegging." Its been going on for 5 or 6 years. I used to do it for fun (with better results)

You're not breaking new ground are you? Its been killed already.
The songs you have picked sound awful. Time stretch glitching can be clearly heard. Its all well and good using two songs that match in theory, but if they don't match in practise...dont bother.
To be honest I think you're wasting your time doing a whole album of this stuff,
Why not spend your efforts doing something more creative and original?
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Listen to yourself. No talent went into this??!! That is just really funny mate. You must not know much about remixing two or more songs of different genres together.
Listen to the original track by the Prodigy "Their law" from album "Music for the jilted generation" before saying that you can hear the time stretch. I hardly touched the time stretch on the tracks.

And yes i know this stuff has been going about for a while, but not at one point did i say or imply that this was "ground breaking stuff"!!
Soul wax managed to sell their album "Too many DJs", so why cant I??
It aint bootlegging beacuse I aint releasing it untill i clear all the samples! This is posted to this forum only, so not many other people will listen to it.
Please dont write a message in my thread again.

36 different samples were featured in this remix; fact.
 
Ecktronic, thanks for hooking me up to those samples.

I would say my final answer is....I really enjoy listening to your own creative tunes, sooooo much more than I did this. But hey, if you have fun doing this, I won't knock it!

Waiting for some more of your sounds to be put on. :)

TRUE
 
Wingpen said:
sorry Beethoven.
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I asked you kindly not to post in my thread Wingpen. I aint anywhere fukin close to Beethoven you prick. But I do have some talent and creativity.

Cheers Trueeurt. I will be posting my final sessions for my band Serotone soon. The last of the album is sonn going to be recorded. Thats almost a year it has taken to get this album ready!! Due to restrictions on getting free studio time.
 
I liked listening to the whole Remix much more. I could pick out more of what you used to mix. To me, that is half the fun of listening to this type of re-mix. Figuring out some of the elements that went into it. Deep, and nasty Kick drum. That is a cool sound. I like it. Very interesting song.
Ed
 
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