I have been doing a lot of remixing lately and thought it would be cool to have a page about it. Remixing has really changed a lot in the last few years and has become something really creative and interesting. It used to be a simple thing of making songs work on the radio or on the dance floor now its like totally re creating the song.
The first one I did last year was for a band called Midlake, they are a kind of post 70s rock band and I really like the singers voice. I took everything out and made the song entirely with my Moog. The impression I got of the song was very cold and frosty and snow like so I made all these little sequences all slightly out of time which played against each other... heres a clip>
The most recent one I did for Dntel, Jimmy did a remix for me and this was returning the favour. I chose this song because I really love Mias voice. I decided to keep it really simple, I cant do all that stuff that Jimmy does so well so I thought I would stick to what I do well .... heres a short clip>
I just finished two remixes, one for a new artist from London who we really love called Lettie and one for Juana Molina who is an artist I have loved for a few years now. For Lettie I thought I would do an upbeat poppy song and see if I could make it more poppy hahah I couldnt and all I did was jst utnr the whole thing upside down and make it very dark with lots of different and new rythmns which were inspired by one line in the song.
Juana's was really difficult, I didnt realise when I listened to it that it was in 7/4 time which isnt very instinctive to me. They make it sound so comfortable but it really was a struggle. I would find myself in the evenings counting 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 while watching tv weird ! I think I got it in the end though and Juana likes it so thats cool
If you would like me to do a remix for you please email me and we will try and work it out >
If you would like to have a go at remixing and you have a copy of Garageband on your Mac you can download the files for 4 of the songs from my album. I had originally set up this idea as a competition but it never happened so ignore all the stuff about competitions and have fun....
my young bride - midlake
you rock my boat - dntel