Tag: remix
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Gay Marvine welcomes you to the Bath House
It seems that 2011 has been the year of the re-edit – yes re-edits have been around since the mid 80’s (another heyday) or even earlier as early DJ remixes from Greg Wilson and Larry Levan were mostly just tape re-edits. But the current taste for nu-disco and chillwave/frosty echoed 80’s sampling ambience has put…
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Copyright Criminals and the Funky Drummer
Copyright Criminals – the 2009 documentary have released a special DVD edition with extras from the likes of Clyde Stubblefield (the original Funky Drummer – although I dispute the ‘Most sampled drummer’ tag as Greg Coleman who did Amen break in the Winstons has been sampled in many more songs since 1989!). So to promote…
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RC 200: Do You Remember the First Time? Part 2 with Ian Fondue
So what’s do you think was the first mashup? It’s a simple question with a not so simple answer, as with the television or photography or even the humble light bulb it’s an evolution (control committee?) starting with the earliest turntablism of Shaeffer and radiotronics of Cage, and ending with Christina getting Stroked – but…
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Hit n’ Mix software – extract sounds from MP3s and WAVS
This is a new one, software called Hit n Mix which extracts sounds from MP3s or CDs for remix use – not tried it yet but it looks like it’s doing a similar thing to Melodyne (forms of spectral analysis?) but extracting multiple instruments from a track…I think we’ll see more tools like this and…
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Phoenix release complete multitrack of ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’
1901 and Lisztomania has not left my sets nor has Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix left my iPod since they were released…so the news that the French band Phoenix has released the entire multitracks for the whole album for your remixing pleasure is news to warm my heart (and hopefully yours too)!
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Kleptones Shits & Giggles*
Shits and Giggles is a new odds-and-ends compilation from The Kleptones, slightly surprising after the double-album blowout that was Uptime/Downtime, and while by it’s very intention it’s a mixed bag, there are several tracks of interest: Saturday White – Elton John’s Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting has been pretty well mashed, but not with Billy…