Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

BFF’s Chatroom Fever

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

'BFF - Chat Room Fever'

Shortly after creating the WEAK13 DNA remix, another good friend and musician got curious and very supportive about my interest in music/sequencing/remixing.

It was a matter of days until he picked out a track from his (then) planned ‘Soft Tools, Vol. 2‘ album for my listening pleasure and I liked it… he promptly stated that he can let me have access to the original 24bit quality stems if I was interested in having a go at a remix.

Knowing that I did not need to attempt to extract the vocal and just use the stems made the whole thing seemingly easy – so I got to work!

Within no time at all, I had a draft version containing a few bars of music awaiting approval and after a day or so, I realised how difficult it is to work with organic style music and vocals with digitally sequenced tracker music.

I have been pretty happy with the resulting remix and the occasional slip in timing still gives the track its raw organic ‘Mossy Rock‘ feel but with a DP110 touch!

Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments section below!

WEAK13′s RNA Reconstruction

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Back in September 2009, I started to really like the idea of remixing tracks for others and decided to surprise a very good friend of mine by remixing one of his tracks.

WEAK13 creator Nick J Townsend was away on holiday so I ripped one of his tracks from a good old YouTube video and set about extracting his lyrics into smaller samples my music tracker could use.

The hardest part of remixing this track was finding ways to extract the lyrics from the rest of the music – and …yeah… that is a complicated process… there is no single application on a computer to do this for you.

After using many many different applications/plugins/techniques, I finally had the voice of Nick J Townsend (I now prefer to work with vocal stems – seriously!) and set about writing the remix.

People that know me and my previous musical creations will understand that I try to use a piano in every track and WEAK13′s DNA remix was no exception.

I have tried to stay close to the original track as much as I possibly could with this remix as to put a new spin on a classic WEAK13 masterpiece.

You can watch the original WEAK13 – DNA YouTube Video below!

Hello world!

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Welcome to Site 4 Fans. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

To kick things off on this blog, feel free to download and listen to a track I have written after being away from writing music for almost 10 years.

This track is called ‘Take Me Higher’ and was written to purely test out my music tracker software.

The vocal samples came from a sample CD set I purchaced about 12 years ago in the UK.