Just wrapped up a few (3) new remixes of the latest Secret Mixter project which just took place over on ccmixter. I was only supposed to do one, but I ended up doing 2 more to make sure everyone that submitted something got something back.
The first (my original assignment) mix was for onlymeith, whose work I really enjoy. I decided to take 2 of his piano tracks and work them together, although they had a pretty big difference in bpm. I arranged it so that one piano track was the verse foundation (and repeated it) while the other acted as a bridge. I also had the beats drop out during the bridge section to de-emphasize the difference in bpm. then, to fill out the arrangement, I decided to create a “virtual conversation” between KCentric and Suzi Q. Smith, 2 powerful vocal contributors. The result is “Not Quite Only Meith”
For the second mix, I mashed up wellman, colab, spinning merkaba, and mana junkie in what I thought would be a big old remix covering the remaining folks that didn’t get a mix back. I used the great drums and percussion tracks from wellman (including timpani), colab’s piano, and placed spinning merkaba’s spoken word track around that. i used mana junkie’s track for the bridge. I also added some electric piano and string pads to the verse sections, and a number of synth tracks to the bridge. The result is “we are all one”
The final remix I just wrapped up was a last minute mashup I did to cover the last 2 artists I left off the last remix. I didbn’t leave them off intentionally, I just didn’t know they’d gotten stiffed too. “Getaway Deconstructed” is built around gmz’s instrumental track “getaway”. I augmented it with many of the samples from a nice sample pack from reusenoise, and threw an excellent vocal track by DJ Vadim and Katherine Debouer on top of that.
This week marks the final episode of the Cool Music show. At least in a weekly format. I may try doing a monthly version again, but I’ll most likely change some things.
One being the theme song, which I’ve hijacked from teru for 89 straight weeks. It’s actually what inspired the show to begin with, and is the namesake for the show. So thanks teru and crew.
It only made sense that I remix this for the last show. For this remix, I used all the same source teru used for his version. I added a few more vocal bits, but that’s it, nothing else really added. Most of the backing music here comes from Stefsax’s awesome track.
Thanks again for all the love and support for the show. I have mixed feelings about ending it, but I want to end it while it feels good and now is that time. There are other podcast ideas I’d like to explore but can’t due to the time it takes to commit to a regular weekly show. Thanks to everyone who ever listened! Enjoy!
I created and posted a new “PreMixter” video, which features the music of Subliminal. I cut and spliced an old WPA film about the dust bowl around his remix “3 Friends”.
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