Here’s a 5-way mashup featuring backing music by St. Paul, with vocal contributions by Forensic, Ms. Vybe, KCentric, and Beckfords. I guess you could say they were the ingredients and I was the chef here.
You can download the track here. All artists music courtesy of ccmixter.org.
Here’s the latest Cool Music show. Thanks to anyone and everyone that listens to the show!
The track playlist is:
You can download the entire show podcast here. (45 minutes, 53mb mp3 file)
Enjoy!
I’ve got a new remix featuring some very nice piano and vocals by Lisa DeBenedictis. This mix was kind of tricky and giving me fits as it was originally recorded in 6/8 time, and I had limited access to loops in that time signature. Since I really liked the original piano track, and wanted to use it, I was limited to working within that structure (or maybe 3/4 like a waltz shuffle thing, but still VERY limited source). I finally worked 4 MIDI tracks into a drum kit and used that as a bed to synch the piano and vocal track to. Once I had that, I had a pretty good “click” mix I could use to record the live guitar parts, as well as the synth tracks. The guitar tracks were recorded into a large diaphragm condenser, with the rhythm guitar in the middle and the 2 leads panned wide left and right. Played on my beater old Sigma Acoustic guitar. And I recorded a couple scat harmony vocal tracks. The synth tracks were played on my new toy, an M-Audio KeyRig 49, basically a cheap $99 MIDI controller I can plug right into Logic or Garageband and tap into their virtual synth library.
You can download the track here. Enjoy!
Here’s the latest Cool Music show. Thanks to anyone and everyone that listens to the show!
The track playlist is:
You can download the entire show podcast here. (39 minutes, 45mb mp3 file)
Enjoy!
Here’s the first Cool Music show of 2010. Thanks to anyone and everyone that listens to the show!
The track playlist is:
You can download the entire show podcast here. (43 minutes, 50mb mp3 file)
Enjoy!
Just finished updating the latest Remixfight (late as usual) and the source for this was pretty good. I worked up a remix under the guise of “Basketball Jones“. Don’t ask me why I picked that name, I wasn’t listening to my old Cheech and Chong records or anything like that. Check out all the remixes (there’s only 3 so it will only take 15 minutes or so) and pick your favorite, cause we like to feel validated and think people are listening!
Here’s the last Cool Music show of 2009. Thanks to anyone and everyone that listens to the show!
The track playlist is:
You can download the entire show podcast here. (40 minutes, 50mb mp3 file)
Enjoy!
For this week’s Holiday Cool Music Show, I invited Snowflake to “virtually” join me in the studio for the show, meaning she recorded a spoken word track and I cut it up and sliced it to make it sound like she’s in the studio with me. Fun stuff!
The track playlist is:
You can download the entire show podcast here. (44 minutes, 47mb mp3 file)
Enjoy!
Well, it’s not really as bad as it sounds. TechCrunch did a recent feature on Swype, and the video they created to support the article used my remix of Brad Sucks “Making Me Nervous”. I didn’t get paid anything for it (nor did Brad that I’m aware of), but they did attribute me at the end of the video, just like the CC license called for (unfortunately, no mention of Brad!). An excellent example of CC licensing in effective and practical use, and to have it featured on TechCrunch is the icing on the cake.
TechCrunch is read and hit by millions of web users every day, which in turn means millions (not hundreds here….millions!) of people probably read this article, and probably a good number of them hit the play button on the embedded video (well actually, almost a half million of them by the YouTube count). And it’s only been up for about 3 weeks. This kind of exposure is something that neither Brad nor I could possibly afford to buy, yet we get it for free. That’s right. We got a half million listeners for FREE! Because we gave it away to begin with, and made it easy for others, including media organizations like TechCrunch, to use with the proper CC licensing parameters.
It is kind of revolutionary, and forward/backward thinking what we are doing with the new music paradigm. Guys like Brad having been giving it away from the beginning, and now you hear all about big commercial acts like Smashing Pumpkins following suit. It’s about building a village. A global village of like minded artists who can appreciate and promote this new idea. A place like ccmixter.
I just posted a new short film I made to YouTube, part of a new project I’m working on which involves combining public domain video from the Prelinger Archives with CC licensed music.
To me, this is the ultimate form of remixing, and I love the idea of reusing old historical stock footage and adapting it to new music. I’m kind of a history buff, and there is so much historical information which will just get buried and forgotten unless we can somehow make it relevant again, at least for a moment. If this type of effort can educate someone about the historical context of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, or make them feel both the pain and the strength of the survivors through the power of Don’s music, then I feel the effort was worthwhile beyond the joy I had of putting this together.