Music Spazz » remix http://www.musicspazz.com Everything DIY music business and technology. Musicians, sit down and take notes. Mon, 17 May 2010 16:30:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (Remix) http://www.musicspazz.com/music-business/grizzly-bear-two-weeks-remix http://www.musicspazz.com/music-business/grizzly-bear-two-weeks-remix#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:43:34 +0000 tanacea http://www.musicspazz.com/?p=516 Grizzly Bear

This session was all about automation. There are tons of pan, EQ, volume, and aux buss automation to create the spacial variations heard in the remix. The opening sequence was created by automating three frequencies in a four band EQ thereby making a filter effect. This filter transitions into a loop that has a buss automation that fades up quickly at the end of the loop which sends the Ahhhs to a mono delay. The mono delay is tempo synched to the session and then pan automated to create the stereo sweeping Ahhh stutters. I hope you enjoy the remix. Please leave a comment below.

01 Two Weeks (Remix)
Buy the original track here.

Software:
Pro Tools 8
Reason 4
Virtual Instruments:
Hybrid
Boom
NN19
Malstrom synth
Thor
Dr. Rex

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Original Grizzly Bear Photo Taken by Tom Hines.
Original Picture of me taken by Graeme Pitman

]]> http://www.musicspazz.com/music-business/grizzly-bear-two-weeks-remix/feed 7 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire, The Ineloquent, and the art of Remix http://www.musicspazz.com/marketing/the-fresh-prince-of-bel-aire-the-ineloquent-and-the-art-of-remix http://www.musicspazz.com/marketing/the-fresh-prince-of-bel-aire-the-ineloquent-and-the-art-of-remix#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:21:39 +0000 tanacea http://www.musicspazz.com/?p=502

Some bands only play cover tunes, others record them, and still others play, record, and remix them! I recently finished producing a band know as The Ineloquent who did exactly that. They wrote a new arrangement of a popular theme song and thereby created a remix.

The greatest advantage of creating this type of remix for the indie artist can be boiled down to one thing – exposure. Record a cover version (and preferably a remix (a version with your own flair added) of a popular tune and publish it in places that are highly indexible by search engines.

Here is a link to the download.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire Theme Song

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]]> http://www.musicspazz.com/marketing/the-fresh-prince-of-bel-aire-the-ineloquent-and-the-art-of-remix/feed 0 Stevie Wonder, Jungle Break, and the Art of Remix http://www.musicspazz.com/diy/stevie-wonder-jungle-break-and-the-art-of-remix http://www.musicspazz.com/diy/stevie-wonder-jungle-break-and-the-art-of-remix#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:17:25 +0000 tanacea http://www.musicspazz.com/?p=471 Andy Zipf and TanaceaThis weeks Free Beat Friday #fbf is a simple little ditty made with two turntables and little creative liberty. I recently resurrected this remix (I did it about 14 year ago using two Technique SL-1200MK2, a.k.a. The Wheels of Steel and a crappy recorder) and thought it would be a great example of how remix is a mash up of musical ideas. Sometimes remix elements are intentionally created for one another. Other times, such as with this remix, two completely separate musical ideas, born autonomous of each other, are brought together to create something altogether different – something new.

While listening to this track you will not only hear the cherished pop and fuzz that only comes from vinyl, but you will also hear, especially at the end, a horrible buzz generated from compute/recorder noise. Please listen through the buzz as I was a total recording nOOb at the time of this remix. I did the remix using Stevie Wonder’s Past Time Paradise and a Jungle Break album I picked up while living and DJing in Germany. I have no idea who did the breakbeat, as I no longer have the vinyl. I hope you enjoy.


Past Time Paradise

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