When I’m feeling stuck creatively, something that helps out fantastically is to pick apart someone else’s song and remix it. I fell into a bit of a funk recently and as a result have been focusing extensively on remixes, going so far as to start up a thread on one of my favorite forums to…
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Tags: music, remix
I found David through the “Reasoners” reddit community, where he had posted a link to download the project file for this track as an example of what could be done with Propellerhead’s Reason software and that it could be considered a competitive DAW. I’d heard some of his stuff before, finding him through previous posts…
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Tags: collaboration, music, remix
This was another remix that I was unsure of how to start. Sometimes I go into these things knowing exactly what I want to do to a track: what I want to change, what sounds I’d like to use, how to arrange it, and so on. This time around I didn’t know what I wanted…
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The extent of my exposure to Zombie Nation was a demo track included in the sequel to the MTV Music Generator, the creatively titled MTV Music Generator 2, available for the PlayStation 2. The track itself was Inside the Speaker, and I only vaguely recall it since by the time I had received the “game”…
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Tags: music, playstation, reason, remix
I check BeatportĀ semi-regularly for their remix contests but only sometimes find songs that actually interest me, or more often find them between contests. I was pleasantly surprised to find several brand new contests the other day and quickly downloaded various stems and got to work. The first one I’ve managed to finish up is Omid…
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Tags: music, remix