OK, off we go again!
I finally completed my own remix of Alka’s Separate, when a few days ago I was sent a link by Fernando Fonseca to have a listen to what he was up to with his remix and to offer an opinion as to whether it needed vocals.
I am really impressed by what he’s put together.
Long and short of it is that we got talking about whether I’d be interested in mixing his remix. Fool that I am, I agreed!
Last night, I loaded the stems into Cubase and started to have a play around. I’ve worked on a supplementary bass part and I’m uploading a quick burst here, just a flavour of what I’ve got – it’s just a few bars of percs and bass, but gives a hint of where I want to take this.
Rather than the “drop” you’ll hear after the short soloed percussive break, it’ll almost certainly lift here (more drums!), but I do love the sub at this point.
As always, I’m uploading a tiny snippet to kick off the post. I really like looking back and listening to how the tracks evolve, so these are always great to hear once the finished piece has been mastered.
Mastered version
Separate – STRBX RMX by Half-BIT
Mastered by Pure Tone
Update: 20/10/2009
Should really listen to this again with fresh ears tomorrow before uploading, particularly as I did most of the mixing on the train. But what the heck! Let’s pop this version on the website now and if I need to remix or tinker in any other way, I can always come back to it over the next few days.
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Update: 15/10/2009
Train journey home allowed a bit more time to play around with the Half-BIT Mix. Really liking the way this is coming together, though clearly a way to go yet.
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Update: 12/10/2009
Still poorly so it’s laptop in bed (again) and a little bit more playing with The Half-BIT Mix.
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Update: 11/10/2009
Took @pure_tone’s advice and brought the laptop to bed to do a little more work on this track. Not taken it too much further as my head feels like ’tis full of cotton wool and I don’t want to have to undo lots of this later if it’s awful with proper ears.
Not an arrangement, nor a mix. Just some ideas. Some will stay, some will go.
Anyway, Tone was right. That killed an hour!
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First Upload: 07/10/2009
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Absolutely delighted that PublicSpaces has today released seven tracks (and the original source file) which resulted from my Twitter Random Sound project earlier in the year. The project, inspired by eavesdropping a Twitter conversation about databending, is described in detail on this website and also over at PublicSpaces.
My own track, Naranjo de Bulnes is included under the artist name Somió. This was a challenging project from a sound design point of view. As you will learn from the project description, all the artists were constrained to using only the source file (generated from numbers sent to me via Twitter and appearing as the first track in the SoundCloud player below) to create their final track.
I think you will agree, the diversity and quality of the results is a tremendous credit to the creative ability of the artists.
PS011 VA – Cosecha by PublicSpacesLab
