I’ve been doing a lot of production in the last couple months, mostly under my resurrected alias schädel. Above you can hear a preview of* one of the songs I produced recently, which is as yet untitled.
I have a good amount of material mostly complete, which I hope to release this year.
* I decided to just make the whole thing available. Why not?
This was my winning entry for a remix contest to appear in the soundtrack of the locally made, crowd-sourced short film, Radius.
If you’d like, you can check out the original version of the song, and watch Radiusin full, as well as a making-of documentary in which my remix also appears.
So, here we are: we’ve arrived at the release date of the full-length debut from Adam WarRock, entitled The War for Infinity, which also means it’s the release date of my latest dj mix. As I mentioned last week, it’s a mixtape available exclusively as a free bonus download with the purchase of the deluxe version of TWFI.
Here’s the tracklist of the mix, including most, if not all, of the little samples here and there. I threw in a couple drum loops from some producer sample-type discs as well. And just because I’m a bit obsessive, I’ve added a link for most of the tunes, so you can hear them out of context.
A.R. Rahman – Ishq Bina (remix) [watch] Longmont Potion Castle – Get Fresh Crew Rye Rye – Bang (instrumental) [watch vocal version] Lee Dorsey – Get Out Of My Life, Woman [hear] Adam WarRock – No Album (a cappella)[hear original] Dirty Projectors and Björk – Ocean [hear] Radiohead – The National Anthem [watch] Aoki Takamasa – RN4-09 [hear] Adam WarRock – SCDP (Build Something) (a cappella)[hear original] Iamamiwhoami – B by Tara Busch [hear] Machine Drum – If Yu Know Your Cockie Bruck Dung (instrumental) Roni Size and Cypress Hill – Child of the Wild West (instrumental) [hear] Adam WarRock – The Great Recession (a cappella) [hear original] The Mighty Boosh – Killaroo [watch] The Mighty Boosh – The Hitcher [hear] Ali G and Shaggy – Me Julie (instrumental) [watch original] Adam WarRock – Girl Comics (a cappella) [hear original] El Remolón – La Bonita [hear] The Conet Project – Phonetic Alphabet NATO [hear] Mr. Flash – Champions (instrumental version) [hear] Adam WarRock – Bad Meaning Good (a cappella) [hear original] Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip – Sick Tonight [watch] Marteria – Amy’s Weinhaus (instrumental) [hear original] Adam WarRock – PBR (a cappella)[hear original] Kavinksky – Night Call (Sun Butler mix) [hear] Adam WarRock – Smashed Gordon (a cappella)[hear original] Maker – Silver Mountains [hear] Martin Galway – Green Beret Loader [hear] Adam WarRock – My Tea Party (a cappella)[hear original] Blixa Bargeld – Skorbut Pino Donaggio – For the Last Time We’ll Pray [hear] Adam WarRock – Six Million Dollar Flow (a cappella)[hear original] Schlachthofbronx – Ayoba (instrumental) [watch original] Otto Von Schirach – Beta Bodega (La Guerra) (instrumental) Adam WarRock – Supervillainy (a cappella) [hear original] Anti-Pop Consortium – Volcano (Four Tet instrumental) [hear original] Neil Perry, character on Dexter, from the episode “Circle of Friends” Jonathan Bepler – The Ballad of Gary Gilmore (feat. Patty Griffin and Steve Tucker)
Also included with the deluxe version of TWFI is the above mix cut up and arranged as separate Adam WarRock remixes/blends/mashups/whatever. It’s available on its own as well, but it’s free with the album purchase.
Forthcoming (next week, to be exact) is an album by Adam WarRock, produced by Ruckus Roboticus, entitled The War for Infinity. I mention this here because one of the bonus downloads you’ll get with the deluxe version of the album is a mixtape, put together by me, using a number of Adam WarRock TrackLoga cappella tracks, mixed with a healthy dose of eclectic tunes from a wide variety of artists, from Radiohead to Otto von Schirach. As a preview of that mixtape, we’ve selected the above tune, “No Album (DJ Empirical remix)”, pulled it out, and arranged it as a standalone track.
As a dj, I’ve always appreciated “unmixed” releases of large scale dj sets, so I thought standalone edits would be a cool thing for use in radio shows and by other djs. The full mix, and a set of dj-friendly edits like this one, will be available as a free bonus to the album on October 7th. Check out Adam WarRock’s site for all the details on what you’ll get with the full release.
Audiography for this remix:
A.R. Rahman, “Ishq Bina (remix)” [watch] Rye Rye, “Bang (instrumental)” [watch vocal version] Lee Dorsey, “Get Out Of My Life, Woman” [hear] Longmont Potion Castle, “Get Fresh Crew” Adam WarRock, “No Album (a cappella)” Dirty Projectors & Björk, “Ocean” [hear] Radiohead, “The National Anthem” [watch]
A few months ago Kendall & Matt of Koala Fires asked me whether I’d like to remix one of their tunes for a remix album, and (of course) I accepted.
The above is the finished version of my remix, and will be is available on their bandcamp pagewhen it’s released. You can hear (and purchase!) the original version of the above tune there as well, or click the play button below:
Today everyone’s been passing around the 8x slowed down Justin Bieber track. It’s pretty sweet, and though I’ve been playing around with slowed samples for quite a while, I never had an app that worked as well as PaulStretch.
After listening to the Bieber track, I thought I’d see what Venetian Snares sounds like at 1/4 speed. It’s not as slow, ratio-wise, as the Bieber thing, but I wanted the result to still have a beat.
If you’d like to hear the original version of “Gentleman“, here you go:
When I first heard Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro”, I thought the similarities to Ace of Base’s classic “Don’t Turn Around” were striking. I dug up the Gaga instrumental easily, but the Ace of Base a capella was tougher to find. In the end, I had to use the 2009 version, which has a slightly different vocal rhythm — not exactly what I wanted, but I think it works.
I upped this onto youtube when I made it, but I’m just now (Nov ’10) uploading it here for download.