So.. the announcement was made after a long deliberation between the judges (Jonny Cuba, Audessey, Ollie Teeba, No Sleep Nigel and DJ Cro (that’s the UK DJ Cro, to avoid any confusion)). Yeah, so anyways, I came in third place, which means I’m one of the three winners of this little competition.. good stuff!
First place was snatched by Ashoke aka Boom Op, and second place by Ajuda (got no link for Ajuda.. sorry). Check the tunes in the player below!
As you might hear my tune is a little bit different here compared to the one I put up a couple of weeks ago, nothing major tho… and of course check Soundsci (buy the album.. it’s great!), Crate Escape Records & DJ Cro’s blog. Cheers!
In the post below you’ll find the tune and links for it, download is available via my Soundcloud page. And again make sure to check out Liqs bandcamp page for more good music. My man Bluevibe also wrote a little something something about it so head over to him and check that and his tunes out.. good stuff folks!
So.. here we go, my remix of St Liqour-Ish’s futuristic g-funk tune Money$ack is up and available, might even make it downloadable in a little while, just need to check a few things first.
Some electronic vibes with a twist, for those of you who know me that shouldn’t come as any surprise. So check it out right here, or peep all the tunes over at Soundcloud and make sure you hit up St Liqour-Ish’s bandcamp page for some extra goodies (remix will appear there shortly as well).
And again big up to my man Bluevibe for hooking me up.
Time for another recommendation.. this time we got The Lick by St Liquor-ish aka Jellphonic. Personal fav off the EP has to be Moneysack (2nd tune in the player) which is the tune I remixed as well. P-Funk for the 21st century baby!
After 13 long years, 14 studios and a gazillion dollars the highly anticipated first EP from St Liquor-ish, formerly and simultaneously Jellphonic, is ripe.
The first solo EP – “The Lick” smashes jagged beats with sacred subjects such as sex and hating with subtle undertones of grace and pornography. Collaborations for the EP include the smooth vocals of Lisa Preston on “The Junk” and the Electron Don, Zackey Force Funk on “Money Sack”.
I got a couple of instrumental projects in the making, not going to give away too much detail, but one of them revolves around making a 5-6 track EP through the evolution of one tune, and I’ll leave it at that.. enigmatic enough? Maybe not. I think they can turn out to be pretty interesting though, if they do I might consider pitching them to some labels.
I’m also going to try finish up another remix installment because some people have been asking me about it, and as I didn’t think my 2 Weeks 3 Hours project held up properly, it’s about time. I was also thinking about putting together a compilation of old beats spanning 1997 –2001, or around those years anyway. As I recently resurrected my old darling the Ensoniq EPS 16+ and converted all the old Atari arrangements to PC, all I could find at least. So I’ll check through them, pick out some decent ones and remix/re-master them. I’m not going to change the over all arrangements, at least nothing big, I just want to apply some compressors and proper EQ’s and so on, since I didn’t have any of that stuff back then.
Other then that I got an EP coming up with Atari Blitzkrieg (as mentioned before) and some other tunes which hopefully will come out during the fall, not going to jinx anything by spilling the beans, with my track record when it comes to failed releases, it wouldn’t be the smartest thing to do. I also made a remix of St-Liqour-Ish tune Moneysack, good looking out by my man Bluevibe who hooked me up. I don’t really know what’s going to happen with it as I had to leave for vacation right after I submitted it and I have yet to get in touch with them about it. So we will see.
And… as I got into division 1 of this years LouisDenLeague, I’ll need to step my game up since I’ll be going up against some truly talented cats over the months to come. Will be fun though, I need the challenge.
So that’s more or less it when it comes to the music bit, but I’ve also been thinking about some other things involving painting and photography.
I’m still in the planning process of figuring out a nice/interesting theme for a photo project, not really sure where I want to take it, or what I want to do with it at this point, but I’ll figure it out eventually. My old Nikon needs the workout, only been taking crappy pictures with a crappy digital camera lately and that’s not cutting it.
As for the painting business I have no idea of where to start, it’s been too long since I picked up the brush, but I’m sure that once I get some canvas up and get started it’ll fall into place. My painting process is fairly abstract, as are the paintings, I never really go in with a plan, I just let whatever it is that wants to come out flow, and as it progresses I’ll see where it’s going. Would be fun to have another exhibition, but it would require me to paint a lot of new ones because I only got maybe two or three old paintings left. So a long term project, or maybe a joint project with an old friend of mine could be the way to go, we’ve talked about it at least. That could be really interesting as we did some wild collaborative paintings back in the day. Maybe go for some big ass canvases and not just the regular meter, meter and a half ones.
My remix of Don Goliaths stepper Lot’s Wife is out now on Dubstep Division Recordings on the compilation Va – Lot’s Wife: The Remixes (DDR026), alongside 11 other remixes, spanning ambient to breakbeat to dubstep.
Grab it via Don Goliaths myspace page and/or check it out below.
My remix of Don Goliaths stepper Mrs. U is out now on Dubstep Division Recordings on the compilation Va – Mrs. U: The Remixes (DDR023), alongside 12 other remixes, spanning ambient to breakbeat to dubstep.
Grab it via Don Goliaths myspace page and/or check it out below or over at the Kvartersakuten myspace page.
As the title says, when you’re thinking about entering a remix competition, read the contest rules. If you don’t there might be some nasty surprises down the road for you. Of course you’ll probably have to sign some form of contract at some point, so you can always opt-out then, unless stated otherwise. So read through them carefully! And as they’re usually full of legal mumbo-jumbo, you could well read it twice, or more, without feeling bad about yourself.
So why am I talking about this, well I stumbled over a remix competition today that I though could be fun. But after reading through the rules I wouldn’t even poke it with a stick. Too bad. Nothing I can do about that, but at least it annoyed me enough to write this.
I actually did this yesterday and forgot to put it up. Some on-beat/off-beat thing, psych/prog samples again.. I just can’t stay away. 2 kicks, 2 snares, 4 hats, sine bass and a nice verse by Ide.
So, what now? Well.. I’ll take a week or so to iron out any kinks and such and listen through it properly to see if it fits together or not. After that I’ll make an unofficial remixtape for friends and family, maybe a limited download.. we’ll see. Plus a beat tape which will go out to a select few, and of course the full instrumentals to those that asked and that I trust hehe. I’ll make another post telling you what I think.. Did I hit or miss? Any duds? Which do I like? Did I manage to do what I set out to do? That type of deal. So expect that in a week or so. And the final tune…
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So.. the announcement was made after a long deliberation between the judges (Jonny Cuba, Audessey, Ollie Teeba, No Sleep Nigel and DJ Cro (that’s the UK DJ Cro, to avoid any confusion)). Yeah, so anyways, I came in third place, which means I’m one of the three winners of this little competition.. good stuff!
some form of contract at some point, so you can always opt-out then, unless stated otherwise. So read through them carefully! And as they’re usually full of legal mumbo-jumbo, you could well read it twice, or more, without feeling bad about yourself.