The Remix

This project was so much fun and I was super excited to get to put my touch on somebody else’s work. Jasmine (my remix partner) had a really neat song she made about space in which she used a field recording of her dryer at home going crazy and she was humming over it which gave a really ethereal feeling which to me really yelled space. To start I put multiple copies of her mp3 into Logic and started chopping them up to create the sound segments I wanted most.

Once I started formatting everything I knew I had to add the things that would turn it into a product of my own production so I got my little MIDI keyboard out and found some arpeggiated keys that I just knew would give a very “futuristic” space-y sound and went to town. To really get on the nose with the space theme I decided to sample the intro to Star Trek “space… the final frontier.” the narrator says. I really gave myself a kick with this part.

Feeling the song was almost where I wanted it I started adding textures and effects to some of the tracks and also did some vocal work myself with a compressed effect to give some digital vibes. Imagine: an astronaut lost in space except space here can be anywhere, even your mind.

Remix Discussion:

I love getting talk about stuff like this because a lot of my favorite songs actually sample some of my other favorite songs and it’s always so fun to me when I can make the connection independently! Today I’m gonna talk about one of the more obvious examples that comes to mind because I actually was just talking about this with my friend the other night.

Austrian freak weirdo duo, Die Antwoord samples Aphex Twin’s Ageispolis on their hit song Ugly Boy

Like I mentioned earlier this is a pretty obvious example of sampling and I think they were able to take one great finished instrumental track and turn it into the basis of the beat to their own song while still adding fully fleshed out verses on top of it as well as splicing the sample a bit so some differences can still be found, and adding a couple bonus instruments and bass hits to the beat make it feel like it’s own independent song even though at first listen you will always be able to recognize the Aphex Twin track (one of my favorites).