Accumilating info here:
Who have already, or intend to participate
in
the remix contest?
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Continuing chatmode:
As Daniel and others already said, I too
hope
it's one of us that will win. If not for the mix
itself,
then for our devotion in what every
way!
I signed up instantly to make sure that I
atleast
can lay my hands on original material from
Boris.
I seriously doubt I can come up with
something
that satisfies myself, within 48 hours. Therefor I
hope
it will fit somewhere I already have lying around.
This
would make a bit easier.
Creativity cannot be forced. And while under
preasure,
Creativity suffers. Atleast in my
case.
ne, ne, ne, ne... nervous... Hell
Yeah!
When looking at the track that came with the How
How
series, it will be even more hard to come up with
something.
It's okay when there is a rhyhm loop, but these
loops often
lack the fills that one needs before a segment
change.
So you would have to construct a fill from the loop
handed,
using up too much of valuable time. I can remember
how I stripped
and sliced all the horns to use them in my Swing
like Bathtub song.
And even adding something from Sinead O'conners
jazzy album,
the Art of Noises Dragnet track, and my own
handclapping and
finger snapping, and ratles on the desk here and
sliding paper
for brush slides..., and oehoe-ing in the mic for
voice layered
basslines... and pretending to be a Dieter like
announcer in
a sleezy jazzbar while introducing myself as the
man who
only sings in his bathtub...
Sampling is like using the dirty underwear of
others, as Karl
Bartos once put it, but I'm not that bothered by it
when it
suits the track. And what better way to give a
track a Yello
feel, by using Boris' sounds... And how far appart
am I from
sampling when I know how to program my synths
so they
produce a yello like sound, or even like And One
features
in their work?
Another great thing about the remix contest is that
the mix
itself may not be longer than 3.30. This will
easily exclude a lot
of trance producers, who smear their creative
output along
tracks taking up 7 minutes or more. My own work is
always very short,...
but that is due to the fact that my creativity is
limited to
2.5 minutes in general in a track... :-) So I
just cram what
I can come up with in a short track to keep it
more interesting
than by stretching it into something that is just a
cd space filler.
I'm listening to Rubberbandman now.... In the first
10 seconds
I already hear more then 15 individual sounds...
jeesz...
When the head prize is a meeting and greeting with
Boris,
and the gods decide I should win, I'll
bring my powerbook, handcuffs
and ducktape with me. At first I'll ask Boris
if I can download his sample
bank, and if he gives me static... grin and
smurk...
My the gods smile on us, and give us The Force to
commence
battle against the none-members.
Darth -Ducktape Dutchman Rene- Fader(*) ...