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Thursday, 5 July 2007

Perfect Slow Music

The track that very nearly wasn't...

This one caused me a just a few legends of GYBO a few headaches! It's been a hell of a week, what with the shocking situation of hero wrestler Chris Benoit apparently slaughtering his family and then committing suicide (this guy was a hero of mine...I'm still struggling to get my head around it), the crazy terrorist attacks in the UK, the company I work for virtually doubling in size over night (and yet the work tripled....how does that work?), a hectic stag weekend down in rainy Cornwall, Newquay (more of which later), the smoking ban coming in in England, a blinding gig by The Hours in Leicester on Tuesday followed by some celebrity stalking of the man known as Serge from Kasabian (never did get that photo...dang-it), and my good friend Kirsty's 21st b'day party tomorrow night. Suffering from burn-out at the relatively young age of 28.

Anyhow, the stag do....I gotta thank the lads, and Arkie and Davo in particular for a cracking weekend. There's something quintessentially British about camping in a tent with a load of boozed up lads, in the pouring rain all in the name of love/marriage. Plus then there's crashing a go-kart at 50mph in to a wall of tyres and being shot in the throat by a paintball (I still carry the scars) at less than 20 foot, and if I ever eat another over-barbecued sausage with scotch egg chaser again, it'll be too soon.

But it was a fun time, and led to the creation of this track. Being a rather civilised stag party, I was taken aback by the randomness of some of the groups we saw out and about, and I was taken back to my youth by the pounding poppy techno played in clubs/bars such as The Central and Sailors. I used to love this stuff, and the sight of Brownie's dancing made me realise, I had to make a track that could be played in such a place.

Fast forward to Sunday evening... maybe 8 hours sleep in 3 days and I wasn't going to bed any time soon.

One track sitting on my PC stood out and I just so happened to have the 'pella and the instrumental...hear the cogs turning? Two other 'pellas that fit the bill perfectly and I was on a roll (inspired also by listening to a shed-load of Mark Ronson over the weekend, in particular his mash-tastic boot of Kylie's 'Slow').

My track was finished in probably less than 5 hours, and then the problem came up... a software glitch meant that I couldn't render the track. I kept getting some god-awful corruption 2 minutes in to the MP3. How annoying was that. Probably my tidiest work, and I couldn't share it.

A quick post on GYBO however, and a few days later, and finally I found a shortcut around the issue, slicing the track in to loops, and stitching back together in Adobe Audition 2.0, with the addition of a little intro. I'd like to give a beeeeg thanks to all the guys on GYBO who helped out, especially McSleazy, Riko, Essexboy, Ian Fondue and in particular 10000 Spoons. Good work chaps.

Anyway, on with the show...

Perfect Slow Music

Mason vs. Princess Superstar vs. Kylie Minogue vs. Madonna
(Perfect (Exceeder) vs. Slow vs. Music)



MP3 Here (new link as I've tweaked the timing on the Madge vocal)
http://www.mediafire.com/?0omfsmyz2de

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5 comments:

Unknown said...

I think this is your best work to date mate - excellent mashup and now on the playlist for the show. Good to see you stretching your skills and using more than 2 artists.

Scott
http://ramdomthoughts.co.uk/

Unknown said...

Thanks mate - I was really pleased when I did finally manage to get it rendered... everything just seemed to fit nicely together and I didn't have to mess too much with tempos or key changes.

Had nice feedback on GYBO that the Madge vocal is slightly off beat, which is fair enough but I can live with that, considering all of the stress I had getting this out!

Glad you like it Scott - just got to finish this ruddy Massive Attack boot now that's hanging round my neck like a lead weight! No doubt I'll sack it off to work on the CSS boot instead :D

Looking forward to hearing the new show when I get in tonight - have a top weekend.

Andy

Unknown said...

Cheers mate - you too! I'm off work today, so show #63 is already live - enjoy! I did'nt notice myself that Madge's vocal is slightly off beat - sounds cool to me.

Bye for now.

Scott
http://ramdomthoughts.co.uk/

Anonymous said...

I love this one - it's great

Unknown said...

Cheers Bobby - appreciated mate!