MC Jack in the Box

This month over on Remixfight!, we are featuring remixes of David Barnes reading “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, the ground-breaking document ratified by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. It defines the fundamental rights of individuals, and exhorts all governments to protect these rights. The UN has translated the document into over three hundred languages and dialects. David Barnes is a frequent contributor to LibriVox, an amazing online resource that is reproducing many of the world’s most important written documents from the public domain into spoken word tracks available without licensing restriction through LibriVox. Check out the remixes and please share the link and spread the word. The Olympics take place next week in Beijing and the timing for this could not be more appropriate.

I’m going to start doing a weekly virtual radio show which will highlight my favorite tracks over on ccmixter. It seems like so much gets submitted these days, it’s hard to keep track of it all since it gets lost and buried kind of quickly. So each week, I’m going to go back through the past week’s submissions and share my favorites. They might not be the best for everybody but they’re the best I came up with, and I’m hoping to also try to highlight the wide diversity of the artists there, and show how all styles and genres of music are accepted and embraced.Also thanks to teru for the intro of my dreams. There’s no way a better intro could be created, therefore it will become the permanent intro.

I’ve been remixing alot of Shannon Hurley, a very talented singer songwriter. “Overboard” is a pretty straightforward pop remix. “We are in Love” channeled my inner Burt Bacharach with some exceptional flugelhorn. Finally, I channeled my inner Tom Petty for “Where I Stand“. Enjoy.

photo: curran clark photography

So I had this Britney pella laying around and I was bored so I did a bit of googling and found the bpm and decided to throw some drums and bass behind it. Then I found this sample pack by Bucky Jonson of the Black Eyed Peas and took the acoustic guitar track and made it electric, and added some of his cool trumpet samples in the bridge.

Hit me baby one more time - Britney Spears remixed

New remix alert! I took an old familiar vocal track that I had previously remixed and paired it up with an old familiar sample pack that I had previously remixed and came up with Superfly, matching a pitch shifted Jason Brock with the funk that is fourstones.

Speaking of fourstones, there’s still a week to create your own remix of this sample pack and take on the mighty mixers of Remixfight! Game on, at least for another week.

Enjoy.

I’ve got a couple new remixes happening as we speak over on Remixfight!

The “Syntax Collapse Mix” is a pretty straight-forward remix of The Grammar Club’s song “Balloon Flight“.

“Lunatic” is a mash-up featuring DJ Blue, DJ Snyder, Beefy, and KCentric.

Check out all the cool remixes over on Remixfight! and pick your fave!

blocSonic is a net label that produces very cool online compilation packages of new CC licensed audio and video, complete with downloadable packaging and artwork. One of my remixes made it on to their recent compilation Anaxagoras. “Caught by the Hard Moonlight” features a couple friends from ccmixter, the words and vocals of Omni Vista and guitar from HC-7.

If you like your rap with sweet nerdcore sensibilities, boy band harmonies, and the serious mad production props of my buddy Adam!, then you gotta check out The Grammar Club, whose new web album is taking the kids by storm. They graciously donated their source tracks for one of the tracks “Balloon Flight” for the next remixfight, so if you wanna take a stab at remixing some great source, get on over here and happy downloading.

Speaking of the Grammar Club, I threw together a new mashup which features Beefy’s vocals and DJ Snyder’s scratches, and mixed that up with some DJ Blue and KCentric from ccmixter. Lunatic fringe. Enjoy.

I’ve kind of stepped in and taken over the admin duties at Remixfight!, mostly because I refuse to see it die a slow and painful death. Again. When it first began, it suffered from a lack of administrative oversight after the first few fights, and I stepped in and took it over. This was around 2004. Collectively, we (the community) brought it back from the brink. Then, we got hacked by some malicious virus that took the site down, and Future Boy rebuilt it into what it looks like today. He put in his time, and now I’m back to putting in mine.

This month, we’re featuring The Grammar Club, a bunch of really talented guys, some of whom are friends of mine and some of whom I’ve never met but seem like cool and talented guys. You can remix their new song Balloon Flight by getting the source files here. Go grab some grammar club and cuss like a sailor!

I also did a recent remix of Brooklyn’s finest, Clarance Boddyker, mashing up one of his pellas with a backing track by Sippy Cup. Check out Silly - Boddyker vs. Sippy Cup, as I try to play peacemaker over at ccmixter.

Enjoy.

I threw together a new mashup of C. Layne’s vocal tracks from “Apathy is Invincibility” with Brad Sucks “Dirtbag“.

I think the image above speaks for itself.

The Apathetic Dirtbag - MC Jack in the Box (featuring Brad Sucks and C. Layne)