ccmixter assortment
Sunday, February 18th, 2007I’ve done a bunch of new remixes over on ccmixter recently. Alot of the stuff I do over there is rarely planned, it usually just comes in fits of divine inspiration as people submit new source material. Or sometimes, I’ll find a particular artist I enjoy working with and mine their archive for new ideas and inspiration.
One such artist is ran dumb dots, a long-time contributor over there known mostly for his vocal work, but who I found out recently can also play a pretty mean guitar. I’ve also done alot of remixes featuring the source tracks of Brad Sucks, and I recently threw a few mashups together that feature ran dumb dots and brad sucks.
“Random Brad” features ran’s vocal track from a song called “To Make a Dime” with the backing source material from brad’s “Sick as a a Dog”. I tried to create an arrangement that was a pretty even split percentage wise, with ran doing the vocals and brad doing everything else but the beats.
Then, after I realized that ran had also created a guitar track for the previously mentioned vocal track, I worked up the follow-up “El Camino Loco“, a Crazy Horse like tribute to Ran’s original song, with brad’s bass track and my beats making up the “band”.
In one last bit of inspired overkill, I put together “Valhalla“, a mashup of ran’s “Mind on Flash” vocal track with a variation of brad’s source from “Look and Feel Years Younger” anchoring the backing mix.
I’ve also got a new remix which features the awesome KCentric doing the vocals and raps on “Officially So“.
enjoy!