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A remix is a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, or photograph can all be remixes. The only characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and changes other materials to create something new.

Most commonly, remixes are a subset of audio mixing in music and song recordings. Songs may be remixed for a variety of reasons:

HOW TO REMIX

This is my Remix by an amazing beatboxing and body procussion Brazilian group called Barbatuques - NaMata

for this remix i entered a competition on SKIO music.com

• Time stretch audio to beat match existing elements

• Groove Quantise Audio

• Loop Audio effectively

• Pitch shift audio

• Reverse audio

• Match pitch and timing of MIDI information and audio

• Apply two different tempo related modulation effects

and all that other nice technical Stuff

I began by making an account on SKIOmusic.com and downloading the stems for the track, 34 in total

Full of hand claps ,cheek popping, feet stomping and lots of slapping,grunting,humming

And not an instrument in site

Out of them all kept 8 stems although i did combine a few of them together to free up more space to add my own parts, once id separated out what am keeping for my mix i loaded the remaining stems on to ableton and started making a MIDI drumbeat to go along with the track

Once i had that settled, i then took a minuet to think of what i can do with the track and what genue of music i was heading with it, but nothing came to mind.....

So i had a play around with a new sample pack i just bought (Black octopus/Shadow sound)

And found 3 nice little one shots that worked well with the vocal part i had kept.

And two 4bar kind of Reggie drum loops

But even with them my mix just didn't seem right, kind of flat and droning so it seemed time to add some effect to the audio

A happy accident came when i was messing around with the cheek pop stem, i through in an amp simulator - heavy tube, and that made it stand out from the rest of the track

Another was the group clap, i came across the plugin, Beat repeat, and honestly had no idea what it did so added it to the stem along with robot voice and it made a weird squelchy / glitch type sound that i really liked so i made it fit in the track with a little compression a limiting as some of the audio pops at a high level

Stems and Samples

Original Track

Bbminor 88bpm

For this I was required to produce a remix from a multi-track master in Ableton.consisting of at least six distinct audio elements and a minimum of one MIDI sourced element.This had to include my ability to: -

Reverse audio

Match pitch and timing of MIDI information

Apply two different tempo related modulation effects

Create a simulation of analogue tape delay and saturation

Use MIDI to trigger audio events (sampling)

Produce a (pre-master) mix-down from the multi-track remix

I received my stems from indaba music’s remixing competition the tracks called "you don’t know" by Justine Skye ft. WizKid, so I had a listen to the song and tried to think of any ideas I could come up with to remix this track. Whilst doing that i uploaded my stems in to Ableton, started with warping the audio to the grid so I can keep the track at is original tempo whilst still able to change the session tempo on Ableton. After listening for a while I just had to stop, I found the track to slow and rather drowny so I immediately started to crank the tempo up on Ableton till I was happy with the pace of the kick and bass sample tracks around 132bpm I went on to take out the audio parts I didn’t want and began to arrange separate loop I was going to use in my mix I added in a house drum sample I found that I extended and changed the pitch to fit perfectly with what I had already, and old recording of me tapping a ride cymbal that needed a little EQ & compressing separately before adding it to my Ableton session.

out of the track that I was give and after being chopped up in to loop it was now time to peace it all together in to an actual song, which was just like a big jigsaw puzzle but once I had it right I knew it was going to work all that was left was to add the FX required in this task plus the FX will bring all the separate sample pieces together an make them flow perfectly

Original Vocals – EQ to fit with the new tempo and samples added

Vocal sample FX - Ping Pong Delay & Reverb

Kick 2 - has a little Ping Pong delay to make It bounce and adds

reverb delay

Bass – Flanger Compression as it brought something nice to the

mix having it a little out of phase

Piano/Synth - (Some parts Reversed)

122bpm Shuffle House Sample - Changed the pitch of the sample

to cut through the bassie parts

Shake Sample 2 - Hi-pass & Lo-pass Filter to squash the hi and

low frequencies to create the right sound to fit in to the track

For the MIDI requirement, I added another Kick to emphasize the

sound, by adding it in another key along with a clap/snare hit to make flow with the house sample I have added

is a remixing style in which a remixer takes two songs and mixes them with each other in a clever way to create a new song. Usually, it is the vocal of the song they want to remix with the other musical parts of an older song. Usually, a small bit of the old song is "cut" in an audio editor (DAW) into a loop, a piece of music that when played on repeat does not have any skips or musical pauses.

This loop is usually called a sample in the world of remixing. This sample is then looped (played over and over) in a sequence to create a new sound. The remixer then mixes the vocal of another song over that loop. It is also possible that a mashup style remixer will take the entire musical part of one song without its vocal – called an instrumental, and put them together to create one song.

This is my mash up of two of my now favourite music producers Sonny Moore and Trent Reznor

I was tasked with Researching the work of two music producers who are known for working in two different musical genres. Then to Compare and contrast the working methods of the producers and the there musical styles. I then had to Apply the production techniques researched to create my own multitrack recording.

Research

Click Research and find out

what i found

Samples used :-

downloaded stems for song ONLY from Trent Reznors

remixing site

Bass ( kept the same )
Piano (added a little erosion)
Vocals ( reverb for some echo)
Guitar ( enhanced the static sound with some EQ
Synth ( has been reversed

Samples used - Skrillex released a Dubstep sample library

Kick, Snare and hi-hat - drum kit samples and created a MIDI drum track
bass growls - created my own sound by combining a few together that works with the track

Then i Created loops to use as a backing track from a mixture of Skrillex samples

This is a mash up I did by complete accident it was part of a project I started last year for college

As part of my remixing class, I was asked to make a remix of either Shaman by My Digital Enemy of Solid gold by Michna, but I don’t think I was paying attention as I manages to load the stems of both songs on to Ableton and started my remixing process. By the time I realised however I had already come up

with a with a catchy tune

so I decided to go with it.

Here is what I came up

with how you enjoy.

Iv added the original

songs on the left so you

have a listen to what

parts I used to bring

these two songs

together as ONE.