Afrocelt sound system goes under the scalpel mwoahahaha

• Import all the audio files into the regions section of protocols • Investigate • Have genius idea to establish the original tempo thus making everything fit together neatly with little or no editing • Sampled the sound of the kick, hihat and snare but opted in the end to use the bodhran/percussion samples for my initial drum part – results in nice folk feel • Looked for an alternative motif to the vocals or the whistle parts to build my piece on, settled on a kora riff • Experimented with the abstract key parts as they sound cool but found that regular keys sounded better. • Made a cliché doof doof kick drum beat out of the kick sample at 1:24 because it could be done and because it removed my remix further from the original. • Included a guitar line and a bass line with the doof doof, it’s like the climax of the piece • Really didn’t like the vocal samples but included them in a minor way. They are very quiet in the mix when they first appear and don’t really get to shine until the guitar/bass drops off and leaves a minimal mix of kora and drums . As I progressed through my mix, it became apparent that it helps to have a good idea of what you want the end result to sound like. Thinking of the remix like it were a rehash, I considered that one could take the song in question and remix it to sound like an assortment of genres (an idea that solidified after hearing a remix of Shock the Monkey that sounded industrial). As far as research is concerned, I found very little advice on the creative aspect of things and most information was directed at people who had wav files of songs to work with, not jigsaw puzzle pieces. A lot of my samples already had heavy use of effects like reverb and delay (rendering reversals very obvious) so I didn’t bother much with effects (just the occasional modulation on the kora part for a change). One bit of information I found invaluable was the rule of repeating new things 8 times before evolving or changing them. Perhaps, this rule cramps the creative potential of the remixer but it is aurally an aesthetically pleasing thing to do. Bibliography http://forum.djspenny.co.uk/index.php?s=76355067b1c0fe639f868cb38b8706e4&showtopic=268 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/avalanches.html http://helpdesk.audiofile-engineering.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=31 (this guy is obsessed with 8 beats) http://www.realworldremixed.com/remix.php?remix_id=l5488eOTKmixVO4. http://blog.deepsound.net/?2007/01/08/117-bjork-remix