Today's Blog: the Faloopa Jones Remix

Have I told you about my newest project?

I took the song "Dickhead" by Kate Nash and loaded it into GarageBand on my computer. The sing is her singing and playing a simple bass riff on her guitar, playing the body of the guitar like a percussion piece on the off-beat. Now that it's in GB, I've been adding extra tracks to it: an old 808 digital drum machine drum track, a sweet conga track, some cool complimentary effects, and I re-recorded a more "pumped up" bass line on my electric guitar. Now it's a whole new beast, and I'm now trying to get all the balancing and sound envelope work done so I can export it to iTunes. It's been a lot of fun: I found that I really like making remixes.

However I'm very picky about remixes. It REALLY ticks me off when I hear a remix by DJ Somethingorother where the (new) background is in a different key than the vocal tracks. Really? You can't hear that? The way that they don't match up and it sounds like someone making a ferral cat forceably eat a pinecone? And you're a "professional" DJ, hua?

I came to this relization today after DLing the D-Sides CD by Gorillaz. Disc Two is all remixes of songs off the last two albums, and I was excited. I wanted to hear what some other folks did with Dare and Don't Get Lost In Heaven. I heared the FILA2000 remix of Feel Good Inc. and it was great (but not on this CD). Let me tell you: whoever did the remixes on this CD were drunk. Or deaf. Or drunk and deaf and trying to get a car to eat a pinecone. They suck. Suck hard.

This really gets me down: I adore Gorillaz, and was really looking forward to buying this album. This sounds like one of those CD's where the band has a shitton of extra tracks that producers cut from the last albums, and the band was like "ok - now we are Big Time and we can release this tripe and our 'hard core' fans will love it because, well, it's us."

I still love Gorillaz, but I wish I could find MP3's of just the vocals so I could do my own remixes. Anyone know how to get those? I've got thousands of loops in GB and I want to start doing more of these. I think my next project, however, is going to be making my own songs from loops and live tracks that I record - guitar, bass and vocals mixed with GB loops. I think that will be kinda fun. I do miss my bass guitar though.....