After finishing The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Trance Remix, I started working on a remix of various music by Shawn Phillips. Shawn had stayed at our house a couple of years earlier, and I had talked with him at length about his music. I thought that remixing his music might be a way to get some useful feedback on my fledgling talents.
I used music from a few of his albums, and I titled the final project REMIXIBUTION, a goofy version of Contribution, the title of his first album. I was still working on the remix when I lost it with my remix of Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets. This version is from late in its production, but it's not the completely finished version. That one is lost.
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After finishing The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Trance Remix, I started working on a remix of various music by Shawn Phillips. Shawn had stayed at our house a couple of years earlier, and I had talked with him at length about his music. I thought that remixing his music might be a way to get some useful feedback on my fledgling talents.
I used music from a few of his albums, and I titled the final project REMIXIBUTION, a goofy version of Contribution, the title of his first album. I was still working on the remix when I lost it with my remix of Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets. This version is from late in its production, but it's not the completely finished version. That one is lost.
Early Morning Hours (Night Mix) (2000) Shawn Phillips
Remixed by Alex Wroten
I guess I felt this sounded dark, otherwise the title is almost an oxymoron. Although this is composed mostly of drum loops and samples of the original music, it's still a good listen. I had learned to play more with ACID's pitch-shifting features at this time, and I made good use of them here.
I love the original song, so I think this remix earns a lot of points for that right off the bat. This is one of the earlier remixes in the bunch, and it shows. My favorite section starts at the 4:00 mark. The drum beat layers at the end are also great, but they are really my only additions to the whole last half of the track.
Lookin' Up/Remedial Interruption/Lookin' Down (2000) Shawn Phillips
Remixed by Alex Wroten
Although I really only offered some clever looping of the original material, some drum beats, and a synthesizer arpeggio, I still really like this remix. I love the section where I loop "go slow" repeatedly while slowing it down. That's clever text painting.
I didn't fully understand the original song, so I looped sections and added some drums and synthesizer tones. The dynamic changes in the remix are neat, even if the music is monotonous and repetitious.
Other than the added drums and bass, this remix alters the original by having multiple pitch-shifted voices singing in harmony. It's a bit weird, but it's also sort of cool. I like the understated bass drum ending.
This was the first remix that I made that my family really liked. I used many original loops, with the exception of some of the drum loops, and I unabashedly chopped up the lyrics like crazy. I even made a concerted effort to EQ-out all of the instruments. After I completed this one, I never went back to merely tacking on a bassline and drum beats.
I think this is a pretty good dance mix of the original. The drum beat and bassline are repetitive, but they at least suit the mood. My synthesizer additions aren't bad either.
This remix is fantastic. With the exception of two drum beats, I made all of the new music. I especially love the strange treatment of the middle section of the song. Along with Salty Tears, this is when I started to really figure out what I was doing.
I didn't make much new music for this remix, but it is still absolutely fantastic. Instead of only creating new original loops, I combined a handful of Shawn's songs. Using parts from January 30th, Breakthrough, and Ninety-Two Years, I created this neat composite piece. I love the combination of the strings from Breakthrough with the repeated bassline from January 30th. At the end, I made a strange new groove by pitch-shifting and combining different parts of these songs. What this lacks in original material, it more than makes up for in coolness.
I created this before I ever started REMIXIBUTION. For an experiment, I tried remixing Rumplestiltskin's Resolve using only FL Studio in late 1999. My Pink Floyd remixes were made using both ACID and FL Studio, but I decided to try FL studio alone for this one. I never did it again. It was hard to match beats and loop arbitrary sections of the original. There are some neat moments in this remix, but my only real additions are some drum beats and a pedal bassline. It's still better than some of my other remixes from the same time.
