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Remixed, Rennovated, Reconsidered, Refurbished, Reconstructed

Other people's tunes buggered about with.

M.O.A. Presents: Chords Of Orion – The Elements Shall Melt With Fervent Heat (Reconstructed)

2021/08/31

YouTube blurb…

An entry in the Chords of Orion Trial by Remix from back in the twenty first century. I’ve half-inched some dialogue to add a little impetus half way through from ‘You Will Become an Old Musician | Bring it on!‘ where the great man himself reads out a less than polite comment he’d received.

The only other additions are new drums and a synth part derived from Bill’s playing where I add an extra bar to the melody to fit the imposed structure. Plus special guest appearances from tam-tam and kangling 1.

Everything else is done by editing, effects, and of course – mirrors.

This is the original.


  1. Sample – this product is certified free of human bones. ↩

Annals, Noise remix

POP Remix

2015/08/16

I’m not sure I’ve got the hang of this EDM lark.

A bash at the POPsters mix kit as seen on Ototoy

I Had An Awful Lot Of Synths Left Over

Having stumbled across ‘Pretty Pretty Good’ via the pleasingly ludicrous video of this alternative Idol group hanging from a crane, the appeal of mixing it came from the offer of complete unadorned tracks rather than the more common stems. Also the possible puns around the name were too numerous to refuse.

The world was saved from my usual airy fairy stretchy interpretation by it being obvious from a quick perusal of the recordings that there was a lot of good bass and guitar work going on behind the synthesizers dominant in the official release.

First order of the day was a bit of shifting rhythm guitars around to fill in the odd hole here and there as well as moving the piano to accompany the singing in the quieter parts. For good measure I did the digital equivalent of old fashioned splicing to extend a couple of sections, though to what end I wasn’t sure at the time.

A combination of a POP Twitter header showing the five band members and the cover of the XTC single "This Is Pop" which consists of the title made out of commonplace objects

Then came the leg work of equalization, compression and wot not together with whacking amp simulations on the initially clean and D.I.ed guitar sounds. S-Gear for the aficionados).

I’m sure like myself you wondered how anyone could release a four to the floor stomper without tambourine and 80s drum machine hand-claps so they were added at strategic points and sound effects shuffled around for greatest… effect.

Lacking something to provide a bit of a boost to the vocal in the last chorus I dragged out a guitar for some ersatz double tracking. It was at this point we drifted back to the 70s as echoing the final ‘cry away’ suggested the octave part on the prior instrumental section.

After much mucking around with effects automation and titivating levels the chance finally came for a bit of subtle stretching with a touch of he old Johnny Remember Me behind the late ba-didily-ba-bas.

Though a rather anachronistic reading of the text for the most part it perhaps allows a little more of the singers’ characters to come through.

Teach The POPtroversey

How the merry band of POP will fair now their leader, カミヤサキ, has been sidelined due to taking ‘action in breach of management’s instructions’ we shall see.

Although I had little to no knowledge of the Idol industry before this and not a great deal afterwards it didn’t take a lot of effort to work out she was a something of a square peg. But that seemed to be what set her group apart.

It’s interesting from a cultural point of view that rather than storming the Bastille the fans on the whole appear to have reacted with, ‘that’s a rum do, hope you’re back soon’. Though a scan of a few pertinent search terms shows a bit more discontent away from the official feeds and streams. It may be that they’re aware it’s quite possibly a pre-planned publicity stunt.

To here more POP head over to their page on Soundcloud (now as Gang Parade) which is to be found hereabouts

The picture at the start of this post is based on the cover the of XTC single This Is Pop.

Added 31st August

Now Available In Video Form

Noise and why not, remix

The Gits Rebooted

2014/06/10

After the best of compilation come the inevitable remixes in a desperate attempt at contemporary relevance.

Annals, Noise remix, the gits

Failed Attempt At The Smithsonian Remix Competition

2013/11/04

As seen on the Soundcloud

I didn’t feel this went anywhere in the end so haven’t entered it but there are a few bits I like. It’s based on Bright Sunny South in the Smithsonian Folkways playlist with the addition of various nature sounds that they uploaded. Mostly I’ve played around with effects and using a drum replacer VST to create the midi to trigger rhythmic parts. The only thing added manually is diddily dum dum dum the big bass drum.

Screen capture of the SoundCloud blog introducing the competition in case it should disappear at a later date.

Annals, Noise remix

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