4 or 5 months ago while poking around the monome.org message board that I frequent on, this Canadian group called Names posted this video of them doing a live performance using the monome in the studio. Most of what I’d heard with the monome up to that point was mostly instrumental, but they were throwing vocals in there and it sounded really nice. At any rate, shortly after that, they put out a 6 song EP, and after reading their blog for a while it became apparent that they were open to collaborating with different artists. I contacted them to see about doing a remix of the song “Show You Love” off of their EP. I had been working on a track that already sounded like it would work if I changed up the key and tempo a bit, but as it turned out, someone else had already asked them about doing a mix of that track. After listening through the EP again, I asked about doing a remix of Beating Records, which has this great broken beat track over rhodes and string parts.
Ajay graciously sent me the stems of the track. I knew I probably wasn’t going to use a ton of the material aside from the vocal track, but it was nice to get a peek inside the arrangement and actually soloing out some of the parts gave me some ideas for countermelodies. After playing around with it for a while, I kind of settled on doing something at half tempo of the original track. Their track was upbeat and driving, so I took it to a new place with half tempo and filling the spaces with glitchy marble samples, cello parts, bouncy arpeggiated FM synths, and a throbbing Dubstep bassline. It’s definitely a headphone song. I seem to do my best work at around 2am.
I hope that they release it in a format that’s purchasable, but in the meantime I can give you a listen only here.
Here’s the original track: Data Romance – Beating Records
Here’s my version of the track: Data Romance – Beating Records (Meta Remix)
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Dude, great remix. The original was good, but you killed it on the remix. Reminded me a lot of plumb, only more monome-ish.
love the downtempo remix. excellent midnight music. the tempo change, and sparser sounds really help bring out the vocal melodies. nicely highlights the singer’s talents.
Just seeing this now. Thanks! You can tell how often I look at my blog. Haha.
dude!
this remix is THE SHIT!
good job, seriously…..
wanna play a show in pdx?
<3
I’ve been digging Data Romance’s tunes for a while now. This remix is stylin’
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