Re-edits

I've been doing re-edits ever since I had a tape player with a pause button. Now that I have a computer, it's a lot simpler. ;-)

They're not rocket science (I don't have a keyboard, or ProTools, or... any equipment actually), but some of them turn out to my liking. Often, it's just a case of getting the vocal mix to flow into the dub, without anyone noticing where one stops and the next begins. Sometimes it's trickier.

Anyway, I'll be posting a few of my favourites here over the next few weeks.

Here's one I've done of Relevee by Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom.

This was one of the best tracks of last year, but difficult to find on CD in Europe, despite killer remixes (Carl Craig, Baby Ford). Caiman still have it for around $5 (less than four quid in the UK, less than six euros in Europe...).

I really like the way the track has been turned from an ever-changing ambient masterpiece into devastating space disco, so I thought it would be great to marry the two. Now it's a 14-minute monster! (albeit with an extremely long introduction). Feel free to tell me what you think, or to send links to films of you dancing like a person possessed.

And if your are big fans of the group (there must be some), you can watch them being interviewed - in a big red lift - about, erm, making their own synthesisers. So I suppose they're geeks, but they seem like nice geeks.



More edits coming soon...

The mixes and the dubs

I've been posting my re-edits on my other blog (www.jasonw.eu) for a while now, but I thought it might be useful to collect them all in one place, without extraneous articles about my life getting in the way. Hopefully this will help people find them, and - eventually - appreciate them.

I've called it The Mixes And The Dubs because that's what my re-edits often boil down to; taking the vocal mix and the dub of a track and editing them together so that you can't tell where the join was made. Sounds simpler than it is. Sometimes the re-edits are more involved than that, sometimes they're just dead simple, but I love having a track that lasts 10 or even 15 minutes (sometimes more!) where the same elements are reused in loads of clever ways. I've always been fascinated by remixes, reinterpretations. All music is - partly - a work in progress.

I usually call them my Fist Fusions (from my old DJ name - Jason Fist). I'm no Danny Krivit, I don't have any studio equipment (I used Amadeus Pro on a bog standard Macbook) but I'm proud of them, otherwise I wouldn't be posting them!

Most of the music is from the early nineties. I love the MAW mixes from that time, as well as Sanchez, DJ Duke, MK, Morales, Satoshi Tomiie, etc.

So enjoy the blog, leave comments, listen to the mixes, tell me what you think.