Money for Nothing Remix

Money for Nothing by Dire Straits has got such a famous guitar riff in it, and I'm just amazed there haven't been more remixes done. Of course Prodigy works with anything as well, so I decided to combine them both together. This is one of my earlier mixes, so there are a few timing issues that happened when I played it live, but nobody seems to have minded too much! While this is a pretty simple remix, I think it shows how combining two tracks together that are already so well produced can come up with something completely new altogether! Fortunately neither of the tracks had to be pitchshifted too far from their original key signatures, so I was able to use a lot of the samples completely in context.

Love Story Remix by Taylor Swift

This is a remix I did to introduce my Music Technology students to the art of remixing. Taylor Swift is an amazing song writer, and this song is incredibly popular. I thought it was possibly recorded a little bit fast though, and by slowing it down we could turn it into a bit more of a hip hop track. When this is done the track immediately loses its country feeling, but I think still retains the character of the original song.
One thing I try and teach my students is not to do a remix just for the sake of it, unless you are adding something new, all you're really doing is putting a beat under someone else's work. You should always strive to add your own unique creativity expression onto an existing track.

First day with the APC40!

I had literally just pulled the APC40 out of the box when I recorded this. Up until this point I hadn't really used Ableton Live much at all. My primary sequencer had been Pro Tools/Logic and before the Mac, Cubase. The hardware interface has made the software so much more accessible, that it's now become my primary sequencer.
This is a super basic remix that I will probably erase at some stage, but I've left it up as it was my very first one!