APC40 mix - Frankie Goes to Hollywood - "Relax" mixed with "Busy Child" by The Crystal method.

The Crystal Method are one of my favourite bands, and even though this song is probably about 10 years old, it still is a really kicking track. 'Relax' is of course very famous, and I thought it might quite well over the top.
In this demo I'm using a couple of plugins. The first is Effectrix, which is a glitch/beat scrambler VST plugin. The second one is called Lucifer, which does basically the same thing - but is a bit more advanced (and harder to use!). I have placed both of these effects on the master channel, but set with about 50% dry/wet mix. The two outside tracks contain MIDI clips that send note data to each of the plugins and trigger the appropriate effect. In this case I'm using Effectrix for most of the effects like Chorus, Flanging, Delay etc. and I'm using Lucifer for the beat repeating (8ths, 16ths, 32ds) etc.
I've found that using MIDI clips for triggering effects is a bit easier than trying to control it from the knobs and dedicated effects controls of the APC40 (as I have done in earlier remixes).

"American Ghostbuster" - Akai APC40 remix

This one started out more as a bit of a joke than anything else, I don't know why I thought it would be possible to put Ghostbusters together with American Beauty - but it ended up sort of working! Not an amazing remix, but not bad for a filler if you're doing a live set. American Beauty is one of those amazing evocative tracks that just seems to really fit well into any electronic setting.

Ableton Live 8 with Akai APC40 - Part 2

This is part 2 of my breakdown of the Money for Nothing remix. It shows how everything is put together, and the way that the APC40 is controlling Live.