VOTE IF YOU LIKE IT :D

You don't have to be an Indaba Member to vote either - just click vote, and it will send you an email confirmation, click the link you're sent and it's done!
I've risen from 70th place to 35th in about a week so any new votes are really important now. Hope you enjoy the mix!

New Remix Submission

This is hopefully the final... final... final, final edit.
Much discussions have taken place involving kick drums in particular but I feel it is finally there. Still time to tweak, but I'm happy with it:

Feeling inspired... tired, but inspired :))

Well I have to say the discovery of not only the 'Lights' remix opportunities - and in particular the track 'Toes'. It's that intoxicating combination of finding the track amazingly catchy and KNOWING you could give it a different feel.
I think by really being picky about the competitions I enter will definitely stand me in good stead now...I mean I thought I was picky before but I'm having to UP the picky factor in order to allow the original material and collaborations to have a chance.

A combination of that now being in full swing, along with the discovery of how to use a technique called 'Auto Ducking' (If you use Audacity) has meant that I feel thoroughly inspired and mentally - if not physically - energised. :))

Here is the result of the second Draft, and a demonstration of the above. Hope you like it... and ciao for now:

http://www.indabamusic.com/asset/show/1604153

Creativity levels growing again ...

Ok I've just had a major slowdown in ideas and all thoughts of a creative nature due to several family related, Business related and outdoor DIY related issues during the last 7-8 weeks or so. These are now coming to a very slow conclusion and I'm starting to feel my brain waiting to let go a huge sigh of relief.
Be patient, brain... nearly there.

One collaborative project finished (http://www.indabamusic.com/asset/show/1598526) and several others to go, I feel the pull of one remix competition in particular due to its melodic properties and gorgeous vocals. I'm limiting myself to 1-2 of these per month. Surely that's safe isn't it? :oD

I feel the next post will arrive with a collection of new ideas :)

Ciao for now amigos...

If you build it... they will come...

I declare this blog...open :)

I feel it only right to introduce myself by referring to my official Indaba Music page to illustrate who I am musically at this point in time - and also kick off this blog with as little effort as possible but as effectively as possible. Which just happens to be my style completley :) Here goes...

My shortened musical evolution from as far back as I remember features mainstream pop, my discovery of the film 'Yellow Submarine' and an obsession with the Blue Meanies - and an inevitable level of influence from the Beatles as a result. This branched out into Nik Kershaw, Duran Duran, David Bowie, which somehow resulted in an appreciation of the Pet Shop Boys - the early days before in my opinion the songs started going doowwwnhill quickly.

This merged with a new appreciation of the sounds of Def Leppard, which was closely followed by Extreme. At college I inevitably moved onto grunge in the form of Stone Temple Pilots - Plush got me hooked.

Pearl Jam, Metallica, Faith No More and Soundgarden caught my attention more and more... this led to the Prodigy, Faithless and Apollo 440. Faithless more than lent itself to Trance music - so then I got into Euphoric dance and trance for a few years too.

As a result I think I've ended up with quite an eclectic music brain. I like raw, dirty riffs... I like live and acoustic tracks, I like polished pop, I like polished dance with seamless production. I like dreamy exotic vocals (Sarah McLachlan) and sweeping synth noises sometimes mashed in with whatever else works.

There aren't many musical forms I avoid - other than Hip Hop style R'n'B or Jazz - although one or two Jazz artists I've heard, (Norah Jones for one), I find easier to listen to than others.

More recent influences would be Lady GaGa, Origa (Vocalist for the Ghost in the Shell series' theme music) and Adam Nickey (An up and coming Paul Van Dyk in my opinion - awesome tunes - especially Callista, which blew me away).

So far people have compared my style of music production/remixing to - The 80's in general, Nitzer Ebb, Front 242... I will add to this list as I get more feedback...

FAVORITE LYRIC

Many: 'True perfection has to be imperfect' 'Strap-on Sally chased us down the alley, we feared for our behinds' 'If life is like a love bank, I want an overdraft' 'I'm the left eye, you're the right... would it not be madness to fight, we come one.'

To round off the first post, it seems fitting to attach a history of my remixes so far. The only one that isn't in sequential order is Linkin Park's 'The Catalyst' which should really be about number 9 in the list...here goes...