Music Tech Forum: What If I Had My Secret Bliss

It’s the beginning of the end and I was one of the first to stand in the line of fire. Granted they were only bullets of fear, but it seemed like many of us were unprepared enough to get hit. We started our presentations of our real world remixed assignments, and a few of us it seemed weren’t quite as prepared as we would have liked to have been. Myself for example, if anyone was in class last week and is reading this please disregard my handout and refer to version 2.0.1 posted below. This one was spell checked in English.

The first thing I found interesting about the presentations was that so far only three out of seven possible tracks were chosen. What You Are, My Secret Bliss, and If I Had My Way. Although the advantage of this was that you could compare the differences in production, arrangement, and mixing styles between the people. Of the three people doing the Afro Celt Sound System track My Secret Bliss I found the most interesting thing was that no one really embraced the vocal track. Daniel Trembath went as far as explaining that he prefers music without singing. All three people presenting this one had hand outs (Daniel, Jake, and Stuart) which was great, although when Stuart got up and presented his I think we all felt a little deflated after seeing the quality and detail of his analysis.

Less people did If I Had My Way by Little Axe than I had imagined, although maybe this Thursday will end up being a mini Little Axe concert. I found a big part of the mixes on this one was the drum beat they had decided on. As the track had no set drum beat and just a couple of samples they had to come up with the actual beat from scratch. It made a huge difference in the sound of the track and I remember Scott H’s track actually feeling a lot slower than I remember the track being from when I tried to mix it.

I would like to hear a couple more takes on the Joi track What You Are which is the one I presented. It was very interesting hearing the differences between what I thought it should sound like and what Simon did. He used a vocal predominantly that I hadn’t even touched and our two versions sounded very different. Knowing what he had to work with I really enjoyed his presentation and hearing what he came up with from the same sound files.

Links-
http://www.realworldremixed.com/download.php - In case you still need it.
http://www.realworldremixed.com/toptwenty.php - Now we've done ours here are the best ones submitted to the site.