Crazy (the original Gnarls Barkley version) is in the following movies:
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Horrible Bosses
Kick-Ass
Religulous
I Think I Love My Wife
plus occurrences in several TV series
WARNING: Language Advisory.
Although the Violent Femmes' cover of Crazy (by Gnarls Barkley) was not used in movie soundtracks, I found the style of vocals they had used for their cover to be a better fit with the lyrics, and was more suitable for my purpose in producing the three voices (i.e. three points of view) in my mash-up that I envisioned whenever I heard the vocals.
At the end of January, I had accepted a position as a new mercenary mash-up producer in the ranks of Mashup Industries (I guess I'm MI-7).
It's quite a privilege to be included as a member of a group of mash-up producers known for their quality mash-up productions. With mash-up producers such as DJ Clivester, Marc Johnce, DJ Schmolli, Dan Mei, Krazy Ben, and CjR Mix, I look forward to contributing to the high quality and diverse productions that's synonymous with the Mashup Industries label.
This announcement comes a few days before the release of my first mash-up track under the Mashup Industries label. February and March have been busy months for me, but I managed to squeeze in some time for mash-up production work and my next catchy little number.
Although I'm now a member of Mashup Industries, I'll still continue to update this blog with my latest productions and news.
Unreal Volume
Yello - Unreal
MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
4:26 / 320 kbps
After my summer vacation, and before I was able to get back to producing the next mash-up track for my movie soundtrack series, I was tempted and seduced into producing this mash-up track for Sound-Unsound's 80's Mashed 2 compilation project.
Some of you may recognize pieces of this track from a second version of my very first mash-up production, Thinking About Pumping Up the Volume (Touched by Love Unreal Mix). I was never happy with that version, as it sounded like two different songs mixed like a DJ mix instead of a mash-up, and some vocals just seemed to be slapped in between other vocals.
So this was an opportunity to take an old idea and give it a proper mash-up production. And, unlike my first production, I made use of the original MARRS sample pack to produce this track, which allowed me to do a few different things with those sources, and it provided me with a little more control over the final sound.
Sound-Unsound has just released their new mash-up compilation project, 80's Mashed 2, containing 54 tracks totalling almost 4 hours of mash-up music. As hinted by the title of the project, each mash-up track contains one or more tunes from the euphonious 80's.
The first song leading this huge pack of tracks is Unreal Volume by yours truly, where sources from MARRS and Yello mix it up to kick things off with an 80's house rhythm.
Very shortly, I will be releasing the first mash-up track from my new series, Behind the Silver Screen. Each mash-up track in this series will contain source material from one or more movie soundtrack songs.
Throughout the upcoming year (or so), I will release additional mash-up tracks for this series as I produce them. Each track released for this series will be identified with cover art similar to the one shown above in this posting.
The idea for this series was originally spawned in September 2008 while I was putting together a mash-up that contained a track from a movie soundtrack. I thought it would be a cool idea to produce an entire album containing mash-up tracks based on movie soundtrack songs. However, at that time, I didn't quite have the skills yet to maintain a good enough quality mash-up production for this type of album. So I set it aside for a later date.
While I was completing my Continuum 08 singles remaster project in the middle of 2009, I re-opened my movie soundtrack mash-up track and worked on improving the quality of the production. However, I wasn't happy with the overall arrangement and mix... I couldn't quite capture my vision for the track. So again, I put the track aside.
In the following couple of years, I would return to this little movie soundtrack project every 4-6 months and do a little more work on the track, then put it aside again. And when I wasn't working on it, I was writing down ideas for other movie soundtrack mash-ups. Although I didn't have a completed track for the project, I now had a lot of ideas for the project.
It wasn't until the past few months, over 3.5 years after the original conception, that I was able to fully realize my vision for this first mash-up track of this series. Hopefully, it won't take me that long to produce the second track. :)
It's been a year since I produced a new mash-up. Music/mash-up production is only a hobby for me, so it took a back seat this past year while things got busy for me.
But I'm planning to get back into some serious mash-up production this year. I've purchased a new laptop and new production software, so I'm hoping to work on a few productions this year. And this one is the first mash-up track produced from my new set-up.
In fact, while evaluating the different music production programs I was considering buying, a couple of the test tracks I chose to use for the evaluation process had started to come together while I was evaluating the programs. I made my software selection and then continued to finish off the mash-up track, which was then initially released on The 4th Point of Procrastination compilation mash-up release.
The mash-up track is now available here in this posting, along with an instrumental version, which highlights how well the instrumental sources work together and play off each other.
Earthly Temple of My Bonnie
Imogen Heap - Earth
Janah - Temple of My Body
Cynthia Lynn Douglass - My Bonnie
3:33 / 320 kbps
Earthly Temple of My Bonnie (Voxless Lullaby)
Imogen Heap - Earth
Janah - Temple of My Body
Cynthia Lynn Douglass - My Bonnie
3:33 / 320 kbps
Once again, Chris "Envision" Manning has released his 4th annual genre-smashed mash-up compilation album, called The 4th Point of Procrastination. It contains 60 tracks from 35 fabulous DJ's and mash-up producers.
I've finally produced a new mash-up track, called Earthly Temple of My Bonnie, which you'll find on this compilation (track #30). It's been a year since I've produced anything, and in fact, my last track was released on last year's smash the genre compilation. I was evaluating new music production software for myself and some of the test sources that I set up for the evaluation had started to come together into an actual mix. It was an ideal track for Envision's compilation, so I polished it off and submitted if for this compilation.
Dark sinister clowns have stolen the country music from Johnny Cash, which has made Johnny very very sad.
But with the energetic help of some old Yello, and a few additional funky loops/stems I found lying around (including some sounds from an old pinball machine), Johnny's Cry Cry Cry can be heard in a whole different funktronic light.
Night Cry (Early Bird Edition) was originally released on Envision's The 3rd World: Annual Genre-Smashed compilation. Unfortunately, the IFPI had the album download removed.
Fortunately, you can still enjoy my funktronic mash-up track here using the Official.fm player below. You can also enjoy the funky mash-up video I put together for this track (available on YouTube and Vimeo for everyone's global viewing pleasure).
Night Cry (Early Bird Edition)
Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry
Yello - Night Flanger
Qubic - a few sound loops/stems I found lying around
3:07 / 320 kbps / 7.3 MB
The 3rd World Annual Genre-Smashed Compilation mash-up album, compiled and presented by Envision, was officially released earlier today, containing 44 tracks from 29 DJ's and mash-up producers. The theme... Smash the genre and bring the track(s) into a new world of sound.
What is the real meaning of the theme? The idea is to take two or more original songs and combine them into a mash-up production such that the resulting genre is different than the genre of the original songs. Or more commonly... the resulting mash-up production is a different genre than the original genre of the predominant vocals.
Why am I promoting this compilation? I produced a zany psycho funketronic mash-up track, called Night Cry (Early Bird Edition), as well as a video to go along with it, which have both been released on this compilation.
It's been a couple of years since I posted my yearly favourite music picks. I'm not sure why I didn't post one last year, but here's my favourite picks of songs and albums that were released in 2010...
BorisB is working on a new-ish video project these days... He's taking his best mash-up videos of all time and reproducing them in stunning HD video. The first video out of the gate, and just in time for Xmas, is the video for the Xmas mash-up I had produced a couple of years ago, Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin. (Note: You'll have to watch it from the vimeo web site to get the HD quality video.)
Here's the remastered version of the song file in high-quality 320 kbps stereo for your listening and downloading pleasure...
Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin
Mediaeval Baebes - Umlahi
Loreena McKennitt - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Abdelli version)
Loreena McKennitt - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Instrumental)
6:05 / 320 kbps / 14.1 MB
Sound Unsound just released an awesome mash-up compilation digital album, World's Greatest Pop Mashups.
If you love pop tunes, there's 18 pop mashups on this album with pop tunes spanning the 80's, 90's, and the last decade. You'll also find a track produced by me containing a little something from the 80's and a little something from this past decade...
You can also visit Sound Unsound to get more details about the album release.
Sound Unsound just released the awesome mash-up compilation digital album, Chillax, Come Down.....
As the title suggests, it's filled with music that you can chill and relax with. Containing 23 chill tunes produced by various mash-up/remix producers, you will also find one chill tune produced by me...
Northern Half Life
Imogen Heap - Half Life
Enigma - Northern Lights Running Time: 5:24
You can preview my track using the Official.fm player above.
If you want to download the track for your music library, you'll have to download the digital albums from the people at Sound Unsound using the links found on the following Chillax release postings (fyi, my track is on Disc One, but you'll want both awesome discs):
Continuum 08 is a collection of remastered mashup singles and mixes that I had originally produced in 2008, plus a collection of mashup videos produced by myself and a few other producers. It commemorates my commitment to continuously trying to improve my production skills as well as my continuously growing interest in music mashup production (and now mashup video production as well).
I spent several months this year learning how to improve my audio extraction and mastering techniques, and what better way to do that than figure it out on pieces I've already completed. Thus, all the music in this collection has been remastered in 320 kbps audio.
My original intent was to have this project completed by April 2009, but a few personal situations delayed the project. My sincere apologies go to the other producers (BorisB, Guv'nor, and The Reborn Identity), who produced videos for this project back in February/March and had to wait until now to see them released. I thank them for their immense patience.
Continuum 08 is contained within 3 albums for your listening, viewing, and downloading pleasure:
Continuum 08: the Music
Continuum 08: the Mixes
Continuum 08: the Videos
Consequently, there are 3 download packages - one for each album. Each album download package includes the music tracks (or video tracks), a digital booklet (in PDF, which can be added to your iTunes library), a paper CD case (in PDF, with printing and folding instructions), and some digital cover art.
As part of this release, all the cover art for each mashup single has been recreated in 3D and only included in the digital booklets contained within the download packages.
You can listen to and download the individual tracks using the Fairtilizer music players below. Or click on the album download links to download the music tracks with all the extra goodies. Note that the Videos album package is not listed below because it will be presented in a separate blog posting.
Continuum 08: the Videos is a collection of mashup videos produced by myself and a few other producers based on my mashup singles from 2008.
My original intent was to have this project completed by April 2009, but a few personal situations delayed the project. My sincere apologies go to the other producers (BorisB, Guv'nor, and The Reborn Identity), who produced videos for this project back in February/March and had to wait until now to see them released. I thank them for their immense patience.
Besides uploading the videos to YouTube and Vimeo for people to watch, I've created 2 download packages. One package includes higher quality, higher bitrate videos. The second package includes videos that have been optimized for iPod, iTouch, and iPhone. The iPod versions can also be played on AppleTV or from the video output on iPod, iTouch, and iPhone.
Both video download packages include the video tracks, a digital booklet (in PDF, which can be added to your iTunes library), and a paper CD case (in PDF, with printing and folding instructions).
You can watch the individual videos using the YouTube or Vimeo video players below. Or click on the appropriate download link to download the videos with all the extra goodies.
Continuum 08: the Videos
Total number of videos: 8
Total running time: 43:02
Watch the videos with the YouTube player...
Note that the video, A Little Piece About Death, has been removed by a music label from YouTube and is not available in the YouTube player above. Please watch this particular video using the Vimeo player below, or watch the video on Vimeo.
Watch the videos with the Vimeo player...
Download links:
Continuum 08: the Videos with high quality videos:
If you're having problems with the above zShare download, try these smaller downloads via sendSpace split into 3 parts...
Download part 1. (sendSpace 231.89MB) Contains the extra artwork goodies and the following videos:
01 Thinking About Pumping Up the Volume
02 The Jig is Never Up
03 Fleurs Soutenues du Mal
Download part 2. (sendSpace 229.65MB) Contains the following videos:
04 Working Class Stigmata [iRadio Edit]
05 The Principle Look of Twin Lust #14
06 A Little Piece About Death
Download part 3. (sendSpace 163.21MB) Contains the following videos:
07 Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin
08 Feedback Inside the Robots (Morekraft-Lesswerk Mix)
Continuum 08: the Videos with iPod optimized videos:
If you're having problems with the above zShare download, try these smaller downloads via sendSpace split into 2 parts...
Download iPod videos part 1. (sendSpace 218.70MB) Contains the extra artwork goodies and the following videos: 01 Thinking About Pumping Up the Volume 02 The Jig is Never Up 03 Fleurs Soutenues du Mal 04 Working Class Stigmata [iRadio Edit] 05 The Principle Look of Twin Lust #14
Download iPod videos part 2. (sendSpace 140.43MB) Contains the following videos: 06 A Little Piece About Death 07 Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin 08 Feedback Inside the Robots (Morekraft-Lesswerk Mix)
Note: If the above links for the zShare downloads are no longer available (due to no download activity for 60 days) and you wish to download that video album package, please contact me so I can re-activate the download links.
Last year, I had produced a mashup song for Halloween, but only managed to release it the day before Halloween, so it didn't get much exposure. If you've never heard it, this mashup has a distinct Tim Burton movie style to it - a whimsical, slightly corny, high energy rock sound.
Now it's Halloween time again and I thought I'd promote the mashup once again for those of you who missed it. But I couldn't just offer you the exact same thing as last year, so there's a few little bonuses with this new 2009 release...
First, I've been working on some of my remastering skills, so I remastered this song a bit and offer it to you in 320kbps haunting stereo. Most of the audio was pretty good in the original release, so it basically received a little audio cleanup and a little more compression.
Second, for a little in-your-face Halloween fun, I created a 3D version of the album art (as shown above), so strap on your 3D glasses and bugger up your eyes & brain (click on the image above for a larger version). For best results, use the 3D glasses with the green and magenta (pink) lenses. I got mine from the 3D version of Coraline. You should also get some decent results with blue and red lenses.
And third, everyone's favourite producer, Guv'nor, produced a video to accompany this mashup. I hope you enjoy this healthy little Halloween treat - no sugar added!
BTW, there is a LANGUAGE WARNING - what's a good Halloween song without a li'l cursing?
A Little Piece About Death (A Rockoween Love Story) - remaster
Avenged Sevenfold - A Little Piece of Heaven
Sixx:A.M. - Life After Death
Sixx:A.M. - Intermission
Oingo Boingo - No One Lives Forever
Excerpts from Darwin Chamber's 3D Halloween Sound FX 2006 album
8:21 / 320 kbps / 19.3 MB
A Little Piece About Death (A Rockoween Love Story) [clean]
** CLEAN LYRICS version **
It's been a long time (over 4 months actually) since I've posted anything here, which means it's been quite a while since I've released any music production material. And I've been very quiet on the mashup/remix forums, too.
That's because, since January this year, I've been quite busy working on a project geared towards improving some of my production skills. But I didn't want to be the only one having fun with this project. I also invited a few producers to join in the fun. Boris, DJ Dylan, Guv'nor, and Reborn Identity are contributing some interesting videos to accompany this project.
In the middle of that project (in April), I got caught up in a creative contest that sucked my spare time dry until June, so my project was basically in a holding state throughout that contest. Although I didn't win a prize, it presented some interesting production opportunities with other producers/musicians that I hope I'll be able to show in 4-6 months from now.
When I started working on my project again in June, I decided it was also time to start having some fun with video mashup production. I decided that I'd tackle 2 videos for this project of mine. As it turns out, a few weeks ago an unfinished version of one of those videos was leaked out. Instead of fighting it, I thought I'd get the video completed and release it as a bit of a prelude to the release of the full project.
I present, from the upcoming release, Continuum 08, the video for Thinking About Pumping Up the Volume...
For those of you who are curious, I've uploaded the unfinished version of the video that had been leaked out a few weeks ago. You, too, can enjoy seeing some of story boarding ideas embedded in the unfinished video, and compare that with the final production. You can find the unfinished video version here .
Since this is my first video production, and I'm about to start the production of my second video for my Continuum 08 project, I welcome any comments or feedback about this video mashup production so I have some skills/issues to work on in my upcoming video productions.
I have a chance to win a brand new Nissan cube®. Nissan Canada is giving away 50 of them, and hundreds (maybe thousands) of everyday people will need to compete for them.
There's a tall order to win, and I'll need to jump through some techno-social hoops to have a chance at winning.
So please follow me on my long and winding Road 2 Cubism. It's a dedicated blog so people can follow me and leave their own additional comments and experiences.
All media files posted on this blog were created for entertainment and experimentation purposes only and are intended to be a demonstration of audio extraction, mixing, and production techniques. No personal profit related to the resulting media files is intended nor implied. The copyright of the original media remains with the original artist. If you like the mixes I have produced, please support the original artists by purchasing the original songs. If you are a representative of one of the artists or publishing companies and would like a mixed track removed, please contact me directly and I will remove the track. If you are a representative of an artist and like what I have produced, please contact me directly and offer me some proper original audio tracks for remix purposes and/or collaboration on the remix.
