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From: "spaceanimals" <rainbowjimmy@...>
To: <AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:51 PM
Subject: [AN1x] remix patches


> I got a remix gig. I get to remix a tune for free-no I haven't heard
> the song yet, no I don't know the key or the tempo. I have plenty of
> street cred as a white guy in my 40s who has never been in a club in
> his life.
>

Sorry...I'm 47 so you wouldn't WANT any tips from me, but I have a question.. :-)

Or a couple.

I am used to the term "remix" meaning to take the original tracks and mix them again, possibly changing EQ, levels, or even adding effects. Remixing to make the bass stand out better, etc. This seems also to be what is meant when you get a "remastered" CD like Pink Floyd, and all the older groups come out with.

It also can mean adding things, like a new bass line, or an extra guitar (okay...synth)

I also am slightly aware of it meaning in rap/house/whatever-else-l-am-hopelessly-out-of-touch-with that you take someone elses mix (or your own...from the same CD) and do what I described above, but where the result is radically different than the original.

Does it mean more than that? I guess I don't get how you can decide before hearing what beat you are going to use and what kind of bass....it seems foreign to me, like "no matter what it sounds like...I am going to get it into THIS kind of song" (not that there is anything bad about that..)

But WHAT really does it mean? Is it different than simply sampling bits of the song and restructuring the whole thing?

I ask because it is dawning on me that I don't know what remix means in the context you use it in.

Regards,

Jim
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