Before I Catch This Plane
A quick post after an all-night geeking session. The clock is ticking on a few cool projects before I fly out to join a project taking place in Vietnam and Cambodia. The trip is part of a charity challenge that we have been looking forward to, but the flight departs in 48 hours and there is still a lot left to do! Recently we have been bringing some life back to these blogs as we ready for an exciting 2009, which is obvious I hope just from looking at the site! A quick bandaid solution to get the dialog happening again, and as such its about time to drop some audio files of whats been up.
First up a couple of snippets from the pre-masters of Reset and Forever. Kris and I worked on these ages ago but they got lost somewhere between here and the label, and we lost track of progress of the releases. Crazy I know, but it does happen. Thanks to the magic of internets and interwebz and even innawebz, these will be up on Beatport once Smashbang Records work their mastering magic and everything sounds sweet. For now, here’s a taste of whats to come.
Forever teaser
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Reset teaser
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Next up a little bit of a session from late last night. This is pretty raw but its only fitting to start giving some insight into whats happening in the studio. Kris has got me in to do a quick mixdown of his quite inspired track “Begin Again”. Id love to claim thats because my mixdowns have suddenly become magical overnight, but its more due to some issues with his DAW and my brand spanking new production tower. The original tune is a lovely slice of melodic progressive house with plenty of subtle twists and turns, as Kris is frustrating adept at. His other forte is big woosh build ups, which he eschews here and keeps it nice. Which is where I come in. Here’s one of at least 10 or so nasty directions I’ve taken it. This direction won’t make the cut for the remix I daresay, but the general groove sounded good at 3am.
Begin Again (not a) Remix snippet 1
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Begin Again (not a) Remix snippet 2
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Apart from that I will be headed off to Vietnam shortly where I hope to get some field recordings and do some editing on the little Acer Aspire One we will be travelling with. Banging Cambodia progressive tech or bust.
Tags: Kris Ko, MP3, Records, Smashbang, Studio
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