Remixing a dance track?!?!??!

Well… computer music magazine are running a competition in their November issue to remix SmartBomb by Sole Claw (aka Myagi).

I downloaded the original (really isn’t my taste unfortunately) and got all the samples off the CM disk and set to work.

I think I’ll never be a remixer – my inclination was to slow it right down and make it more melodic but that just wasn’t possible. In the end I used some tempo-synced Evolve Mutations sounds to add a bit more atmosphere and life but although I think the end result is okay (and quite different from the original) I have a feeling it isn’t going to win…

Still, I’ll refine it over the next few days and see what happens… I might have a brainwave!!!!

Yo… peace out!

Terry.

Different Style

Hi,

Just had some fun mucking about with a slightly different approach to arranging my music.

I usually lay down a piano track with my ideas as a framework and then start to layer things on top - sometimes the piano stays and sometimes it goes. Tonight I started off with more of a ‘pad based’ approach and built it up from there.

The result might not be worth hearing but I had fun anyway!

Cheers,

Terry.

Positive Week!

Hi,

I really need to keep blogging more, been a few days since my last, but I’ve been very very busy (honest!).

I’ve entered a competition on the East West forums and my track, The Tortoise and the Hare, has been downloaded 118 times!!!!

Also, I’ve had CD Baby confirm that digital distribution has started for my latest album, Endless Lives, so that’ll be on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and other stores soon.

And to top it all off, I’ve just had notification that CD Baby have sold a digital copy of my album too – at this rate the album will have gone platinum just before the sun blows up in 5 million years, but that’s not the point!!!!

Going with my family to see Fantastic Mister Fox at a preview tomorrow so I’m sure that’ll be a great start to next week.

Cheers,

Terry.

New blogging tool

Well, new to me anyway. It’s Windows Live Writer, and it allows you to write blog entries on your PC and upload them. Supposedly better than using the WordPress browse interface but time will tell…

I’ll try it for a while and let you know how I get on with it.

Cheers,

Terry.

Planet Rock Radio - about to be Purple-ised

Well.. maybe the title of this blog entry is a bit premature…

Hmm.. well… very premature…..

I’ve just sent off a copy of Endless Lives to Rick Wakeman at Planet Rock Radio, he has a great Saturday morning show that plays some great music.

A friend recently told me…”PMA!! PMA!!” and unless this is some new abbreviation for some female ‘condition’ I think she meant Positive Mental Attitude. So it’s in that spirit that I titled this blog.

Anyway… please think positive thoughts for me and my music as it wings it’s way to Planet Rock and hopefully into the hands of Rick… and with even more hope into his CD player!

Cheers,

Terry.