808's Extended Mixes: October 2016

Sunday, October 23, 2016

J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame (808's Double Exposure Mix

This is my first blog post in years. This was also my first extended remix that I have done in about the same amount of time. I recently have had some of my extended mega mixes played on the local college radio station WUTK 90.3 here in Knoxville, TN, on a Friday night show called the 80's rock off. One such megamix included my own custom version of this classic song from the J. Geils Band.

This track never got an officially sanctioned remix, so I decided to have a go at it. For this one, I used the original track and an instrumental, bounced out the vocals, and added some swirl effects and some editing tricks to make it sound like a classic 80's extended mix.

Now that I have found a legit way to host these remixes (through legitmix.com) you will likely see more posts from me than you have in the past.

This mix clocks in at 6 minutes and three seconds.

Listen to this mix on legitmix.com

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Blowing off the dust ...

Those of you who may notice this page hasn't been updated in awhile ... with good reason. My mixes had to be taken offline due to copyright reasons. But that is going to change ... I have found a new legal way of hosting my mixes, http://www.legitmix.com ... I will be putting up all my old material real soon, along with some new tracks. Stay tuned!

DISCLAIMER - PLEASE READ

The music posted in this blog is for PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY. Copyrights remain with the original copyright holder. This means, you can't sell it for profit or otherwise release it without authorization from the original copyright holder.

These mixes are (or will soon be) all available on legitmix.com. To download these, you will first need to purchase the original source track from iTunes, you will then be able to download the mix from legitmix.com. This is to ensure compliance with copyright law.

HOW MY MIXES ARE DONE

I use the following software:

SONIC FOUNDRY ACID: For editing, cutting, splicing, and crossfading elements of the mix together.

NERO WAVE EDITOR: For isolating vocals, the karaoke filter in this program is amazing.

AUDACITY: For any additional editing the finished mix might need.

Usually, I will take several sources to a song (different mixes, or an instrumental) and splice these together. Where there is an instrumental I will usually use that to source an acapella from the original mix. Sometimes I will get wild and add flange effects, or even other percussive sounds, to the mix as well.