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I used to do it more than I do now. Sometimes on my radio show, I'll take well known songs and run them though a process. On the most recent episode, I did a time-stretch of the chorus from Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance", then later had Led Zeppelin's "Battle of Evermore" backwards, and Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" at 1/2 speed. (the link is http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com) I'm a big fan of time compress & time stretch. (The former makes a sound shorter without changing the pitch by taking tiny little slices out of the audio. The latter stretches out a sound by repeating tiny slices of the audio.) One of my favorite things to do is to bring a song down to half speed, then time-compress it to its original length. The song is totally recognizeable, but the rhythm gets noticeably changed, due to the bits taken out. Another thing I do is to time-compress a song until it's only 20 or 30 seconds long (by doing it repeatedly at 3% intervals), then time-stretch it back to the original length. That creates a nice weird thing where you still get the chord structure of the original song, but in a way that sounds completely digitally f'ed up. On the 6/20 episode, I did a thing to Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop till you Get Enough", where I pitched it down into a few different keys, and had different versions overlapping at the same time. Towards the end I did some noise gating, so only the rhythmic peaks are heard. When I do actual remixes (which as I mentioned earlier, is pretty rare these days), I often just treat the original record as source material and compose something new with it - there's no intention for it to sound like the original. I'll also use elements from different songs. The last one I did was for Michael Peters' "Stretched Landscape Remix Project" (http://veloopity.bandcamp.com/album/stretched-landscape-remix-project). -- Matt Davignon mattdavignon@gmail.com www.ribosomemusic.com Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello, everybody! Are any of you remix artists? People who take existing > (usually popular) > recordings, and sample and loop over them? Almost all my life, I've > treated remix artists like > looping artists, because of their use of looping. Most remix artists are > a type of looping artist, in my > opinion. Are there any remixers here? > Tyler Z >