Here are a couple more remixes and an original track and the stories of how they've come to life.
Getting Smokes was a part of the Sonny Moore Dating Simulator soundtrack (One acronym: Lmfao). One day the people who ran the game, profile etc asked me if I was up to remixing it. I couldn't turn it down of course so I went through it's process. I got inspired by classical music, LSDream and one of Porter Robinson's old tracks (I'm on fire) and made an dubsteppish electro house and orchestral track, nothing too special here.
Little did I know this was going to be the most stressful thing I've done music wise.
For a remix that was supposed to be for a silly game ended up being the most greuling out of them all. I stayed up for a lot of late nights, had finals, tests and a stupid amount of homework being thrown at me in the process and I was probably at my lowest during this time.
The remix of Dieswyx's Insert Coin Again was made in the summer before the first mini hiatus (2 weeks iirc) from music, I took a wild turn and mashed together a ton of genres, pulling elements from videogame soundtracks,psytrance, techno, rock, throwing tribal elements in it and some other niche subgenres. I even did a genre I've never made before which was hardwave. The mixing is a bit off due to me not being able to hear the playback well on my old computer, which was crackling, lagging and all that junk. With the new one I probably could clean up the mixing a bit more, maybe sometime later.
The Evacuation remix was made a month after the Insert Coin again remix and guess how I got the inspiration? Telling my friend who made it that it sounded like pirate music and decided to make it pirate themed, can't forget the silly pirate Dialogue. Shiver me timbers! I got inspired by a lot of movie soundtracks such as pirates of the carribean, avatar, etc and folk music and let it guide my hand in the form of making psytrance and dubstep.
Like the last one, I had a ton of technical difficulties working with this one, from the computer crashing, crackling and just a bunch of other complications I can't list from the top of my head. After this remix I ended up finding my love for the accordion.
The most recent one, Zoned Out was made shortly after the Evacuation remix, originally for Dj Chidow's 40 years of House Collab, thanks @troisnyx and @bbank for letting me know about this event. This was actually meant to be made all the way in January when my buddy @SivKyne sent some vocals over as a test run. Knowing myself, i obviously wanted to do something bigger than that and I was already bogged with a bunch of stuff already. After all that stuff was cleared, I was incredibly drained, still kept going and did those 2 previous remixes anyway.
However, the process of making this track was very funny.
When I was notified about this and started on the project (for the love of your sanity tape chill out, eat something and sit down somewhere!) it was near the time I were to go to a week long football camp and the deadline was due in a week! You know good and well I'm not gonna say imma do something than back down the last second. So my crazy self snuck my laptop to the camp and worked on it on some cheap headphones, late into the night and when we were free. Around the beginning it wasn't looking too pretty but then in the back of my head I remembered I had some vocals to experiment with, and therefore I got to playing around with Siv's vocals and using it as a synth.
Afterwards I was making some good progress. When i got home I saw a light at the end of the tunnel and got it relatively cleaned up to be part of the mix, I had more ideas even after it was posted and this was around the time I had my laptop sent to the repair store for 3 months! Thankfully the old thing was messed up beyond repair and got a better one, which meant I could hear the mix 10x more clearly! The moment I got everything set I went back to the project and made it even better than it was before. Added more variation such as the accordion, sick leads, and more things to make it sound nicer.
