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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Everything Shatters
This remix was created in 2006 for a music contest sponsored by Sony; at that time they were selling a remixing tool for musicians and every week a different band was promoting their albums by delivering one specific song in separate tracks for us to come back with an original reinterpretation.
Not to be confused with a cover, a remix is a different kind of animal. When I cover a certain song I am expected to play it in almost its entirety, preserving most of its characteristics but with subtle changes in rhythm or nuances related with my own style of interpretation; whereas in a remix, just a few tracks could be preserved -but to be chopped and altered in original ways and combined with completely different, non-related tracks and grooves.
As a visual example, my cover of the Mona Lisa could be my painting of a near copy of the original -in my style- where its root concept can be easily recognized, but my remix would be a collage made with pieces of photos and photocopies of the original artwork, ripped and pasted in a different sequence, over a base material that has no resemblance to the original piece of art.
The tracks for this contest were provided by a band named “8MM”.
In the reference song, the female chorus cheerfully goes:
”…I could be your Everything if you let me, if you let me…” and I found that proposition quite disturbing, more so because her cheery way was sort of masking her realization that she could cease to be if she is not everything for her loved one - and at the same time, ironically, being everything for someone else would mean being nothing for and by herself…
So I moved that chorus right to the end of my mix, slowed down her tempo a bit, and dynamically lowered the pitch of her voice across the phrase, to make her sound like a painful plead that -no matter her lover’s decision- means the end of her. The rest of the remix, from the very beginning up to her moaning near the end, is just a very long introduction to the final, supplicant words.
Source: acidplanet.com
