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Here's the link and teaser to an interview I've conducted on behalf of ccMixter with the talented, intelligent, gracious and funny Calendar Girl:

"In October 2006, singer song-writer Tamara Barnett-Herrin from London in the UK published a one sentence challenge to herself and to remixers around the World Wide Web: “I write one song a month. You remix and feedback. We make a record.” This experiment in songwriting and remix culture unlike any other yielded over 300 remixes, setting a new record at ccMixter. Twelve of them have been chosen to be published in an album titled Calendar Songs Volume I due out May 26 (check calendarsongs.com). Known to the ccMixter community as Calendar Girl, she has graciously agreed to an interview with ccMixter." 

which was the inspiration for the song by c.layne, which I ended up remixing. It is one of the more amazing discoveries in astronomy. 

I found this mesmerizing a cappella by c.layne over at ccMixter and had some fun with it and just uploaded the resulting remix here at mi7 as well. 

 Licensed under creative commons attribution, non-commercial.

I just uploaded my take (downloadable at ccMixter.org) of a great pop song by CalendarGirl of ccMixter.org fame.

This remix is quite different than the original.

Featuring the guitar work of my friend The RichMiester from my jam band.

Licensed under a Creative Commons License

For anyone who wants to create a remix around the vocal harmonies, you can get just my vocal submix.

I had a little fun with DJ Rkod's Space-Based Utopia:

My first go at remixing something entirely instrumental / ambient where traditional notions of what constitutes a song are a bit less obvious. So to make it clear that it's a remix of a given piece, rather than an original work with a few samples from a sample pack, I kept the song structure close to the original, and used almost all of the original sample files. Added a couple of subtle musical homages, and some snippets from a 1953 BBC radio play I found on archive.org (Journey into Space3 91 08 02 World in Peril 07 ).

Mashed up the whole thing through a few compressors and filters and this is what came out. I hope DJ_Rkod approves. :-)

I just wanted to write a quick note to explain, that I'm refraining from commenting publicly on the remixes to the Dream in Blue remix contest until after the voting is over. 

But let me say, that I'm amazed at the imagination and skill of the various remixes submitted so far. It keeps confirming that remixing is a wonderful way to make music. While it obviously is  musical production work, it also feels a little like time-shifted jamming. 

I'll comment on individual remixes after the voting deadline.

Since I can't very well participate in the Dream In Blue remix contest, I tried my hand at remixing something from ccMixter.org. Any comments from my valued friends at mi7 are welcome!

For now I have that remix in the mi7 player, but since there is a maxiumum of 5 songs here, it may get pushed off my newer stuff.  So here are links to the permanent homes for my remix and  the original version. 

Remixer Notes: 

 This remix was originally born from imagining this song being performed in concert with Salman leading plenty of audience participation in a three-way question/response format between the singers, the instrumentalists and the audience. However for this remix I ended up using a “Radio” effect to distinguish between the two vocal groups.

In a real live concert setting - or for a serious dance hall mix, the song could easily be 7-10 minutes or even longer with lots of jamming and audience interaction. However tempting that was, I thought it might be kinder to the listeners here to keep it to a more modest 4 minutes :-)

This is a fun little homage to Edvard Grieg, which I made a couple of years ago. While using dramatically different instrumentation, I tried  to stay rather true to the spirit of the original "Hall of the Mountain King": Starting slow and gently, and working its way to a fast and semi-chaotic ending.

It's called the Berlin Mix, because it was home to Karajan as well as the Love Parade.

One of my musical projects is "a minor theory" (see link below), a long distance collaboration with "vox", whom I met at realworldremixed.com. Since we met through remixing, it only made sense to make remix packs of our songs available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licensing at our site. As of this writing there are 7 fabulous remixes of our first two songs. 

So if you're looking to remix something with much more liberal licensing than the famous people, by all means, have a go at one or more of our songs. 

And if anyone reading this makes remix packs of some of their original work available under a creative commons style licensing, I'd love to hear from you, so I can include a little write-up and link in my blog.