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Interview with CalendarGirl

spinmeister — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:55:50 GMT

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."

the WAIT is over

spinmeister — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:14:04 GMT

I just posted a new original song from my collaboration project "a minor theory". My musical partner "Vox" (who appropriately enough does the singing) and I collaborate over the Internet without ever having met in person. As we do for all of our songs, we'll be posting remix packs for this song over the next couple of days. There's more about how we met and stuff at our web site. If you should happen to visit our site, don't forget to listen to some of the remixes of our first three songs as well - including some awesome remixes by some amazingly talented mi7 members.

the story of abell

spinmeister — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:44:25 GMT

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.

Abell - distant galaxy mix (remixing c.layne)

spinmeister — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:06:05 GMT

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.

Always Maybe (Calendar Sisters Mix)

spinmeister — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:15:29 GMT

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.

Moments in Space

spinmeister — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:22:09 GMT

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. :-)

a wonderful afternoon

spinmeister — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:40:57 GMT

http://blog.emxr.com/2007/09/wonderful-afternoon.html

RSS in plain English

spinmeister — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:31:37 GMT

I finally found a decent and quick explanation for RSS: RSS in plain English.

review of ccMixter.org

spinmeister — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:22:55 GMT

I’ve posted a first impressions review of ccMixter at my eMXR blog.

Dream In BlueContest Remixes

spinmeister — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:40:23 GMT

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.

remixing Salman Ahmad - Natchoongi - Karachi Radio Mix

spinmeister — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:02:28 GMT

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 :-)

Dream In Blue Remix pack now availabl;e in FLAC format

spinmeister — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:21:27 GMT

I just got around to doing some testing of FLAC, a very useful format for lossless audio compression, especially for people needing to ship audio files back and forth in the context of musical collaborations or remixes. As a result, I created FLAC versions of all of the "a minor theory" remix packs including the one for Dream In Blue featured in the current mi7 contest.

free sources for cover art

spinmeister — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:19:34 GMT

A quick compilation of free sources for cover art and a few related links over at my other blog.

a minor theory Dream In Blue remix contest at mi7

spinmeister — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:39:14 GMT

We are honored to have MI7.com host a remix contest featuring our song "Dream In Blue"

about Static Attraction

spinmeister — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:37:25 GMT

Static Attraction is one of the songs from my a minor theory project, an long distance online collaboration with Vox. As with all of our songs, a remix pack is available at our site under a creative commons license, for anyone, who wants to create an alternative or just make it better :-)