remixing fatboy slim and having issues with content....

[hiroprotagonist]

i decided that i would take this as a personal challenge to recreate something dark and soul-less sounding from a typical fatboy slim track. i went to work last night for the first time in a year writing music.
after horrendously tearing apart all of mr. slims' samples and giving myself a good base i began forming a new percussion section from snippets of his samples. after creating some nice hits and percussive noises i found myself and the original samples really lacking in the punch i really wanted for my track.
heres where i hit an ethical dilemma. i added some sequenced soft synth lines to beef up the BD and the snare. then i went and plucked out a halfway decent bassline to follow suit.
my problem is that i want to really confine myself to only using the samples i was given and see where it can get me. i dont plan on entering this into the contest but i feel guilty having to resort to alternate sound sources.

your thoughts?

[MangaFish]

i thought the samples were pretty shit. there was only a couple that i though i could make any use of

[hiroprotagonist]

agreed. i didnt go into this thinking i would make anything with a simple 4 beat techno rhythm. by mangling the samples ive come up with a pretty decent range of experimental glitches and FX. add those to echoy pads and nice glitchy percussion i have the makins of a nice experimental track.
the samples are crap though. i found myself wondering how he makes hit after hit with samples like that. that cant be all there is to it.

can it???

[Evil G]

a guy named simon thorton actually has a lot more to do with the production of fat boy slim's tracks than norman cook does. i'm sure he processes the hell out of the crappy samples given to him.

[jesus]

yeha all the samples are shit. most just seem to be nicked loops, and the actually synth bits are wank. done a remix though ill post tomorrow .

[slavestudios]

i finished my FBS remix tonite.... only used his samples & got a real nasty broken beat track rollin...

used Sound Forge 6 & Acid Pro 4 & nowt else.. just overloaded the **** outta any loops i picked out & drenched the synth parts in reverb & pitched them down 3 octaves to create crunchy background noise...

great little exercise..


god knows what he'll think of it.. think Mayhem Men v BMB


also remixed NIN, L7, The Prodigy, Luke Vibert... got my code for a Stigmata remix as well & then theres the Orbital remix in Future Music this month..

REMIX A GO-GO :lol:

[hiroprotagonist]

lets hear it ;)

[loopdon]

i finished my FBS remix tonite.... only used his samples & got a real nasty broken beat track rollin...

used Sound Forge 6 & Acid Pro 4 & nowt else.. just overloaded the **** outta any loops i picked out & drenched the synth parts in reverb & pitched them down 3 octaves to create crunchy background noise...

great little exercise..


god knows what he'll think of it.. think Mayhem Men v BMB


also remixed NIN, L7, The Prodigy, Luke Vibert... got my code for a Stigmata remix as well & then theres the Orbital remix in Future Music this month..

REMIX A GO-GO :lol:

errh, stigmata remix. iz you talkin abot that ableton live mix-set thingie?
because i don't know about any other competition regarding the stigmata topic. or have i missed something?