Error404 - Goodlife Bootleg

[acidguru]

Not my cup of tea..

[Little_Fella!]

Listened to this a while ago at home...

I do like the groove you got going which has a real techno vibe to it - - nice bass... production coming through nicely, although was tidying at the time so no specifics apart from it being nice and clean (I'm sure my memory serves me)...

I think you should take the vocal away more and use it with the groove... show the groove off more as this is what makes the tune, giving it it's character and not the vocals, for me anyways...

At the moment it's like someone playing Good Life mixed in to another record... warping the vocals to the shape of the bass groove would add to the sweep of the tune giving that extra swing of the hip on the dancefloor...

It's good so far but I feel it should have it's own identity and not be smothered in bootleg principle...

Like I always say, just a personal viewpoint so don't hate me...! heh heh

[ERROR404]

I think there is definately weight in what you're saying although I don't really agree.
The principal of a bootleg as far as i'm concerned is a 'illegal' remix if you will, rather than a sampler track. I didn't want this to be just another track sampling the melody and banging along on another tangent for 4 minutes, using the original track's melody as a hook line as many others have already done. My take on it was to use the basic elemtnets of the original track, to try to retain some of the original structure to a certain extent and to keep the "feel" of it whilst bringing the "sound" up date.
The principal was to make this accessible and subtle without being just another thoughtless 4/4 crowd pleaser.

[Little_Fella!]

I think there is definately weight in what you're saying although I don't really agree.
The principal of a bootleg as far as i'm concerned is a 'illegal' remix if you will, rather than a sampler track. I didn't want this to be just another track sampling the melody and banging along on another tangent for 4 minutes, using the original track's melody as a hook line as many others have already done. My take on it was to use the basic elemtnets of the original track, to try to retain some of the original structure to a certain extent and to keep the "feel" of it whilst bringing the "sound" up date. The principal was to make this accessible and subtle without being just another thoughtless 4/4 crowd pleaser.

I feel you have done what you set out to do very well and this track has much more of it's own identity than sooo much of the remix mush that's even legally put out there...

I just feel that you could tip the balance even more towards the identity of the mix you have created, which just as a personal veiwpoint is all important, by showing off the groove a bit more in the ways I have mentioned...

So yeah, am thinking you can get even more out of what is essentially one of the few good bootlegs of this particular track...