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The Producer’s Guide To Remixing: How to Pick Tracks, Get the Rights and Still Release Original Music

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Many of the biggest electronic music stars rose to fame because of remixing.

By picking the right tracks, they were able to piggyback on the popularity of new hits or renowned classics, creating a platform for their future original releases. To remix successfully, you need to pick the right record, get the timing right, acquire the rights and add something special to the original. And when your trajectory is on the up, you need to learn to combine it with releasing originals.

In this article we’ll show you how to do all of it.

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Premiere: Genetic Funk & Michelle Weeks ‘Love Life’ (Michele Chiavarini Remix – Radio Edit)

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Grounded Records return with a superb remix pack of Genetic Funk’s popular soulful smash, ‘Love Life’, featuring the ever brilliant Michelle Weeks. Lending his musical wizardry is Italian maestro Michele Chiavarini, who has created a wondrous slab of Disco driven House, armed with some serious key work and beautifully penned strings set to an irresistibly funky bass groove. Grounded’s boss Genetic Funk switches the tone and cranks up the cool thermostat, creating a brooding dub ripe for the deeper, smouldering late night floors.

We are premiering the Radio Edit of Michele Chiavarini’s remix, which you can stream below:

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Premiere: Kristine Blond ‘Love Shy’ (Sam Divine & CASSIMM Remix)

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Known to fill out clubs with their signature sound, Sam Divine and CASSIMM drop their remix of “‘Love Shy”’.

Packed with infectious summer beats and driving synth stabs, this rendition of Kristine Blond’’s original is a dance floor belter that will make your body move from beginning to end.

Long associated with Defected Records, Sam Divine has has become a key component of the house music scene flourishing out of Great Britain onto the the clubs of Ibiza. A radio show host, label owner, producer and DJ, Sam has toured all over Europe as well as South America, Australia, Japan and Dominican Republic, with festival highlights including We Are FSTVL, Creamfields, V Festival and Extrema Festival and residencies at several key White Isle clubs such as Ushuaia, Amnesia & Sankeys Ibiza. She is joined by CASSIMM for this remix project, which you can find for purchase on Beatport starting today.

Listen to the full remix premiere below:
 

 

Purchase Kristine Blond ‘Love Shy’ (Sam Divine & CASSIMM Remix) via Beatport

Connect with Sam Divine: Facebook | Twitter | SoundCloud

Connect with CASSIMM: Facebook | Twitter | SoundCloud

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Finding and Winning Competitions for DJs and Producers

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Guest post by Eric Louis

Whether you’re an aspiring DJ, producer or both, competitions are a great way to hone your craft and get noticed. The nature of competitions forces you to do two important things: you have a deadline so you have to get your work done in a set time frame, and you have to put something out there for the world to hear.

Winners of these competitions usually get a release on known labels and other prizes like Dj/production related software and hardware, as well as exposure that could translate into new bookings and opportunities.

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The 12 (Possibly) Most Jaw-Dropping Radiohead Remixes Of All Time

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Radiohead, a ban so iconic and yet often only superficially appreciated that many have failed to recognized how they were, for at least a large period of time, the world’s biggest political band — the word’s most woke band.

To understand Radiohead one has to know their roots. The band formed in 1985 at Abingdon School, an elite private institution in the heart of the English countryside county of Oxfordshire. Their privileged early life influenced the band in ways it wouldn’t with others: the five members — Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Ed O’Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass), and Phil Selway (drums, percussion, backing vocals) — bonded over a common spirit of rebellion and radicalism, and translated those feelings to their music in impeccable fashion. The band’s anti-establishment roots further developed during the late 80’s period of indie expression, the same post-punk movement that took a decisive stance against Western (especially in Britain) conservatism and big corporation.

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Premiere: AFFKT Remixes Henry Saiz’s ‘For Days and Nights’

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At the beginning of November 2016, Spanish producer Henry Saiz released For Days and Nights, an EP on his own Natura Sonoris imprint featuring his live band singer Eloy. Saiz created two different tracks using the same vocals but giving them a different approach, showcasing his penchant for sonic exploration in house music and finally making the work available following a successful Boiler Room debut last year.

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Free Download: CW/A ‘Disquieting’ (Metrist Remix)

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You may know CW/A as Italian producers Thomas Feriero and Francesco Leali, the minds behind Avatism, Clockwork and Opus 3000, as well as for their extensive release and remix list on labels such as Parachute, R&S, Decca and Vakant. In fact, they have been spearheading the work on Parachute in tandem with Life & Death chief DJ Tennis since 2013, all the while of course remaining prolific on the studio and on tour under their other aliases.

Last year they released their first full-length album, Words Unspoken, Acts Undone. Now, a special remix EP is being released on October 14th containing  two reworks of tracks from the album, courtesy of Parachute label-mate Metrist and Italian Workdiscs’ Simbiosi:

01. Disquieting (Metrist Remix)
02. Rainer Has No Shadow (Simbiosi Remix)

You can download the Metrist remix here via XLR8R.

CW/A are also on the cusp of releasing Ringleader. The duo drew inspiration from the current world concerns about mass surveillance and cyber spying, with Ringleader aiming to be “an audible interpretation of big data, ubiquitous connections and the acceptance of corporate and government spying.”

Out on December 16th, the album will contain the following original productions:

A1. BlatSting
2/A2. EligibleCandidate
3/A3. HiddenTemple
4/B1. ContainmentGrid
5/B2. 1212/DEHEX
6/B3. BPatrol

H/T: XLR8R

KiNK and Kölsch To Remix Two Sven VĂ€th Early 90’s Classics

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Cocoon is set to release a two-track EP on April 15th containing remixes of timeless Sven VÀth tracks by none other than KiNK and Kölsch.

KiNK, top-notch Bulgarian producer listed as #1 on Resident Advisor’s poll for Best Live Acts of 2015, is poised to put his signature on 1992’s “Accident in Paradise,” while Kölsch is remixing “Robot” from the 1994 LP The Harlequin, The Robot And The Ballet-Dancer. Both tracks saw plenty of dance floor play at Omen, the Frankfurt club VĂ€th was part-owner of until its closure in 1998 and were originally released on Eye Q Records, the imprint he started together with Matthias Hoffmann and Heinz Roth.

Whereas KiNK’s influence turns “Accident in Paradise” into a true acid-influenced re-work, Kölsch’s product has a bigger more energetic sound. Both remixes clock in at well over 9 minutes without feeling drawn out.

You can listen to both clips on Wordandsound.

Source: Resident Advisor

Kerri Chandler Remixes Lupe Fuentes’ “1000 Watts” Track

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8c444a3fc05af6b24ba3af9f440d19c9.1375812185“It was an absolute pleasure to work with someone who I feel is going to be around for a very long time and is also a great friend. This is only the beginning!” – Kerri Chandler 

Deep house master Kerri “Kaoz” Chandler is in the swing of things with a shiny new set of remixes for Lupe Fuentes’ fire track 1000 Watts. The track comes in two versions, a vocal mix and a dub mix, each with a distinct level of Kerri Chandler’s signature deepness. The release comes courtesy of In The Loop Recordings, headed by Lupe Fuentes herself.  Read more

DJ Koze Remixes Underworld’s “I Exhale”

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kozeSelected from Underworld’s upcoming album Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future, DJ Koze’s remix of “I Exhale” is nothing short of weird and funky in signature thumping DJ Koze style. The track is the first single taken from the new album, which will be released on March 18 amidst Underworld’s international tour across Europe, the US, and Japan this year. Read more