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You Got Your Cover in My Remix! You Got Your Remix in My Cover!
opinion by | zhiam kamvar As an electronic artist who enjoys al covers, and DEVO covers elect to apply es into sound on the sixth movement of
A short while ago, a friend of mine making the occasional remix, I feel that the latter theory into the mix. Sometimes, TBH:LAATOwsrbDJP). Another good ex-
had heard Scooter’s rendition of the Super- it is necessary to be able to differentiate using the ‘do it different’ approach works ample of using the track as a whole for re-
tramp classic, “The Logical Song” on the between these three techniques of sound (DEVO, “Satisfaction”). Other times it just mixing is the album “Motown: Remixed”
radio in England. If you are not familiar creation/manipulation. I will be relying on kind of falls flat (Marilyn Manson, “Sui- that featured several tracks of remixed and
with this version or even Scooter, then con- my conversation with a freind on July 20, cide is Painless”). They are always tricky. reworked songs using mainly the original
gratulations, you probably care about more 2008, conducted through facebook, for the I would like to reiterate my point, recordings and outtakes from the record-
important matters. In short: Scooter is a 3 majority of this article. which is that I consider the track a cover ing sessions to find new hooks and melo-
member electro band that plays, you guessed There is some merit in calling it with a sample embedded into it and my dies to bring into the limelight.
it, electro/techno. In 2002, the released an a remix. Through manipulation, a remix- friend considers the track a remix that uses There is, however, one fairly reli-
album entitled “24 Carat Gold” that con- ing if you will, of the tracks original vo- very little of the original source material. able way to distinguish between a remix and
tained a song called “The Logical Song” as cals (which I assume he did as opposed to Remixes that use very little original source a cover. Most remixes will appear on singles
the second track. This was the track that my recording new ones), he was able to obtain material are still remixes nonetheless (Not of the song that is being remixed and will
friend heard on the radio. a new and unfamiliar sound in the realm of Jeremy Jones, “Sunday Drive (Ashbury have in the title of the song the word “mix”.
It begins with a synth pad under Supertramp songs. It is my own personal Townsend’s “five cigarettes, two lucky There are some variations to this as well,
some chipmunk-esque vocals of the first four bias that prevents me from realizing this mix”) as well as countless Aphex Twin ‘re- and it ultimately depends on what the artist
lines to Supertramp’s Logical Song and then as a remix since he only used the vocals mixes’), but give me qualms for the fact feels like calling it.
goes into the same generic techno stuff you’ve and what seems to be nothing else from the that the whole piece of work is not strictly Overall, remixes and covers both
heard with the guy yelling random things off track. When everything else is manufac- a reworking, coaxing, and nudging of the overlap in their overall goal (from a ex-
of his grocery list. In any case, there is some tured, a song starts creeping into the hazy virgin sounds. That is what I think a remix tremely cut down, minimalist perspective),
debate between my friend and I on the classi- world of the cover. In the cover world there should be. which is to revisit an already established
fication of this track. My friend insists that it is are three ways to go about it. You can rec- If you listen to the Buttface EP work of music. The means are simply dif-
a techno remix of the original track and I make reate the song exactly how it sounds (al- and Teargassed By Hookers: Live at ATO ferent. So I would say that this is simply a
claims that it is either a cover or a different song most any cover of “Anarchy in the UK”), with six remixes by DJ Poopslice, you matter of preference as opposed to who is
that relies heavily on a sample. Of course, this do it with different mixing and syncopation will find that only one of the tracks con- right and who is wrong. Yes, Scooter’s Logi-
is something that can not be taken lightly, so I (Metallica’s Garage Inc.), or just do it com- tains material that did not come from the cal Song is a remix. Scooter’s Logical Song
present to you an analysis of the fundamental pletely different (Chuck D, “Wake Up The first recording (I used a color-note organ is, in another context, a cover. And that’s all
differences between remixes and covers. Sleeping Giant”). Most techno covers, met- to convert pictures of the Hookers’ fac- I have to say about that.
Faith, Violence, & Margarine
opinion by | joey puricelli
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There was (and still is) this pop- person can give a false confession. Any
ular idea that beliefs can be “spread by cynic without convictions can go through
the sword.” Muslim conquerors, Chris- the motions of belief to fool a nutjob zealot.
tian crusaders, Roman lion pits, & even That, however, does NOT mean that one has
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gunblade, agreed to burn incense at the al- ments of spreading belief. The only thing
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4 | the monitor
21 august 2008
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