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December 2, 2008 
version 4: october 15, 2008. almost there… stay on target…
1 Comment He is Faux Pas
parts of sound arrange into musakedelica
1 Comment version 3: october 4, 2008. four days later.
version 2: september 30, 2008. five days later. i sit down for another couple of hours. cue the four to the floor.
inquiet is a lovely chap named sam who founded melbourne’s rad diy label brothersister records with a bunch of his talented friends. i asked sam if i could remix a song from the record that he just put out - which is called “inq beyong”, by the way, and is really accomplished and good - and he said sure, so thats one of the things i’ve been working on lately.
i thought i’d do something new here on the blog, something i haven’t done before. its probably pretty obvious listening to the end result, but my music is iterations on iterations on iterations. thats not unusual, and potentially not very interesting either.. but lets see anyway. i keep a pretty good record of the way songs mutate as i work on them. my creative process with music is very much, um, every couple of days throw some new shit at the wall, and eventually you end up with a wall covered in shit, and hopefully it sticks and starts to smell rosy. often its just shit.
ANYWAY over the next couple of weeks i’m going to post up five different versions of my inquiet remix, starting with the results of my very first sit-down with the project, and then ending with a “finished product”… as finished as anything i do ever is (here’s a hint: it never is). not to say that i’m the wizard of oz, but this does feel a bit like opening the curtain and letting you see my hideous inner workings - its not necessarily pretty but maybe someone will appreciate it. it might be interesting to track where the different parts of the song move in each iteration, hear some of the differences in the mixing and arrangement as the track changes, and get a bit of an idea of how i work. that is, if you are a massive nerd.
ok. so, lets start with - version 1: september 25, 2008, which is about a month ago. i’ve been listening to sam’s record for a couple of weeks since its release and getting really excited about wanting to play with some parts. so i sit down for a couple of hours, record some guitar, dig out some parts from an old bread track, and this comes together. also in the mix at this point - a fleetwood mac drum machine, and some ethereal sounds from thin lizzy (you’d never pick either sample, its fair to say)…