I know I haven’t even released the official version yet, but I was mucking around last night and put together this little remix - in other words, stripped out most of the guitars and drums, stuck in a drum machine and some synthesizers, tweaked everything a bit, and voila!

Download it here for free: Images of Bliss - Remix

Should be getting some more of the album proper done this afternoon - had a few weeks off - and Rob will be up in a few weeks, maybe we’ll get the vocals to The Purpose of Man done. We wrote it in like, 1996 or something, and it’s a psychedelic britpop-electro weirdo thing that pretty much sounds like nothing else on the album. Remixing that one will be fun too.

I haven’t blogged much recently - most of it’s been on Twitter and Facebook, haha. Shows what kind of attention span I’m forced to have at work when there’s actual news happening.

Mirrored from Radio Over Moscow.

As a part of the New Zealand Internet Blackout in protest against the ridiculous 'guilt by accusation' law about to come into force (I think it's amazing they've managed to write a law that is both draconian and absolutely toothless at the same time), the folks at Creative Freedom NZ have organised the Copywrong Song: Remix Challenge.

Basically, it's a piece of music by Disasteradio and Mike Corb of which they've uploaded the individual tracks, inviting people to remix it and upload it for others to check out. The song itself is a cheesy but sweet little number about the idiocy and wrongfulness of the law change, so this morning I had a go, and this is what I got (right-click, save as):

Copywrong (luna spark remix - loud master)

Copywrong (luna spark remix - quiet master)

Legal bit:

This song has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand License, which means that it is FREE for you to download, share, copy, distribute, sell, remix, and sample provided that you:

Attribute the work to the Creative Freedom Foundation including the url http://creativefreedom.org.nz
Share Alike: If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work but remember that other people get to remix your work too!

EDIT: In a grand piece of irony, MySpace won't let me use a black square as the icon for the song, claiming: "There was an error: "Photos may not contain nudity, violent or offensive material, or copyrighted images. If you violate these terms your account will be deleted."

WTF?!

The other morning I got my hands on the new Nine Inch Nails remix album (I'm not going to try and remember its ridiculous official title), with all the multitrack files, and had a go at remixing Survivalism. And here it is (right click, save). It's a bit rough, for sure, I only spent just over an hour on it, the whole time grinning like a monkey. If I get some spare time in the near future, I might have a serious go at doing some more of the album. It's great working with well-recorded tracks and a vocalist who's on the money.

As of the start of next year, I'm going to be releasing one track a month from my re-recording of 2003's Panic. If I get bored with that album, I might switch to some of the better tracks from Countdown to Meltdown - give some of the better songs a proper go. All my new-song-writing powers are going into KittyHawk basslines at the moment, as few as they may be at the moment.