Daft Punk | Something About Us (Change Request ReVision)

For this ReVision, I went after one of the less obvious hits from the French outfit. It’s always been a song of theirs that I have listened to more than any other. It’s a great example of subtle simplicity in harmonic motion and songwriting. 

“Something About Us” is the sixth and final single off of Daft Punk’s LP, Discovery, from 2001. This song was also featured as a promotional item for the feature film—Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem—from 2003. 

Beyond its use to score the animated love story of Shep and Stella from the film, its universal notions of unrequited love is a timeless plot within the context of the human emotional experience. 

I recreated this with the standard orchestration the original calls for plus adding additional parts, rearranging the sections, and allowing the few instrumental part more room to spatially breath—by programming my drums around them, instead of affixing them on top of the groove—something I always wished the original did. 

This was produced with @EventideAudio effects processing, including UltraReverb, SP2016 Reverb, Instant Phaser Mk II, and the H3000 Factory plugin version of the legendary hardware unit.

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Daft Punk | Something About Us (Change Request ReVision)

Andrew Emil // Change Request 

A preeminent artist of Chicago's 3rd wave, Andrew Emil is one of house music’s most staunch stalwarts. A concert-trained percussionist since age 11, he earned a chair in his native Kansas City Symphony before eventually moving to Chicago. 

As a traditional musician, Andrew Emil has worked as a keyboardist, arranger, and an orchestrator on recording sessions and productions, cutting his teeth at the former Chicago Trax Recording Studios. 

Credited on over 200+ recordings, his composition and studio productions have ranged from concert works and sound design to film scoring stages and hundreds of releases of electronic music productions. 

After a life in live music performance, from orchestra percussion sections to punk rock ensembles, he crafted a reputation for House Music productions in Chicago under his own name, as well as Broadway & Wilson, and Uptown Tones. 

One of the earlier innovators of the “Jackin House” genre under the Broadway & Wilson moniker with Jeff Bloom, Andrew is never content to stay in one place or style of musical thought for very long. 

He is the only recording artist to do production work simultaneously for Derrick Carter’s Classic Music Company, Mark Farina’s Great Lakes Audio, Gene Farris’ Farris Wheel Recordings, and four-time GRAMMY nominee Steve “Silk” Hurley’s S&S Records.

A string of double-digit singles for prominent labels, including remixes for artists such as Common, Kanye West, Little Louie Vega, Jamie Principle, Steve "Silk" Hurley, Iz & Diz, Fast Eddie, Shalamar, Roland Clark, David Morales, Colette, Amp Fiddler, JT Donaldson, and Gene Farris, to name a few. 

2012 saw the emergence of his epithet, Change Request, with the Change Theory EP on four play music. This new persona allowed the freedom to explore hybrids of mid-tempo live instrument focused jazz-dance-fusion. 

Following this release was “After All” on Seasons Recordings, with another single thereafter featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”, including a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground, on Glenview Records. 

The ever-growing collection of songs and musical dialogue eventually led to the conceptual album series from Change Request. Each full-length effort containing a completely separate story and scored via its own unique incidental subtext. 

Emil created AstraVox Music with the award-winning Los Angeles-based composer, Mr. Nathaniel, as a home for his increasing catalog of incidental dramatic musical compositions. 

www.andrewemil.com