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Change Request ReVision | The Complete Collection

I make these as objective focused etudes in musicianship and sound design. They are practice works in production and writing skills where I recreate/rewrite the entire songs.

Some are tracks that I have always wanted an instrumental for and some are songs I wanted to pull back the technique curtain on, as they are many of my most favorite tracks in the last few decades. As these are representative of my skills in making records, but are not my actual original songs, I give them away for free. 

Reimagined with a variety of different orchestrations, all of these @changerequest ReVisions were created using @waves-audio processing. 

These labors of love offered as FREE DOWNLOADS!

Enjoy! 

Andrew Emil | Change Request

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Change Request ReVision | The Complete Collection

2019

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Dj Sneak - Funky Rhythm (HateLate In The Ghetto Remix)

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Dj Sneak - Funky Rhythm (HateLate In The Ghetto Remix)FREE DOWNLOAD

Released on Traxsource on the 27th October!

Fireflyin

Groove Assassin & Sol Brown feat Selina Campbell - Fireflyin (DJ Spen & Soulfuledge Remix)

Talking Heads - Burning Down The House (Rhythm Scholar & Apollo Zero Remix) + Dub

Rhythm Scholar and Apollo Zero combine forces to remix this 1983 Talking Heads classic! See if you can spot some other Talking Heads samples along the way, along with tons of Galaga! Also… check out the killer live bass by Keith Holden! <3 :D

Galaga Ringtone and Dub mix also available! 
Download: https://www.mediafire.com/file/96pjm2sc7q652tk/Talking_Heads_Burning_Down_The_House_Rhythm_Scholar_Remixes.zip/file
 
Apollo Zero: @apollozer0 | https://www.facebook.com/ApolloZer0/ | https://hearthis.at/apollozero/
Rhythm Scholar: www.rhythmscholar.com
Bass: Keith Holden | @keithholdenaudio | www.facebook.com/KeithHoldenAudio/

Audio Mastered by The Odd Nocturnal Farmer 

Talking Heads are awesome! If you enjoy this remix, please purchase something from them! :D

Talking Heads - Burning Down The House (Rhythm Scholar & Apollo Zero Remix)

Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly | Before I Let Go (Change Request ReVision)

For this ReVision—my third one from this same group—I chose an iconic song that has had a great influence on me and my artwork throughout my lifetime. Featuring groove-intensive rhythm and blues, combined with a west coast-style songwriting balladry, their sound was something I immediately connected with from the very first time I heard “Joy And Pain” on the radio as a child. 

Often referred to as the “Black Grateful Dead” for their loyal cross-generational fanbase, Maze was formed in San Francisco, California in the late 70s, fronted by the Philly-raised songwriter and former gospel singer, Frankie Beverly. 

Originally called Raw Soul, the group changed their name to Maze upon the recommendation of Beverly’s mentor—as well as a major catalyst for their meteoric ascension in popularity—Marvin Gaye. 

Written and produced by Frankie Beverly and released on their 1981 Live In New Orleans recording, "Before I Let Go”, is the quintessential Maze record. Peaking at number thirteen on the Billboard R&B chart in 1981, this masterpiece would later go on to define the group, achieving iconic status as a cross-generational cultural benchmark of contemporary Black American Music.

“It was about somebody who was really having trouble letting go of something”, states Beverly of the “ode to a love lost” that helped inspire the song's lyrical content. Initially written in a slower tempo, the members of Maze developed the song into the seductive groove that cemented its musical legacy.     

Featuring conventional instrumentation of this era for an R&B ensemble—live percussion, Electric Bass, Guitar, and Fender Rhodes—I replaced the Electric Guitar lead parts with standard polyphonic synth choices for that period, including Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 bright brass pad, layered over a saturated Oberheim OB-X brass tone, for harmonic texture. 

For as much as they have written and recorded timeless songs and records, you really have not fully experienced their spiritual mastery until you've seen Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly live in concert.

Buy ReVision

Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly | Before I Let Go (Change Request ReVision)

Anita Baker | Been So Long (Change Request ReVision)

For this ReVision, I recreated one my mother’s all time favorite artists. She used to have this album on repeat when I was a child and it always stuck with me as the one song on that LP that I would always go back to. 

Rapture, Anita Baker’s second studio album, released in 1986, this album won her two Grammy Awards, with timeless tunes such as "Sweet Love”, "Same Ole Love”, and this track "Been So Long”. 

Written by Baker, this is one of two songs on the album that features her alone as the sole writer, the other being "Watch Your Step”.

Produced by Grammy Award winner Marti Sharron, this track features standard R&B arrangements of the 80s with her decidedly “Quiet Storm” approach to sound design. 

Featuring live drums, live bass, Yamaha DX7 Electric Piano, Fender Rhodes, Polymoog leads, Oberheim OB-X and Prophet 5 brass, I recreated this song with a modern touch on vintage synths. 

Enjoy! 

- Andrew Emil | Change Request

Anita Baker | Been So Long (Change Request ReVision)

Chaka Khan | What Cha' Gonna Do For Me (Change Request ReVision)

The title track of her third solo album, 1981’s What Cha' Gonna Do For Me" was written by Ned Doheny and Hamish Stuart of the Average White Band. They had recorded the song a year earlier and released it on their LP Shine, produced by David Foster, but it was Hyde Park’s Very Own that took this song to another world.

Released on Warner Bros. Records and produced with Arif Mardin, Chaka Khan’s “What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me” has been a top “port of call” of my personal affinity for the early 80s post-disco electric funk. The Queen Of Everything put this song on the map as the first single off the album that would seal her stardom with other iconic tunes, such as "I Know You, I Live You”, and the Stardust-sampled, “Fate”.

Even beyond my Reprise-styled stripped-down take on this, I also continued to lust after this harmonic motion through an original track—Change Request | Ravaged Romance—that was directly inspired by the chordal arrangements that Doheny and Stuart set forth in their original composition. Have a listen to the evolution of this song—through these four versions—including my two interpretations of this all-time classic.

Average White Band | Whatcha' Gonna Do For Me (1980): bit.ly/31bcD2v 
Chaka Khan | What Cha' Gonna Do For Me (1981): bit.ly/31cRZ28 
Chaka Khan | What Cha' Gonna Do For Me (Change Request ReVision)(2018): bit.ly/2VbGcgH 
Change Request | Ravaged Romance (2020): bit.ly/2VcVQs2

Chaka Khan | What Cha' Gonna Do For Me (Change Request ReVision)

Egarrr! provides full on cosmic / disco infused full workout. A cheeky rework on a track of yesteryear, Egarrr! is set to alight dancefloors across the country.

Return Of The Cosmic Bitch

GDR: 003 Edgarrr! - Natasha Kitty Katt ***SNIPPET***

Another GTK Boogie/Disco edit!!

Curtis Hairston - I Want You All Tonight (Get To Know Edit)

Enjoy and make sure you follow my Official SC - @gettoknowuk

This is the official Edits channel for Get To Know. These are my own custom edits I play when I DJ. 

Mgmt - 
aaron@crisp-music.co.uk 
kieran@crisp-music.co.uk

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Curtis Hairston - I Want You All Tonight (Get To Know Edit) FREE DL

Janet Jackson | When I Think Of You (Change Request ReVision)

For this ReVision, I recreated my favorite song off of my favorite album of Ms. Jackson’s. 

Written by Jackson, and her newly adopted two dads: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Already having much success with their recent productions for SOS Band, and a host of the endless talent that Minneapolis was manufacturing at that time—such as Cherrelle and Alexander O’ Neal—this dynamite trio would go on to influence pop music immeasurable over the next three decades, as a team, and individually. 

The third single from Janet Jackson's third studio album, 1986’s Control, “When I Think of You" would be Janet Jackson’s first Billboard Hot 100 Number 1 Hit. 

At just 20 years old, she was the youngest artist since Stevie Wonder to have a Number 1 Billboard Top 100 record, which also made her and brother Michael the first two siblings to both share that accomplishment. 

This song—as well the album Control—features the very early era of Jam and Lewis adapting their Minneapolis Sound of electronic funk—developed alongside former band members, and high school mates, Morris Day, and The Purple One, Mister Jamie Starr—to Pop Music. 

The second single, “Nasty”—with its innovative phrase sampling usage and a unique timpani melody—is widely regarded as the blueprint for the birth of a genre they would ultimately godfather, New Jack Swing. 

I reimagined this song with the standard Minneapolis Orchestrations in play: pitched up LinnDrum, snappy and mid-range Oberheim DX, Moog Bass, and the new editions of early FM Synth sound with the Yamaha DX7, Roland D-50, and 1984’s Roland Super Jupiter, the MKS-80.

Janet Jackson | When I Think Of You (Change Request ReVision)

Glitterball volume 3

This music so good you will work it out on the dancefloor. Enjoy this week's Wind Down

WORK IT OUT WIND DOWN

Another multitrack rebuild. Add new drums, synths and bass, with a lil FX for depth......already tweaked it......lol

Dennis Edwards Ft Siedah Garrett- Don't Look Any Further (Pete's Further Look)

The Jones Girls | Nights Over Egypt (Change Request ReVision)

For this ReVision, I recreated my favorite song from this Detroit-based trio of sisters who were backup singers for many years for artists such as Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls, and Diana Ross, before breaking out on their own to form The Jones Girls. 

Written by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff protege, Dexter Wansel, this song, and arrangement are quintessential Philadelphia music mastery. Dexter, along with Cynthia Biggs, wrote many hits for other artists, including Yellow Sunshine, Instant Funk, Phyllis Hyman, The Jacksons, MFSB, Teddy Pendergrass, Patti Labelle, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Grover Washington Jr., Lou Rawls, and of course, The Jones Girls. 

“Nights Over Egypt” was the second single from their studio album, 1981’s Get as Much Love as You Can, released on Philadelphia International Records. Most songs on this third studio album of theirs are written by TSOP kingpins, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, and the album reached number twenty-five on the Top Soul Albums Chart in the US. 

For this version, I recreated this R&B Classic with Roland’s Jupiter-8, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Live Bass and drums, and the best instrument ever created, the 73 Suitcase Fender Rhodes Electric Piano.

The Jones Girls | Nights Over Egypt (Change Request ReVision)

There's no doubt that DJ Koze's "Pick Up", a monster chunk of sweeping disco-house bliss built around elements borrowed from Melba Moore's "Pick Me Up, I'll Dance" has been one of the biggest cuts of 2018. Here, Yam Who delivers his own house-friendly rework of Koze's classic as part of Midnight Riot's "Dubplate Disco" series. We'd argue that it's even better than Koze's cut, primarily because it gets to the point far quicker than the German's stretched-out epic and utilizes more chorus repetitions. Arguably even bigger is flipside "Disco Madness", a thunderous and seriously heavy disco-house re-edit of a driving Teena Marie cut that's almost worth the admission price on its own.

Dubplate Disco - Pick Up (Yam Who? Edit)

Hall & Oates | I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)(Change Request ReVision)

For this ReVision, I took on this classic by a duo who needs no introduction. Dropped right in the middle of their seemingly endless hit factory streak, this song was the second single from their tenth studio album, 1981's Private Eyes.

Landing them their fourth number-one hit single and the second from the same album, this song was written quickly in-between recording sessions for Private Eyes. 

This song makes iconic of the fairly new Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm at the centerpiece rhythm section. The CR-78 was Roland's first microchip-based programmable drum machine. This machine this song marked the beginning of what would become the golden era of synthetic drums taking over the airwaves. 

Released in March of 1981, “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)” along with Phil Collins' January 1981 single, “In The Air Tonight”—which also prominently featured the Roland CR-78—would make this first programmable machine from Roland an icon overnight. 

This song also features the state of the art Dave Smith Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, a Korg organ baseline, Fender Rhodes, and simple, but effective guitar motifs. I recreated this song with a Roland CR-78, Prophet 5, Fender Rhodes, Vox Continental Organ, and Live Bass. 

Enjoy!

Hall & Oates | I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)(Change Request ReVision)

Full-quality download available from the Fire House BandCamp here: https://firehouseliverpool.bandcamp.com/track/booker-t-the-m-g-s-melting-pot-ch-wilson-edit

melting pot (ché edit)

Wham! - Everything She Wants (Dolls Combers Tribute Remix)

TROPICAL VELVET PARTY 26TH JANUARY:
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KORT RETURNS TO HOTTEST FOR OUR FIRST SHOW OF 2019 WITH SAMO ON GUEST MIX DUTIES

1. DIN JAY - WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN (KORT'S ELECTRIC BLUE REMIX) - TROPICAL VELVET
2. STEVE TAYLOR, OZZY & STIX - HOW I FEEL (RICHARD EARNSHAW REMIX)
3. MOODENA - BOOGIE MONSTA
4. TEDDY DOUGLAS, MARCELL RUSELL - ONLY A FOOL (KC REMIX)
5. NATASHA KITTY KAT, DANNY KANE, SOPHIE PAUL - WEAR IT
6. ENRICO BSJ FERRARI - NEVER BE THE SAME
7. SLAM DUNK'D, CHROMEO, AI - P - NO PRICE (ART OF TONES EXTENDED DISCO MIX)
8. KORT & PHIL CASTLE - CALL MY NAME - TROPICAL VELVET
9. SCOTTY BOY - SHO NUFF
10. CRUSH CLUB, SUPERMINI - WE DANCE
11. STEVEN STONE, TASISTA D'MOUR - JUST ANOTHER LOVER (KORT REMIX)
12. KINGS OF TOMORROW - FINALLY (DARIO D'ATTIS REMIX)
13. ETUR - USHEO - GOTTA MAKE IT
14. HARVEY MASON - GROOVIN' YOU (JOEY NEGRO MASONS REVENGE)

GUEST MIX:

SAMO

TROPICAL VELVET EP104 HOSTED BY KORT GUEST MIX SAMO

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