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Beat, mixing and mastering by Tapehead
Vocals from ‘2 Stings Acapella’ and ‘Gorilla Monsoon Acapella’ by MF DOOM and Westside Gunn

Visuals: https://youtu.be/oVFvE6V6LPo

Been wanting to remix these verses for a while now, they’ve got a crazy style to them and I knew there’d be a lot of potential to flip the flows for a remix. I’ve always liked Westside Gunn, he reminds me of Ghostface Killah in his delivery and lyricism, so when this project with DOOM got released I was very gassed, especially seeing as everyone had been waiting for DOOMSTARKS for ages at that point. These ended up being really difficult to remix just because of how different the original tracks were in tempo and flow to what I wanted to do with the acapellas, I couldn’t rely on just matching the bpm cause it sped up the voices too much and sounded wack, so I had to chop the acapellas up bar by bar, and work out which ones would fit, cut the ones that didn’t, and then restructure the songs etc to fit my beats. It was definitely worth doing this though, ended up making the remix more convincing and different too, which is always something I’m trying to do. 

These beats are pretty old so I did update the mixes for this and layered new drums etc, the first beat is actually the one I used for the first remix I ever made and uploaded on Soundcloud, I originally had the acapella from ‘Life’s A Bitch’ over it. ( https://soundcloud.com/tapeheadloops/lifes-a-bitch-blend ) I still like that concept but I’ve got a different remix planned for that song, almost the opposite vibe, and I thought that hardcore vibe would fit the vibe of this collab between DOOM and Westside Gunn. I’ll be doing a proper announcement soon, but I’ve got a full length project of DOOM remixes dropping this year on Halloween, and I made this because I was struggling with some of the tracklisting and needed something to bridge a gap between two songs. There’s some tracks which I’m keeping unreleased until that album drops (there are quite a few previously released remixes on there too – I basically want it to be a collection of the remixes which I’m most proud of, presented together as one full thing). I wanted to drop this one now seeing as I’ve been working on it all week, and I’m pretty excited with how it turned out seeing as I’ve never remixed Westside Gunn before. Will definitely be looking into more of his acapellas, Griselda stuff too. 

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