Original tracks from my homies

JAN 23

WL remixes

Wrapping up our first ever remix EP, we pay tribute to arguably one of rock's greatest icons, Kurt Cobain, while also apologizing to him for doing this to his art. This is our bootleg remix of Nirvana's "Something In The Way" off of their historic Nevermind album. It's our progressive house - or is it cooler to say "melodic techno" nowadays? - take on it. Either ways, it's something that Nirvana fans should probably avoid.

Click the "Free Download" above to grab your copy as well as DJ-friendly Extended Mix. We prefer not to put "fan gate" to the free download, i.e. force you to follow us + repost the track to get your copy, as is common: if you genuinely like it enough to repost, we'd appreciate that :) You'd be helping our music reach people we wouldn't be able to reach ourselves. If you wanna go one further and have our stuff directly to your inbox about once a month, join our inner circle here: https://www.pirateradiomusic.com. We'd love to have you.

If you wanna know more about how the song came about, read on..
 
  
 
ABOUT THIS SONG
We originally wrote this remix as a time-boxed writing exercise last summer. We got further than we expected within the deadline, but didn't complete it and just moved on to the next one. A few months later, when we got the opportunity to do a set for the Rapture Radio series (https://soundcloud.com/club-rapture/rapture-radio-035-pirate-radio?in=pirate-radio-nyc/sets/rapture-radio), we decided to pick up where we left off, and spent about 2-3x more time on it to bring it to its current state. Along the way, we got some valuable guidance from our long-time friend and mentor, Pete Cuppernull of https://soundcloud.com/weareanden. We've never made a song in this style before, so we got some great feedback on the song's arrangement and mixing from him. If you've listened to Anden's music, you know how good they are. So reach out to him if you ever want to do a 1-1 music production session with him! Or let us know and we'll connect you.
 
 
 
AMATEUR HOUR
Here are some of our production notes, in case it helps any other producers. We use Ableton.

1. We luckily found a pretty decent quality of Kurt's vocal track while acapella-hunting on YouTube. It's often one of the first places we search for acapellas.

2. Some of the samples used in this song came from Dave Parkinson's sample pack on Freshly Squeezed Sounds: https://www.freshlysqueezedsamples.com/dave-parkinson-house-essentials-volume-2.html. We use his sample packs quite a lot, especially for drums and sometimes basslines.

3. The arps were all written on the Ableton Push. Last year we spent some time re-learning it after it had been collecting dust, and then while writing this song, realized how easy it is to write arps on it: set the scale, throw on even the stock Ableton Arpeggiator plugin, and start jamming out different chord shapes on the Push for a few minutes.

4. The haunting piano part at the start is one of the wild "Burning Piano" presets in Omnisphere. That preset was created by PLAYING A PIANO THAT WAS BURNING. That instrument and its presets, and their makers all exist at a different level.

5. Mastering chain: we're noobs at mastering, and our mastering chain looks like this, in this order:
Oxford Inflator -> FabFilter Saturn -> Fielding DSP Reviver -> soothe 2 -> FabFilter Pro Q3 (reductive EQ) -> Waves SSL Compressor -> Ozone Dynamics -> Ozone Exciter -> Ozone Imager -> Sausage Fattener -> FabFilter Pro-L2 -> Reference (for levels, by Mastering The Mix)

VSTs:
Here are some of the prominent VSTs used:
1. Guitars: Guitar Rig -> Custom patch. We've yet to make a song that doesn't use Guitar Rig, it's Brian's main guitar amp.
2. Bass: Diva + Diva layered
3. Pads & arps: Omnisphere
4. Cello, to mimic the cello from the original Something In The Way: Stock Ableton preset

Free download

Nirvana - Something In The Way (Pirate Radio Remix) (Free Download)

in honor of the Grammy award-winning artist and producer duo, and Record of the Year 2021

If this song is unacceptable to be sampling Billie Eilish's voice, please contact me directly and the song will be removed right away. Thank you.

-Sarah B aka Club Indigo

Everything I Wanted (Club Indigo Remix)

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Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted (Club Indigo Remix)

Mexican label Duro welcomes Esprit Divers, the new alias of Coyu, the celebrated Catalan DJ and founder of Suara. After being published on Kompakt's Speicher X series with 'Turbulentos', the Catalan DJ returns with ‘Neophobia’, a two original EP with a tremendous remix from English producer Third Son.

“Eclecticism and diversity is something that has followed me since I started to get interest on music. This is why I have decided to split my projects and create Esprit Divers, who will be in continuous motion seeking for different sounds, based on the idea of music of contrast: light and dark, sorrow and hope, mind and soul.” Esprit Divers

The extraordinary opener is "Slow Retrogress", a cut with solid drums like an iron horse, magnetic rolling bass, an edged melody, and hallucinating vocals. The moment where the train derails and plummets down the tunnel. "Neophobia" might sound like a classic tech house groove, but as it goes along it twists and turns out of reality in a deep and mind-blowing way. The drums and bass create the never-ending mental loop, until the spell is broken by the horns of veracity accompanying the lead vocal, only to be suddenly dumped again to the loophole.

Last of all is the remix from Polymath’s Third Son, a more upbeat and playful cut. The glitchy and erroneous percussions slowly introduce you to then be greeted by a neat and cool synthesizer. Creating a majestic, heterogeneous and open atmosphere.

Neophobia

Neophobia (Third Son Remix)

Esprit Divers - Neophobia (Third Son Remix)

Q&A are Alexis Georgopoulos (Arp, The Alps, Tussle) and Quinn Luke
(Coppa, Bing Ji Ling, The Phenomenal Hand Clap Band, Paqua). The two were introduced by Chris Veltri, owner of legendary record shop Groove Merchants in San Francisco. 

Veltri and Luke had made a pair of plunderphonic Disco 12-inches under the name Coppa. Georgopoulos was a founder of the group Tussle and asked if Coppa would do a Tussle remix. This led to Luke acting as producer on the Tussle album Telescope Mind for Smalltown Supersound. 

The first results of this collaboration were “Trap Door” and “Tumbling Cubes;” detroit-inspired electro/cavernous dirty disco. The original 12 inch vinyl pressing of these two songs 2009 single came out on DFA.

Through the years, the group has gained an esteemed shortlist of
admirers, among them Todd Terje, Idjut Boys, Sal Principato (LIQUID
LIQUID), and Bill Brewster (DJ and author of leftfield disco classic Last
Night A DJ Saved My Life). In the Fall of 2020, the duo released another
couple of tunes on Leng Records. 

With this digital re-release, Q&A present a brand new track entitled “ESP.” The track again features Patrick Wood on drums, and brings a tasty organic, acid jam to the dance floor.

Q&A - ESP [El Triángulo Records] <Gouranga Premiere>

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White Lotus Theme (Felix Desero Remix)

White Lotus Remix

out on nein
https://neinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/push-rush

Sylphomatic - Dark Places

I made a remix of The White Lotus theme song I've been playing lately and thought I would share it with the world. Enjoy!

🟢 Free Download: https://bit.ly/whitelotus_alexcecil_remix

🛑 Free Download ❗️

The White Lotus Theme Song - (Alex Cecil Remix)

Great Remix from Villalobos !!! I cant get no sleep !!!


Ricardo Villalobos - Insomnia (Remix)

Another One Bites The Dust Paul C remix played by Marco Carola. Finally free download for all !!! LOVE

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust (Paul C Rmx) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Stelios Vassiloudis - Rust (RAMZA Remix)

Did my first ever remix for Spin Department's first album <3 

"Linear Cycle" spoke the most to me with its weirdly cool lyrics, so I mixed them up with folksy Indian beats and vocals to bring out the elements some more. 

Really enjoyed making this one and hope you'll enjoy listening to it just as much! :)

Link for other platforms: ria-mehta.com

Spin Department - Linear Cycle (Rïa's Deep House Remix) [Tri Music Group]

In our continuing effort to ruin classic rock and metal songs, here's our latest: a bootleg remix of Garbage's "I Think I'm Paranoid". It's a progressive house take on the legendary 90s alt rock track, with Pink Floyd-inspired guitar solos.

Click the "Free Download" above to grab your copy of the version here as well as DJ-friendly extended mix. We thought long and hard about putting a "fan gate" to the free download, i.e. making you follow us + repost the track to get your copy (as is common), but decided against it: if you genuinely like it enough to repost, we'd appreciate that :) You'd be helping our music reach people we wouldn't be able to reach ourselves. If you wanna go one further and have our stuff directly to your inbox about once a month, join our inner circle here: https://www.pirateradiomusic.com. We'd love to have you.

DJs: if you do give it a spin, even at a house party, let us know! You'd make our day.

Finally, if you wanna know more about how the song came about, read on.

ABOUT THIS SONG
We wrote this song for our Rapture Radio set late last year. https://soundcloud.com/club-rapture/rapture-radio-035-pirate-radio?in=pirate-radio-nyc/sets/rapture-radio. This was the last song to be written for the set. We had to pivot pretty late in the set preparation, after multiple efforts to write a Weezer bootleg just wasn't working. By then we had our bootlegs of three 90s bands in the set (Pantera and Nirvana being the other two) which just happened organically. So  then when it was time to replace the Weezer fail, we deliberately stuck to the 90s/2000s rock bands theme: we tried our hands at remixing Deftones and Korn, both of which failed. With just a few days to go, we then found the acapella for Garbage's "I Think I'm Paranoid". After a couple of days of working on it, this too looked to be headed towards where regular garbage ends up... but then Brian added his guitar solos, and the song was instantly transformed. That's the version you hear today.

AMATEUR HOUR: HOW WE PRODUCE
Here are some relevant / share-worthy parts of the production of this song, in case it helps any other producers. We use Ableton.

1. A few of the prominent samples in this song are courtesy one of our favorites, Jaytech's sample pack on Splice: https://splice.com/sounds/sample-magic/jaytech-wavelengths. Splice Sounds has been our go-to for some time now, and it makes life so easy when your favorite producers are selling samples there.

2. The kick sample was taken from another progressive producer we love, Fehrplay, also off Splice Sounds: https://splice.com/sounds/sample-magic/fehrplay-parallel-sounds.

3. Mastering chain: we're noobs at mastering, and use this same chain each time, in this order:
Oxford Inflator -> FabFilter Saturn -> Fielding DSP Reviver -> soothe 2 -> FabFilter Pro Q3 (reductive EQ) -> Waves SSL Compressor -> Ozone Dynamics -> Ozone Exciter -> Ozone Imager -> Sausage Fattener -> FabFilter Pro-L2 -> Reference (for levels, by Mastering The Mix)

VSTs:
Here are some of the prominent VSTs used:
1. Guitars: Guitar Rig -> Custom patch. We've yet to make a song that doesn't use Guitar Rig, it's Brian's main guitar amp.
2. Bass: Serum + Diva layered
3. Breakdown synths: Omnisphere

Hope this can be of use to someone!

Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid (Pirate Radio Remix) (Free Download)

JEAHMON! Records (Germany)
Critical Monday (Germany)
Nein Records (UK)
Lost On You (France)
925 Music (Germany)
Rvdiovctive (US)
Deep Playa (US)
Parallel Label (Spain)
Staybad (US)
Popgang (US)

An eclectic and rising force, Cecil’s sharp sense of dance floor storytelling blurs the lines between Indie Dance, House and Techno and is rooted in classical training (incl. performances at Carnegie Hall).  While his latest EP Hip Aliens hit #1 on Beatport’s Indie Dance chart, Cecil’s also founder and resident at Burning Man soundcamp Miki Beach, and has brought his sound to Burning Man’s DISTRIKT every year, Hideout Croatia, Floyd at Club Space, Amsterdam’s A’dam Tower, and way beyond.

Cecil has shared line-ups with a myriad of top artists, including DJ Tennis, Maceo Plex, Bob Moses, DJ Three, Echonomist, Art Department, Paco Osuna and Stacy Pullen, while continuing to build his discography with numerous well-received productions. 

As he continues to expand his reach, Alex Cecil remains committed to pushing his creativity forward, blending genres, and creating music that connects with audiences on a global scale.