<b>The way I work</b>

I like to do remixes. It's a great way to practise using my musical instruments and, furthermore, it pays the bills between albums/gigs.

A musician will send me the constituent parts of one of their songs. Usually I will use just the vocal acapella and construct the underlying audio entirely from scratch. Very rarely do I use any other elements of the original recording (with the exception of "Fledermaus Can't Get It" and "Alone, Together", both "cut-up"-type rejigs where the parts were unavailable). If the original track is an instrumental, my remix often ends up being more of a cover version, as I will entirely reprogram/rerecord everything myself (e.g. "Enough About Human Rights").

I prefer to work with songs I dislike, as it's more of a challenge to turn them into something special. One particular track was so phenomenally godawful that I actually sampled the noise of me snapping the original CDr, and used it in my version.

Sometimes record-label staff or band managers don't like my first pass at a remix, so I may have to dumb things down somewhat. That usually does the trick. Alas that is the cautious, focus-grouped world we live in these days. I find that the smaller the label/band, the more ambitious I can get with a remix without people getting all confused when they hear it. What did these people expect? Have they not heard my albums? Stop wasting my time and give Erol Alkan a call or something.

The remix I am most proud of is the one of "Commando" by The Monsoon Bassoon (look them up). Because I'm good friends with the (sadly now defunct) band, I got away with submitting a fairly delirious reworking of their magnificent song. I took several months to record this version and have never thrown so much of my heart, soul and kitchen sink into any other remix. The resultant 7" contains more musical and structural ideas than a whole afternoon of 6Music. In an ideal world, Rihanna's management would hear this rhapsodic prog workout, book me to do a similarly far-out amendment of said pop chanteuse's ditties, and the resulting synapse-mangler would be heard blaring out of schoolkids' Nokias on the 38 bus.

Alas, however, the days of Frank Zappa being able to assemble a full orchestra to play his compositions on Saturday Night Live are long gone, and in these times of Magic FM's playlisting of oldies (10cc's "I'm Not In Love" six times a day, with nairy a play of the band's vastly superior "Clockwork Creep"), billion-selling acoustic balladeers on Later, and reality shows squeezing out the last remaining music video programmes on MTV, it really is about very straightforward, predictably structured, risk-free songs.

That said, if you like what you hear above, get in touch.

Remixes

Apple vs. 7G

Soft Landing (Max Tundra Remix)

Neosporin

Neosporin (Max Tundra Remix)

Azealia Banks: Chasing Time (Max Tundra Remix)

Missy Elliott: The Rain (Max Tundra Remix)

Pet Shop Boys: I'm With Stupid (Max Tundra Remix)

MORE UNRELEASED TIELSIE HERE :
https://soundcloud.com/nonstoppop/play
[TWRK — Living Room (Tielsie remix)]

00:00 Tielsie – Défilé
02:37 GFOTY – Lover (Tielsie Remix)
06:29 Spinee – Hell Hound (Tielsie Edit)
09:21 Tielsie – Firlgriends
13:23 Tielsie – Palette VIP
17:11 Tielsie – Untitled

tielsie unreleased mix

Made this version with way clearer and less autotuned vocals, and also removed Myah Marie from lead vocals and added Anna Diaz on the bgv's. 

So basically, me, @musicfiltered3 and @slutstuff made a joint YouTube channel for Britney stuff. More stuff like this will be on the way soon, so if that interests you consider subscribing!
Check out the full version here:
https://youtu.be/7-JPU9YaoMs

Missy Elliott: The Rain (Max Tundra Remix)

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