Remix of one of my favorite tracks of all times. SSS forever.
 
It's a bit of a work in progress, I haven't finished tweaking it to my liking yet.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 ( Version2-1 Fashion is Dead Remix )

New Order - Blue Monday (Version2-1's FAC13 remix)

ZZ Top - Legs ( Version2-1 Rework )

Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Version2-1 Edit)

Giorgio Moroder - Chase ( Version2-1 remix )

Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield (Version2-1 remix)

Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger (Version2-1 remix)

Styx - Mr. Roboto (Version2-1 Domo Arigato remix)

Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (Version2-1 Remix For Nothing)

Depeche Mode - Fly On The Windscreen (Version2-1 Death Is Everywhere remix)

Laurent Garnier - The Sound Of The Big Babou (Version2-1 remix)

Yello - Oh Yeah (Version2-1 remix)

Made this track for fun. Nothing serious, really. :)

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (Version2-1 remix)

Not satisfied with current remixes such as " Sleeper In Metropolis 3000 " as it almost bears no ressemblence to the original, I insisted on trying to copy the original synths and beat so it retained its '80s atmosphere as much as possible...

... with a few extra twists, obviously. 

Anne Clark - Sleeper In Metropolis (Version2-1 remix)

Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Version2-1 Rework)

Warning : TL;DR below unless you like details. If not, enjoy the track !
 
For those still interested, here's how I was able to get this rework done :
 
The Beat : by far the most tedious and complicated part. It is sampled from Dirty Beats found on the Can You Party album. The main problem was sound quality. Either online or on the vinyl itself ( which I own ), Dirty Beats bears its name for a reason. Extensive - and partially destructive - noise cancellation had to be applied to "clean up" the sample which rendered it rather flat. A subtle reverb was added to sort of drown out artifacts and inject some life back in the sample. The kick drums, snare and closed hi hats were the same as Can You Party but the incorrect open hi hats were substituted for the ones found at the beginning of Royal House - A Better Way. The entire pattern was frankensteined to match that of Can You Party which features additional snares and open hi hats compared to Dirty Beats. Waveforms were shortened in FL Studio to play only the appropriate elements ( like the breakbeat section for instance ).

Sound Effects : the siren, taken from Mantronix's King Of The Beats, was elongated with a fade out effect. The explosion was sampled from Dirty Beats as well, stretched a bit longer than the original.
 
The famous Piano Stabs : this sample was heavily altered from the original found on Marshall Jefferson's Move Your Body. Deep bass tones were added on the first two piano stabs as well as some treatment I wasn't able to duplicate so I stuck with sampling the beginning of Can You Party (Original mix). Boosted the highs a bit, cleaned it up and done.

The Vocal Samples : I used the WhoSampled.com website to know and find all the appropriate vocal clips. They were cleaned up and given a highs boost in a sound editor. Once in FL Studio, through the Parametric EQ2 plugin, lowered the bass and raised the mids to give them an "old radio" feel. A slight bit crusher was also applied ( to emulate the Emu-SP1200's low sample bitrate ) plus some reverb. Some new vocals were added, all from the same clips as the other vocal samples found throughout the original track. There's sort of a vocal Easter egg at the end of the track, a wink to a certain hip-house track from a Chicago DJ.
 
The Track Itself : obviously, I wanted it to sound as if it was made in 1988 as well therefore it is devoid of modern drum kit samples. And yet it sounds more modern at times, considering breakbeat was not exactly common back then. So the entire track is rearranged and shortened waveforms of the original track. As a side note, because of the degraded nature of the beat and piano stabs samples, the track's audio quality is not as crystal clear as you would hear on recent tracks… nor was it ever meant to be as the original track doesn't have stellar audio quality to begin with. Also the mastering is sub-par if you care for such things ( meaning vocal samples might overlap the drums at times ). And lastly, I became aware early on that on the original track, the length of all vocals and piano stabs are determined by the duration of a key press for each sample ( which samplers in 1988 probably only allowed samples to revert back to the beginning by default also ). DAWs now allow isolating specific sections of each sample wherever needed so I was able to be really liberal with them. Nonetheless, absolutely all vocal sample patterns have been recreated from scratch, even if they end up sounding exactly like the original track. It can be noticed by comparing, say, the piano stabs patterns with the ones from the original track during those vocal patterns ( or more evidently by looking at the FL Studio file ).

Royal House - Can You Party (2015 Rework)

Black Riot - A Day In The Life (2015 Rework)

Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FtpDBZ9icg
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/djversion2minus1

If anyone remembers the original song vividly ( otherwise, go here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_kN_DJQJ3U ), you'll notice the vocals' pacing on my remix has been severely altered, i.e. there are stretched out vowels and pauses in the lyrics where there are none. I guarantee you won't find another remix like this one.

For kicks, I videoed the remix made in FL Studio 12 on the Youtube link above. It's worth a watch for those wondering what a remixed track "looks" like and what I use to create them.

Geek stuff : all vocals painstakingly altered in Adobe Audition to either shorten, elongate or add pauses in the lyrics.

Obviously, all rights reserved to R. Orzabal and C. Smith / Tears For Fears ® 1982

Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter (Version2-1 Rework)

All Rights Reversed To Their Respective Owners.

Simply, Reso's magnificent " Check 1,2 " track with Rakim's " Follow The Leader " lyrics mashed up together.

The original track was barely altered to make everything fit. The results are rather surprising.

v2-1

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