Search and Rescue, Written by Rikki Slade and Adrian Rees, aka WakeCrashers.

Search and Rescue

Picture Adrian, needing to wake up early for work, his alarm/radio comes on at 5:20am on most mornings and its BBC6 Music, one morning, a riff starts playing, it wakes him up, he does not remember Paul McCartney doing this song but the guitar riff is catchy, perhaps a little bit TOO catchy...

...Days later he tells Rikki about the track, Rikki says "we need to remix this", so we do, not only does the remix get done in a night/day , give or take a couple of days later, to rectify a few errors, the loop went off beat so dedication to repositioning the "warps" which you can still hear slightly out of whack but its a lot more in tempo than it was...

...it exorcises the catchy riff from Adrian's head. The other sample you hear during the track is a sped up sample of the first bar of the Gerry Anderson's UFO theme tune. The Behringer Wasp also makes an appearance halfway through too.

The Last two minutes could easily be a fade out, but we've left it run and brought that catchy hook line back in with a bit more kick drum to potentially "mix into the next queued track...", the one that could not escape Adrian's head for about a week or so.

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Paul McCartney - Coming Up (WakeCrashers' Bootleg Overdub Remix)

Turned on 303, made a riff, you're welcome. - Rikki

(Rude) Awakening

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Rikki's 30 Year Old Earworm of a 303 riff from Rob Acid - Happy Answer, Used on Jesus on Cheese rave demo on the Amiga in 1992.

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