71 posts tagged “remix”

This is an old remix of Kanye West's Gold Digger/ Ray Charles' I Got A Woman by Diplo, but I just found it recently and had to share it since it is a lot of fun.

I decided to make a YouTube video for an old remix of Tori Amos' "Horses" by a DJ named Gavo aka Gavin Bradley.

Here is the video ...

Here is Gavin Bradley's website ...

http://www.gavinbradley.com

I always thought this was one of the best remixes of a Tori Amos song (the Armand van Helden remix of Professional Widow is probably the best remix ever).

You download Gavo's remix of Horses here.

I have posted this song before, but I decided to make a YouTube video for it (especially since I need to use remixes and live versions of songs to avoid YouTube's strict copyright rules). iieee is my favorite song from Tori Amos' From The Choirgirl Hotel album, and it is also one of my favorite songs ever. I have enjoyed this "beginner's lounge mix" remix, which I guess was done by a fan many moons ago and released onto the internet.

I tried to do a video for Tori Amos's obscure song "Hungarian Wedding Song". I used photos of an British import CD single of Caught A Lite Sneeze. I edited the photos and created a rubik's cube like video effect (that I used above, too) using this basic video editor I have. Well, YouTube slapped a copyright violation on the video right away due to the music. I changed the audio to a song that YouTube offered, and here is the result ...

Here is the only video of Tori's "Hungarian Wedding Song" performed by someone on YouTube (you can get away with that!) ...

Here is the actual song by Tori Amos ...

Here is a very low quality version of what the video would have looked like. I am not too crazy about the video now, but it did teach me the "overlay" effect, where you can lay one video on top of another and choose how transparent the video is. I put the Tori video on top of inverted scenes from George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead". I think the effect is kind of cool, but I wish you could make out the movie scenes more. I thought the movie fit in nicely with the lyrics "all the dead are coming" from the song. I repeated the song over and over again to make the video long so it gets pretty repetitive. I tried to incorporate sound effects during the song to make it sound more sinister.

(Video coming soon)

Here is a new song by Major Lazer, featuring M.I.A. and Prince Zimboo. This is a remixed version by Switch.

Major Lazer ft. M.I.A. and Prince Zimboo - Baby Riddim (Switch Remix) ...

Download Link

You may remember the name, Major Lazer, from this song ...

I was searching for "Lazer" on my iTunes, and this Louis Armstrong song came up (because one of the composers is Tom Glazer) so I just had to post it ...

Speaking of Switch (see above), he did a remix of Bjork's song Nattura that is pretty cool ...

I discovered Firefox Personas today. They are really cool themes that completely change how your browser looks. I chose the "Fireflies" Persona to go with my Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) browser theme, and the combination is really cool. I think they have tons of personas to choose from.

Firefox Personas link

Artlce about Personas

Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) theme (for the Firefox 3.5 browser)

Here is what my browser looks like now ...

I made a mix for a friend that included MGMT, Depeche Mode, Empire of the Sun, King Brain, and a little bit of Rye Rye (see below). The remix of Depeche Mode's "Peace" is really cool ...

Depeche Mode - Peace (Japanese Popstars Remix)

M.I.A. has begun her NEET empire with a simple webpage that is really cool to look at. NEET is M.I.A.'s own personal record label. I think she may have used it to help distribute the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, but don't quote me on that. She is definitely using it to market her protege, Rye Rye. Below is a screenshot of the website, but you need to go to the actual site to experience the magic of the graphics (you'll see what I mean).

I think "NEET" stands for "Not in Education, Employment or Training", but I don't know if that has been officially confirmed. Here is the YouTube video of Rye Rye's song "Bang" ...

My favorite song or remix of Rye Rye's is "Hardcore Girls", which she did with The Count and Sinden. Here is the Don Rimini remix (which I have posted before) ...

Rye Rye has an official website here ... http://ryeryemusic.com

M.I.A. won the best female hip hop artist at the BET awards.

http://www.bet.com/Specials/betawards09/betawards09_nominees/betawards09_winners

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyRTygq5XiGpktbDwyUD0SSnra6QD994415O0

Here is a new remix of M.I.A.'s Hombre ...

M.I.A - Hombre (JMAY's Bad Mami Remix)

You can download it here.

Google increased the maximum size of a Gmail email attachment. Here is a story about it from Austin Business Journal ...

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/06/29/daily2.html?ana=from_rss

You may ask "why does this matter?", but being able to send a larger file with Gmail is great. I recently had a PowerPoint project that was a little over 25MB in size. I had to put in on a USB drive, but it would have been nice to simply email to myself for storage and be able to download it to my work PC when it was time to do a presentation. Google is also increasing the maximum size of a video on YouTube from 1 GB to 2 GB, which means we should see some much higher quality videos soon. This is my favorite part of the article ...

The company warns, however, that users' attachments may bounce off of other email systems which have smaller attachment limits. This is apparently seen by the company as an entry to getting more Gmail users as it includes this suggestion on its Gmail help page: "If your attachment bounces, you should invite them to Gmail." 

Here is the ending scene of Mission Impossible set to a remix of Goldfrapp's song, "Train". The actual title of the remix is El Train (T. Raumschmiere Remix).

This is also my favorite scene from Mission Impossible because the pace and lighting of the movie change completely as soon as Tom Cruise emerges from the train.

This is not my favorite remix, but I thought it could use a larger "view count" ...

I kind of already posted this, but I wanted to post it again with a new video for it. Here is a link to a good torrent for remixes of M.I.A. songs and rare M.I.A. songs that have never been officially released ...

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2555848

Here is a video for the torrent (Bit Torrent is an excellent program to use to download this torrent) ...

Here is the download link for the song featured in the torrent ...

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Cates and Dpl Papered-up Dub)

Here is the site where I got the song ...

http://www.dancefloormayhem.com/2009/03/mia-paper-planes-cates-papered-up-dub.html

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