Smilefight!

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:08 pm

My new guilty pleasure is Lily Allen. I can't get enough of that gorgeous voice of hers. But what's really cool is on the CD, they let you remix two of the songs. So I'm organizing a fight to remix her song "Smile." I posted the source audio, and you'll have a month to do it. Deadline is May 1. No exceptions, no extensions. I'll make a poll, and whoever gets the most votes gets a prize.

Rules:

- The remix must feature Lily Allen's vocals (though they can be chopped up or rearranged). You can use as little or as much of the other tracks as you want.

- PM me a link to the song. You have to host it yourself. If you can't, and it's really good, PM me and maybe I'll host it for you.

- Listen to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyTOROlo9E

- Get the source at http://www.csehak.org/src/

- The original BPM is 95.5; if you set your DAW to that, the clips should loop nicely.

- Submit as many different remixes as you like.

Deadline:

May 1st (but anything that comes in before May 8th will be allowed)

Prizes:

1st prize: Borat DVD
2nd prize: Mr. T Talking Electronic Keychain
3rd prize: Whoopee Cushion

Anyone who participated in my Lostfight will tell you, I'm good for it.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:26 pm

Yeah, I just heard Lily Allen for the first time early Feb and loved her right away. I don't normally like pop music, but she has a nice quality about her and a great band.

Although a good idea for a fun contest, I don't want to commit to this yet because I'm really busy right now. But I would like to grunge her up a bit and dirty up that big band sound (my answer to all music). Maybe things will change after I see what we have to work with.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:29 pm

i am in.

any chance to turn a fantastic singer and a good song into a piece-meal robot mish-mash, i'm there.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:42 pm

yes - i am in

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:48 am

i'm not but I wanted three posts from australia in a row.

jack · Post by **jack** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:16 am

i'd do this.

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:28 am

You had me at SmileFight.

drë · Post by **drë** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:21 pm

c hack wrote:My new guilty pleasure is Lily Allen.

Am more of a Regina Spektor fan myself, but if your really into Lily Allen she recently did a guest DJ spot on NPRs all songs considered you might enjoy.

http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/20070222/

Rinkydink · Post by **Rinkydink** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:35 pm

i'm up for it 8)

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:19 am

Are you still planning on posting the sourcefiles today? Just a friendly reminder that there's some interest in this event.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:39 pm

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:28 pm

Going up as we speak, should be finished by 10:00 EST. (It's 100 mb.) Point your browser to http://www.csehak.org/src/ and download the zip file. They're WAVs, BTW.

It occurs to me I should check my bandwidth limits...

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:07 pm

"The page you tried to access does not exist on this server."
-bill

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:30 am

Stupid webserver, not listing directory contents by default. Try it again, it should work now.

Also, set your DAW to 95.5 BPM and everything should fall into place. I trimmed each clip to start and end at the beginning of a bar.

blue · Post by **blue** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:22 am

holler if you need me to mirror it. i gots TBs to spare.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:14 am

Thanks Blue! I just checked though, and it looks like I get 250 gigs a month! (Which is pretty cool for $4.) Shouldn't be a problem.

Holy shit everybody, I've already got an entry submitted, and it's great!

wages · Post by **wages** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:03 am

Sure I could google it, but it might be useful for everyone.... do you have a link to the original version of this song? I think I've only heard it once or twice ever (I don't listen to the radio!).

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:09 am

Yup, you could've Googled it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyTOROlo9E

Man, I wish Eminem released an a capella version of "97 Bonnie & Clyde." That'd make for an interesting (if fucked up) juxtaposition.

Billy's Little Trip · Sun Apr 01, 2007 11:40 am

c hack wrote:Yup, you could've Googled it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyTOROlo9E

Man, I wish Eminem released an a capella version of "97 Bonnie & Clyde." That'd make for an interesting (if fucked up) juxtaposition.

hahaha, first time I've seen that video. What an evil little bish.
Apparently they have more than one music vid for smile.
I love the old 80's FX they use on the vox and instruments. That must be what attracted me to her and her band in the first place.

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:32 am

Ya, big fan of Lily Allen. It's been on heavy rotation in the vehicle driving.

I'm down with this. Downloading source files right now.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:28 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote: I love the old 80's FX they use on the vox and instruments.

What do you mean? The vox sound pretty straightforward to me, just some reverb. Am I missing something?

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:25 pm

c hack wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote: I love the old 80's FX they use on the vox and instruments.
What do you mean? The vox sound pretty straightforward to me, just some reverb. Am I missing something?

The echo delay
edit:hmmm, I just went back to listen to show you what I meant, and you're right. Maybe it was the bleed over sound on the adlibs, I'm not sure. Never mind.

edit 2: OK, I just remembered where I felt the old school echo. It is in the Smile vi you posted up yahh ^^^
The part where she says, "when you were fucking the girl next door, what'd you do that for (ECHO)".

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