The Song Fight Bulletin Board

A bunch of people have expressed interest in doing a Remixfight, so I figured I'd get the ball rolling.

I'll pick a track at semi-random from https://www.cambridge-mt.com/ms/mtk/ and let everyone who's "in" know what it is.

Reply here to let me know you're "in" by December 13th, mixdowns will be due December 20th.

Sure, I’m in.

I'll take a stab at it

In........

I will try this if I have time! Add me to the list.

This is totally nowhere near my area of comfort, so I'll give it a go and see what happens.

Ok. Looks interesting. In

This sounds like fun, count me in.

Reminder that Gift of Music is going on right now too!

Also, just last week I was thinking about Remixfight and wondering if anyone involved still owned any of the domains or whatever. Fortuitous timing.

And, uh, in, I guess. Not that stiffing has any real penalty for this.

fluffy wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:49 pm

Also, just last week I was thinking about Remixfight and wondering if anyone involved still owned any of the domains or whatever. Fortuitous timing.

remixfight was a blast

Signing up.

Sign me up. Can you clarify the rules, though? Do we all get the same song, or different songs?

Just to be absolutely clear - by "remix", are we talking about the common meaning where an artist/producer takes an original work and adds their own things to it as they please, or the stricter interpretation where it's really only about creating a new mixdown of the existing material with nothing extra added? I'm asking because the post this sidefight was coming from seems to be about the mixdown aspect only...

Oh, that's a good point, I hadn't looked at the originating site.

FWIW, for the last little while when Jack Shite was still running it as a weeklyish thing on its own site, he was mostly picking sample packs and a capellas from ccMixter.org.

Yeah I reckon I might as well give this a go. Fluffy's

Not that stiffing has any real penalty for this.

has convinced me.

lichenthroat wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 7:17 pm

Sign me up. Can you clarify the rules, though? Do we all get the same song, or different songs?

Everyone gets the same zip file of unprocessed song tracks, which I will post to in this thread on the 13th.

jast wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:30 pm

Just to be absolutely clear - by "remix", are we talking about the common meaning where an artist/producer takes an original work and adds their own things to it as they please, or the stricter interpretation where it's really only about creating a new mixdown of the existing material with nothing extra added?

I think the results will be more interesting if people have complete creative license. If you want to create the best mixdown you can, great. If you want to cut samples from the tracks and create an entirely new, original song by sampling the tracks, go for it. If you want to record or program new material to accompany it, cool.

If we get both sorts of submissions, we might consider judging them in separate categories.

This is the part of Song Production Fight that I’m worst at, so I’m in.

fluffy wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:24 pm

Oh, that's a good point, I hadn't looked at the originating site.

FWIW, for the last little while when Jack Shite was still running it as a weeklyish thing on its own site, he was mostly picking sample packs and a capellas from ccMixter.org.

what fluffy said!

I would try this, sure!

Alright! The target of this Remixfight is "Walkie Talkie", a Ukrainian Indie-Rock song by Detsky Sad. Multitrack is here, go nuts!

https://mtkdata.cambridgemusictechnolog ... e_Full.zip

My immediate confusion upon listening to this and looking at the files is probably an indication that I am in need of the practice which this exercise is intended to provide.

I love a clean mix. These tracks are my kryptonite it seems. Muahahaha.