Oh Andrew Huang,
you proficient...
...human being?
Once again you've allowed me to make new music and earn new viewers
by cheekily slapping your face and name onto my videos.
How dare you!?
Well, you know what they say!
A good, original piece of music is like a good wine.
And I f***ing hate wine.
This is why I drink grape juice and remix other people's music.
Because making my own is way too tedious.
A few weeks ago, a lovely YouTuber called Andrew Huang started a remix competition,
in which the goal is to take his newest single, "Yours", and...
...turn it into something completely different and new!
And you know what!?
This isn't just some regular remix.
We've got actually more than just stems in here!
They actually provided lots of project for many kinds of DAW's,
like, Logic, Reaper, Ableton...
...but no signs of Fruity Loops :<
It actually took the sound designers about one week to finish the Fruity Loops project files,
so I didn't really use it in my workflow.
...But that's not a problem at all, because my workflow was pretty...
unusual this time.
First off, I took the original song and put it into a new and fresh project.
And from here on, something *magical* happened,
that professional musicians like to call
"A Huge Mess."
There is an artist named "sakuraburst", and his workflow consists of
taking all kinds of random tracks, sound effects and weird samples
to make choppy, overcompressed and generally very loud music.
I was watching some of his breakdown videos right before I found out about the remix competition,
and I was, at that time, really in the mood to try this workflow again!
I have tried this approach many times back in the days,
and the results were... pretty weird.
To be fair, I was making Speedcore at that time,
so maybe that's why it turned out like this.
The intro of my remix starts off with some soft pads
and a bunch of interesting sounds I got from the Native Instruments Kinetic Toys library.
Then we transition straight into this weird part,
which is basically the original song, but reversed and anchored to the end of every chord.
This anchoring is important, because otherwise,
we would also just flip the order of the chords and we don't want that!
I chopped up these clips into even smaller bits, made it even glitchier
and added some sweet, sweet cymbals, drums and more pads on top of everything
and that's pretty much it.
The first time we get to listen to Andrew's sexy, beautiful and upright luscious voice,
is when it's violently distorted way beyond comprehension and...
yeah, beautiful and luscious, right Wangle...
I pitched this vocal sample up by an octave,
cutoff a lot of high and low frequencies to make it sound cheap,
then distorted and bitcrushed it by a lot
and finally slapped some short reverb on it to give it some
~ S P A C E ! ~
This is also the point where we get thrown right into the first drop,
which is the messiest and most complex part of the entire remix.
I chopped up the original drop all over the place,
layered some chords with bright and loud supersaws,
added some Hi-Hats and clicky sounds from my sample library,
and to fill some gaps, I just slapped all kinds of juicy and super distorted basses in there.
To mix up all of this and add some general variety,
we then slide right into this calm, somewhat groovy part,
in which you for once, can actually understand the vocals!
This bit right here is pretty simple.
There are only a few Hi-Hats,
a synthetic bass and some short sine wave clicky wicky notes!
So nothing big or special.
But it is important to understand that this part is deliberately simple,
to contrast the messy and complex nature of the rest of the track.
Upcoming, we have another buildup, which is pretty similar to the first one,
but with different rhythms and vocals, more kick drums and a few risers.
And then, the final and last drop,
which has longer chordstacks, and intense vocals, but is otherwise pretty similar to the first one.
Lots of wubby basses to fill gaps and choppy percussion,
You know how it goes! :3
All in all, this has been pretty interesting,
because it differs so much from my usual workflow.
I hope you enjoyed this episode just as much as I did,
and otherwise, I'd like to thank my Patreons,
ThatsMyJam...
I hope you enjoyed this episode just as much as I did,
and otherwise, I'd like to thank my Patreons,
ThatsMyJam,
Fen Carter,
ScotcherDev,
Chantmagick,
Sora and ForenzaAudio,
for their generous support and I'll see you next time :3
Thank you <3
