We Came As Strangers Mixing Competition

[Scooter Trash]

I likely won't enter the competition, but here's my mix:





I added some guitar parts and part of the Martin Luther King "I have a Dream" speech.

[Endureth]

Nice Scooter, you should enter it man, sounds good.

[Scooter Trash]

Nice Scooter, you should enter it man, sounds good.

Thanks Endureth.. I just found out about this this morning and only spent about 3 hours on it.. but I went ahead and entered it.. 

[Scooter Trash]

Well everybody seems to have their own idea of what a remix is.

The song is a good song on it's own, you could do the banjo mix where the only real difference is that it has a banjo track. that's a new mix.

I'm not sure what they want or expect, I think it's anything goes, but I expect they want it recognized as the same song. IOW, not a new song with samples from their song placed in. and not a mashup of two songs.

I agree.. the "remix" thing is confusing because "remixed" songs are often actually re-produced and/or rearranged and not just remixed. But I think this contest includes all of the above.

Found this on YouTube, Justin explains what they expect:

[Endureth]

I believe you have full control with what you want to do with it, anything goes.  As long as the core of the song is intact.

[Cue Zephyr]

I agree.. the "remix" thing is confusing because "remixed" songs are often actually re-produced and/or rearranged and not just remixed.

For me personally, that's always been the definition. That might be because I started in EDM and have done remixes in that vein for years.

Found this on YouTube, Justin explains what they expect:
[video]

That's how I learned about the contest in the first place, did I miss something?

I have one of the concepts down right now, working on the instrumentation and arrangement. Instrumentation? Yes, I only kept the dry vocal track. I didn't even keep the chord progression the same, which caused some happy accidents.

I might be taking this a little too seriously.

Speaking of arrangement, does anybody else feel this song is rather 1) slow and 2) long? I say that because by now I've both shortened it and sped it up and it still seems to drag a little bit.

[Scooter Trash]

Found this on YouTube, Justin explains what they expect:
[video]

That's how I learned about the contest in the first place, did I miss something?

Apparently not. But if others, like me, found out about the competition here in this thread, it may be helpful to them. It also clears up what TBAV had wondered.

[mike42]

Speaking of arrangement, does anybody else feel this song is rather 1) slow and 2) long? I say that because by now I've both shortened it and sped it up and it still seems to drag a little bit.

I've shortened it, but I haven't sped it up. I'm working on adding some of my own playing but it's tough getting things to fit in with all the subtleties on the existing tracks. It's my first attempt at remixing something, so we'll see how it ends up working out 

By the way, has a deadline for submissions been announced? All I saw when I downloaded the stems was the date they are announcing winners.

[Cue Zephyr]

Found this on YouTube, Justin explains what they expect:
[video]

That's how I learned about the contest in the first place, did I miss something?

Apparently not. But if others, like me, found out about the competition here in this thread, it may be helpful to them. It also clears up what TBAV had wondered.

I see. I thought there might have been another source for a second.

Speaking of arrangement, does anybody else feel this song is rather 1) slow and 2) long? I say that because by now I've both shortened it and sped it up and it still seems to drag a little bit.

I've shortened it, but I haven't sped it up. I'm working on adding some of my own playing but it's tough getting things to fit in with all the subtleties on the existing tracks. It's my first attempt at remixing something, so we'll see how it ends up working out 

The subtleties in the track are actually improving my playing dynamics.

[_Avalon_]

Is there an ending date indicated somewhere ? I must be blind because I can't find any. If there is still some time I might try something for the fun.

[Cue Zephyr]

I suppose the closing date will be a few days before thee winners are chosen (July 18), so yeah, I'd say there's some time.

Good luck!

[_Avalon_]

Great! I will think about what I can do. Like you said, I think the song is rather slow, so I might speed it up, maybe rocking it up a bit too.

[TB-AV]

sounds good Mr. Trash.....

I've gotten slammed with work and had to put mine aside. I've tossed a piano in there...

Man yours is really laid back... I didn't think that song could get much more laid back.... nice one.

I had a damn midi feed back loop causing a drop out and I didn't think I would d ever find it.

[Scooter Trash]

sounds good Mr. Trash.....

I've gotten slammed with work and had to put mine aside. I've tossed a piano in there...

Man yours is really laid back... I didn't think that song could get much more laid back.... nice one.

I had a damn midi feed back loop causing a drop out and I didn't think I would d ever find it.

Thanks TB.

The song had kind of a dream-pop vibe to me and I didn't see any reason to change it much. I do wish I would have had the individual dry layers and not just the mixed stems though.. It's a kewl song.
I'm glad you got your drop-out issue sorted out. 

[TB-AV]

I've still got a ways to go but I think I see some light at end of tunnel.