Here it is! My take on the G-Pal classic, in a 09 mainstream house fashion, combining elements from today's club music with the amazing melody from the original track. I didn't include any of the original vocals by AMX because I think they wouldn't sound as good in this style.
The original is such an amazing club track, light years ahead of its time, though when it came out I thought it needed some extra drums and some vocals to fit better in a mainstream set, and so I added some drums and the acapella from the Eddie Amador classic House Music. Here is the result:
The first one of those in an exapmle of how a good remix idea doesn't need too much work to have a good result. I made it after the request/idea of a friend (and one of my mentors - Akis Vavaroutas), and because it came out quite nice, I made the second one in the same style a month later.
These were made at a time when mashups and home-made remixes were a rare thing, especially in Greece. When I hear them I can't believe they are more than 10 years old, I remember making them like it was last year. I'm very proud of them, even though most are full of tonal-musical and production-mastering errors. They are quite simple, but each of them took hours of really hard work because the software that was available at the time couldn't even match up to the worst freeware sequencer/sampler software of today. I didn't make youtube videos for these, so here are the download links:
Every amateur remixer/producer has tried to mess with this ultra-classic tune, and I've done it twice! The first mix was an attempt at a kind-of-big-beat remake using some Leftfield samples as well, and I made the second one when electro house was starting to shape up as a genre and become mainstream. I had played the second mix so many times, that at some point I got tired of it and then created Mix 3.
Yeap, this is a saxy remake of the famous trance classic by Barthezz. I just added sax and bass over the wonderful drum track by Roger Sanchez (Transatlantins - Mysteriosa Dub) and then I added the "Turn Up That Stereo" acapella by Housology.
We had sooo much fun making this one, like two stupid litlle kids wanting to play with the same toy... It has a much harder sound than the original and it is totally club-oriented. We made it an official entry at the Anna Vissi remix contest, but it seems like there is still a judging process going on (since June 09). Guess we didn't win, but we had a great time making it!
I came up with this while browsing through my 90s music folder, I just thought those vocals would fit brilliantly over a reggaeton beat (and they did!). The "Summer mix" has 2 reggaeton breaks, the "No More Versions Version" has one (bigger) reggaeton break.
I think it's fair to start this blog with my most known work. While most people say this is my best mix ever, I must disagree and say it was just a brilliant idea (that I had while playing with the original over Rob Boskamp's "Get Your Ass Up")
