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Remix
Competition - 1999 - Remix Number 23 |
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Orbital
Track |
Impact |
Remixer |
Smith
aka sMiVeRz |
Remix
Name |
Impact
by me, parts 1 and 2 |
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Why
did you choose this track(s) to remix ? |
Originally I was going to do
Nothing Left. However, what I had done didn't have a beginning
or ending - just a middle! Pretty useless really. So I decided
to do "Impact", a long-term favourite of mine.
I selected this track because it's catchy. It's lively. You
can nod your head to it. With its "cascading chords" using
*That* sound, it was the first tune of theirs which really
made me smile the first time I heard it.
At first it was just going to be a "part 1" as it was fairly
long. So I took some stuff out, made it a little shorter so
a part 2 would fit on the end comfortably. Eventually I think
I got the balance about right - it captures the main components
of "Impact" and I left out some details so it wouldn't be
cluttered.
It's not based on any particular -version- of Impact. I sequenced
it the way I have because it felt natural to do so. Unlike
some more complex Orbital songs, you don't have to "think"
what should come next. I found that it "wrote itself", as
it were. |
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Who
are your musical influences ? |
Orbital, The Beloved, Finitribe,
Cabaret Voltaire, Kraftwerk, early Pet Shop Boys (before they
went off in the dancey direction) and numerous songs in the
80's/early 90's which I don't know the artists! |
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Musical
equipment/software used ? |
Atari
STe running Cubase Score 2 (1% used)
PC running Cubase VST 3.6r2 (99% used)
Roland Juno-106 synth
Roland JX-3P synth
Roland/Boss DR-660 drum module
Roland D-110 synth module
Yamaha PSS-780 keyboard
Cranky Studiomaster SessionMix 8-channel desk.
At the end of the day, the mixer was looped back into the
computer so that VST was able to record everything. The resulting
Wave file was then top-and-tailed using CoolEdit 96 before
being written to CD. |
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Favourite
Orbital Track |
Hmmm... there are so many tunes,
they're all great. For an ultimate favourite though.... I
don't know. It would have to be a battle between Chime, Impact,
Out There Somewhere and Mock Tudor. Aaaaagh, what about Sad
But True? Oh I don't know!!
I give up. Chime is my most favourite. |
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