Mwah's "Monkey Hear Monkey Bang Drum" Remix
of Shock The Monkey by Peter Gabriel
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Uploaded 10 Aug 2006 13:33:19
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Remixer Notes
Always loved the song, but the Linn Drum/Fairlight CMI sounds started sounding a bit dated in a few years (not Peter's fault, though). So I started to wonder what would happen if there were more "acoustic" or "real" sounding instruments.
As it happened, I found an old midi file of the "Monkey" from pre-mp3 days and used it (after editing and groove quantizing) as the basis for the new version, and added some Bollywood sounding percussion tracks. Syncing the vocals to the new "band" was, of course, a hassle, but sometimes a sample in a "wrong" place sounded interesting enough to be a keeper. I had plans to add some real guitar to the midi-based tracks, but the song was getting pretty busy already.
I've had fun with this, hopefully you have fun too! Thanks for listening.
- Mwah alias J. Pekka Mäkelä
Technical Information
No loops! All the samples are single hits. Most of the percussion instruments come from "Yellow Tools: Pure drums", "Soundscan: Acoustic Percussions" and "EMU ESI-32 CD-ROM 16" collections (latter two translated to Giga format). GigaStudio 2.54 as a sampler, Sonar 5 Studio as a midi editor.
After everything was bounced to audio, tracks were imported to the n-Track Studio 4, my main DAW (yes, I know Sonar would work too, but I'm used to nTS) for mixing and stuff. At this point, the PG vocal parts were added to the mix, synced, chopped, moved, re-synced etc. Most of the effects were from UAD (Pultec EQs, LA-2A compressors, Plate 140 reverb, Dimension D) with some sonitus:fx modulation effects and an extra reverb. I tried to maintain a sort of "band in a room" illusion, so nothing radical here. Mixed it up to stereo, compressed the results a bit, run it through Digitalphisphones Dominion, trimmed the beginning and the end (in Adobe Audition) and converted to 44/16 and mp3. And again a few times, until it sounded pretty much right. That's pretty much it.
Comments
I really enjoyed this. I appreciate the original sounds.
Playing instruments? Now that's different (not really fair, as there are a lot of talented musicians on this site - but there's so much loopy electronica). I like this. Production's a little small scale sounding, which dwarfs it when your listening to lots of mixes in succession (trying to rate the lot before Sept 30!). Still really appreciate the effort that went into making this. Nice work!
Esseq, I see your point about "small-scaleness", but that's something what I was aiming for. Reverb's a good servant but a lousy master. 
While I do play instruments (bass, some guitar and percussion) here is nothing that is "played". Everything's sampled and sequenced.
I like it. Monkey straight outta' the bush.
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Listening to the others, I find I've been much more conservative. The main boddy of the remix is pretty close to original (albeit with slightly different instrumentation). The intro and the outro are bit more different, though.![:-]](smilies/embarrased.gif)
Comment added by Mwah on 2006-08-14 15:56:43