Invisible World
Public School music teacher (high school vocal music & music technology). The screen name comes from the quote below, and is also a bit of a shout-out to Peter's "Secret World," which was a huge part of the soundtrack of my life while I was studying music in college. "Music is the harmonious voice of creation, an echo of the invisible world." - Giuseppe Mazzini
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Invisible World's Rainy Night on the Levee
Of Cold Hailey Rainy Night by The Imagined Village
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Uploaded 24 Sep 2009 17:34:17
Invisible World's Right Behind You Mix
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Uploaded 09 Oct 2007 19:32:38
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Glad you're still remixing after the first project! 
Some neat ideas in here; I think you nailed it in your own assessment - the cuts are a bit haphazard, and there's a lot of contrasting material. Maybe take one or two of your favorite ideas from this mix and rework them into a more cohesive mix?
Good job on your first mix!
Great relaxed (but moving) feel following the intro. The instrumental feature around 1:54 is a nice touch. Good work!
Good job on your first mix!
I like the punchy texture of the guitar and bass in your intro. The fadeout at 1:43 is a bit weird - it sounds like the song is ending, only to restart with the tambourine. Nice work overall!
Good job on your first mix!
Some great organizational ideas in here. I think you nailed it in your own assessment - a little more time lining up the edges of your cuts would be the best way to improve the overall execution. Keep up the good work!
Ah, here we go!
Very haunting texture you've created with the panning and phasing - the subdued brass punctuation is a nice touch. The bass synth entrance at 2:04 is a nice bit of darkness to start the new section. Very effective ending too. Well done!
Great first mix!
A lot of chopping and re-assembling of the vocal lines - well-executed!
Occasionally the vocal lines don't quite mesh harmonically with the bass/guitar lines underneath, but the dissonance is only momentary and the piece works well overall. I really like what you built around 2:08. Well done!
"I got a FEVAH. and the only prescription is more cowbell!"
Some nice work here - I particularly like the break around 1:45. A few of the instrumental entrances seem a bit haphazard (between phrases, etc.), but the more coherent section divisions work really well. (Love the ending - very effective!)
I like what I'm hearing so far - looking forward to hearing your corrected mix. (Hopefully it will be posted soon!)
Great first remix! Good hip-hop flavor in the beginning, and I particularly like the break at 1:48. It seems a bit strange to start the different feel at 2:28 only to quickly fade out - I would have liked to hear some more development of this. Still, well done overall!
Great first effort! Interesting use of Lord Jamar's rap interspersed with Gabriel's lyrics. A little more variation in the backing tracks would have been welcome. (The same riff gets a little tedious after awhile.) Some good ideas here!
Nice first effort! Good use of the Indian instrumentation in the opening. It's a little jarring when it comes back at 1:07 - maybe an adjustment in the track balance would help. Some great ideas at play in here!
Wow - a very dark, intense take on this track with the busy percussion! I also like the layering of the vocals. It's a bit disjointed at times - almost like there are the beginnings of three or four differently-styled mixes vying for attention. (Even so, each idea is pretty cool!) Great first effort!
Terrific first effort! I particulary like the funky feel of the opening. Some minor criticisms - a few of the transitions are a bit raggedy, and the drums beginning at 1:27 sound like they're clipping pretty badly. Adjusting the volume of the drum track and keeping an eye on your level meter will help. Good work!
Great first effort! I like the stripped-down treatment you've given the tune - at first I didn't hear too many departures from the original, but as the piece develops there are some nice surprises. (The guitar-driven chorus at 0:53, for example.) The balance could use some tweaking (to my ears, at least) - the vocals tend to overpower the guitars at times. Very good overall!
A nice bounce to this one. Some unexpected treats along the way.
Muy bien!
Very smooth & enjoyable take on this.
Some great stuff here - nice buildup in the intro, and good use of panning on the solo vocal/instrumental tradeoffs.
The mix is a little guitar-forward for me at times, especially in the beginning. (It evens out a good bit around 0:40.)
Like the guitar solo over the end and the fade to just voices!
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara collaborate with The Cars! Love it!
I like it!
(This must have been a fun project for you!)
Welcome! Some nice textures here, but calling it a remix of "Kele Kele" seems a bit of a stretch, no? The Apple Loops were more recognizable than any Adams/Camara material to my ears.
Thanks for the comments! I was surprised to find my two-year old mix back in the top twenty this week. The board moves in mysterious ways.
Your user name notwithstanding, I'd reeeeaaally like you to make a little more effort in lining up your samples with the beat You have some good ideas and find some neat sounds, but the execution can make the final product hard to listen to.
Good stuff - creative combination of different remix packs! Great groove and development throughout.
Nice guitar overlays! Beyond them, though, I'm not getting much of a sense of difference - the "feel" is awfully similar to the original track. I like your new material; I sort of wish that you had matched the guitar energy in the percussion part.
The section around 2:40 is a nice departure!
I really like the feel you've created! The vocals become a wonderful centerpiece to your soundscape. The fiddle break around 3:25 is also cool!
One small criticism - the drum entrance was almost painfully loud when heard through reference monitors - on small headphones, it just pushed the edge of thumpy, but on systems capable of producing more bass, it might be a bit over the edge.
Nice work! Good energy throughout; I might have thought about using a different drum kit at 1:42, but that may be my own bias against that analog synth snare sound against the more modern sounds in the rest of your mix.
Good work! I particularly like the faithful treatment of the original fading into your techno mix. (I'm less crazy about the bookend effect of the return at the end - to my ears, it would have been stronger to end with the new vibe you created.) Very cohesive and well-executed.
Nice work. The synth opening is my favorite - everything that was right with 80s music! I could have done without the constant synth pulse (I would have liked a little more contrast to punch up the bridge), but good stuff overall!
Major points for inventiveness! The march feel works well with the whistling, but my favorite part starts with the "if looks could kill" lyric.
Well done! Very recognizable as the original song, but with some nice tweaking (particularly the time-stretched vocals). Also some nice alternate harmonies under the vocals.
Some nice work in here - the simulated damage isn't really my thing (I think I would have preferred to have the sound clear up as the piece developed), but it's a cohesive mix and it sounds like you know what you want. I like the break around 4:05!
Like the African/techno fusion! High-energy and grooving. My only wish is that you had taken a break from the guitar strum for a little more contrast. Still, very effective overall.
"Silly red costumes."
Pure fun from start to finish! (Including the title!)
Love the piano chords with Afro-Cuban groove with that kicks in around 1:00! (And the section beginning at 1:39 is pretty tasty, too!) Very inventive treatment of the source material. Great sax solo - hard to tell that it's pieced together from loops!
Very suspenseful - love the panning on the drums. Hard to believe that this is all the original samples! (I can't imagine the time it took to put this together - Bravo!)
Fun and quirky!
Great ambient interp! I wasn't familiar with the idea of extreme sound stretching before - very cool.
Excellent! Reminiscent of some of PG's other collaborations, in a really good way! Very cohesive mix and a wonderful listen.
Well done reinvention of the source material! Very original.
Love it! Kind of a Daft Punk meets Nine Inch Nails vibe, but the final product is highly original! Nice tight production.
Great, immersive listening experience! Love the panning bass around 1:30.
Laid back, yes, but you've still got the "dark" going on! A fun listen!
Wow! You managed to make "Games" sound JOYFUL. Fantastic and highly original treatment, and very well-produced.
"Do not attempt to adjust your set." I'll chime in with the others - the sci-fi-esque opening is perhaps a bit overlong for my tastes, but the main body of the track is terrific. (I might have given a taste of the opening, and appended the rest on the end as a coda. But I'm not you!) Great work.
I'm listening through a pair of near-field reference monitors, and it sounds pretty good here! (Perhaps a bit bass-y on the thumping beat for listening, but ideal for the dance floor. Maybe the electro-toms at 2:26 might be a bit much for some people, but again it didn't really bother me. Kinda retro 80s!) Nice work!
Nice transformation of the source material! Strangely hypnotic vibe created over the high-speed drum loop.
Nice funky vibe - I like the break around 1:22.
Quite a different treatment for this! Eerie opening, and some nice touches with the guitar (and the good ol' reliable DX7!). A fun listen!
Nice stripped-down treatment - opening with the major chorus theme (rather than the original minor verse) sets up a relaxed, almost happy-go-lucky vibe - kind of Jack Johnson-esque.
I also like the layering of the vocals - well done! My only minor gripe is that I would have liked to hear even more original material.
Oops - make that "three years" in the remixer notes. (I've been using Garage Band for 5 years, but didn't stumble upon this site until my second year teaching the Music Tech course.) Once again - go ahead and be brutal in the comments - I'm a mere dabbler, and I know there a lot of pros out there!
Good work for your second mix! As Suzy1214 said, you've made some nice use of the pan capabilities (a lot of hard panning like the early 60s stereo records) for effect. The inconsistent timing of Gabriel's vocals is a bit off-putting to me, but I may just be expressing my bias since I'm so familiar with the original. Well-balanced overall.
What sounds flat to one listener can sound lush to another. Very relaxing vibe you've created!
Great vibe. I like the spacey-flute countermelody you have going on in the beginning. Very smooth in terms of production!
A very ethereal take on this track! I like the few discordant notes in the piano part - they re-engage me as a listener because they're so unexpected.
Great production! Not to my personal tastes as far as the lack of consonance between the accompaniment and vocals, but it seems from your title that you're well aware of that! Faked me out with the break at 2:50, too. A fun listen.
Very high-energy treatment! A fun listen.
Great soundscape you've created! I hope you'll keep going with your mixes once the class project is done; you're showing some real creativity.
Neat Cuban jazz fusion take on this! Your latin groove is so tight that it seems somewhat incongruous to hear the Bengali lyrics come in in the break. (I think I agree with colab's comment above in that respect.) Thanks for a listening treat!
Great driving vibe and layering of the vocals! Thanks for a great listen!
There's no smiley for prostrating myself at your feet in awe-filled admiration, so you'll have to settle for this:
The blues section is an incredible transformation of the source material. The second half, while perhaps more typical of what might be expected, is nevertheless interesting to listen to and incredibly well-produced. Bravo!
Great atmosphere - almost ominous in the intro. The major character at 1:12 was unexpected! Very cinematic with the use of effects and the contrasting sections. Thanks for sharing this very creative treatment!
Welcome! To my ears there is far too much going on at the beginning - the samples you've stacked up don't match harmonically. Around 1:00 you begin to craft something interesting with the repeated vocal snippets. There are moments that work well, especially from 2:29 to the end. I'd consider finding a few of these moments and crafting a more cohesive mix around them.
What a great treatment! (Love the use of the "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" drum riff as a bridge to the double-time.)
NIce mood created by the ping-ponging delayed guitars. I would have liked to hear some delay or reverb tail on the end so it didn't sound like we were suddenly in a different soundspace. (A bit abrupt after all the echoes and panning of the rest of the mix.) Thanks for sharing, even if there's no Duende involved!
Great tribal vibe in the beginning! The change at 3:13 seems a bit abrupt to me - I would have liked to hear some new material introduced earlier to help build to this point. Other than that (and that's only my personal opinion), a good tightly-produced mix!
Really nice treatment overall; great build to the climax. The drums sounded a little buried/muffled to my ears, not so much in terms of volume but in presence. Maybe a little compression to punch them up? Great job!
Great use of the major tonality! Love the eighties keyboard band vibe of the backing tracks. Very original treatment!
Certainly made me wonder what was going on at first! Cool and definitely unique once it got going. (Shock the Sevara?) Some really daring vocal transformations. Fun!
Errm, that's supposed to be "punctuated" in my post above. Sorry!
Ditto oggyb's comments re the percussion entry and the loop points 
, especially in the opening. A nice Indian vibe to it throughout, with some particularly great moments at your transitions from section to section. Props for all the work that must have gone into this; I haven't wrapped my head around the original tune yet to even think of tackling this one for a remix yet! Thanks for sharing!
Good groove - my personal bias tends toward more vocals; I would have like to hear them brought in earlier in the mix (you achieved some interesting effects with them once they were in). The percussion sounds a little overpowering in relation to the other instruments through much of the middle, but that may also be a function of the small speakers I'm stuck with at the moment. A fun mix overall!
Hooked me immediately with the intro! (And yes, the break is very effective.) Nicely done!
A great creative arrangement that suffers somewhat in the production execution - I agree with HaveMercy - the drums and keyboard sound a little too late eighties CasioTone for me! I'd love to hear this redone with beefier synth sounds. I really like the overall feel you've created.
Love the dark intensity you've created with the string pads! Reminiscent towards the end of PG's "Signal to Noise" in terms of the string usage and heavy drums, although not as much harmonic tension. Thoroughly enjoyed this mix from start to finish - thanks!
Great driving vibe created with the bass! Some of the vocal entries sound bit forced/clipped to my ears - maybe some judicious crossfading could clean this up. (This is really a nitpick on what is otherwise a great track in terms of production!) Thanks!
P.S. - Thanks for your encouraging welcome comments for my high school students on this forum!
Never would have pegged this tune as a triplet reggae! Neat work!
Great first effort! Ditto what the others have said with regard to balance - I'd love to hear the vocals more forward in the mix. I like the overall intensity of the instrumentation. Thanks!
Very atmospheric and somewhat unsettling in the approach! As others have said, I can hear it working quite nicely for a psychological suspense soundtrack. Some great unusual work here.
Some nice work with a stripped-down treatment of the opening. As colab stated, I'd like to hear you take some more chances with material other than the original samples. All in all, a good first effort!
A little spacey for my personal tastes, but it's cohesive - it sounds like you got what you were going for. Thanks for an interesting listen!
What a cool treatment! There's many moments of rhythmic ambiguity (even verging on bop swing around 1:50 or so) that give this an avant-garde jazz vibe at times. Neat listen - thanks!
Nice work - I like the way you let the vocals drive the whole treatment. Great first effort!
Some nice moments in here. It's a bit uneven/scattershot in the treatment - some kind of unifying element to help bridge the sections would be welcome. Good first effort!
A nice stripped-down treatment. I would have liked to hear the introduction of some original material. Good work overall!
Good reorganization of the samples - some nice textures you've created.
Good work! I like the clearly defined sections providing contrast. The re-entry of the vocals at 2:25 was unexpected and very effective!
Good work! The off-tempo deep bass on the beginning was verging on distraction, but the contrast you provide from 1:13 to 1:33 works nicely (great use of the backing vocals in an exposed texture there.) Some terrific moments in this mix.
A nice treatment. I agree with Pegasus about 1:40 - I would have liked to hear some of that original character emerge earlier in the piece. It's a fresh feeling when it finally hits!
Nice use of the original samples. The opening's a little disjointed, but it seems to lock in around 0:55. The entry of the bass at 1:21 is a nice unexpected texture, but the off-tempo shaker and continuation of the bass line becomes somewhat distracting to my ears. Some nice moments in this!
Great atmospheric opening! I agree with the earlier posters that the intermittent fuzz-box distortion on the vocal track is somewhat distracting. The fx at 1:34 didn't bother me because they seemed to fit with the "wandering in the vast sunlit forest" vibe. All in all, a neat bit of sound painting!
This one definitely grew on me as it went! Love what happens at 0:48 with the energy from the percussion and vox. Unique!
Good for you for taking chances with loops/samples other than the original tracks. Some great ideas in here - taking one or two of them and running with them might give you a more cohesive final product - this feels a bit scattershot.
Great funky, stripped-down vibe in the beginning - I would have liked to hear that be developed more throughout, rather than mellowing into something that sounds more or less like the original. I like the exposed vocals & shaker that happens around 3:00, and also the brief return of the funky feel at the end.
Nicely done! I agree with colab that the second half seems to lock in better than the opening.
Not that Sevara's voice needs any messing with, but I could imagine adding a touch of vocal fx processing to better match the spacey vibe of the opening synth effects.
Great consistently stylistic interpretation! There's a great feeling of forward movement and growing intensity as the song progresses, puctuated by the break at 1:42. The vocals seemed a little low in the mix to me at the beginning, and the e. piano and synth snare were overly present to the point of distraction. The balance seemed to improve as the song went on. Enjoyed this - thanks!
Nice work - I like your usage of the backing vocals, and the fadeout of the background tracks at the end is effective. I'd have liked to hear some variation in the percussion and some original material to liven things up a bit.
Thanks for the encouragement, Susy1214! My one real regret is that once I read the translation of the lyrics after completing the mix ("our two paths are now one road"), I would have chosen to bring the two voices together rather than end with the canon. Oh well, my fault for not doing my research first!
Love the late seventies slow jam vibe of this! Holds together really well stylistically.
Nice relaxed, funky vibe with the minimalist bass!
A few of the cuts (particularly in the acoustic guitar) are a bit stuttery (off-time). I like the jazzy acoustic guitar break, but I wonder if it could be woven in a bit more smoothly so it doesn't seem like the start of a new song. Good first effort!
comment added to somedude's Remix on 2009-11-17 17:49:18