Oh yes, I have just attempted my first remix.  The assignment was “Opposites Attract” where the goal was to bring together two songs from two very different genres to create a completely new song.

I had recently just found out about Wugazi, which was a mashup that was done of the Wu Tang Clan’s album “36 Chambers” and Fugazi, a DC punk band from the early 90s.  I loved what they did and that was my inspiration for the above track.  Here’s Wugazi.

I started by listening to a lot of my music listening for beats that would be similar enough to each other that they could be put into the same song.  That took a LONG time.  Overall this assignment was very difficult.  I tried to learn how to do vocal isolation, but it is incredibly difficult for even seasoned professionals (which I certainly am not).  I eventually settled on Long Arm’s “Power of Rain” and A$AP Rocky’s “Brand New Guy.”  They were similar enough in beat and A$AP’s rapping actually synced up pretty well with the beat from Long Arm.

I put them both into audacity and then trimmed out the portion I wanted to use.  From there I changed the decibels to make Power of Rain a little louder.  Then I fooled around with a few effects that I can’t really even recall to alter the track and make it sound more professional… but that didn’t work so well.

A very difficult assignment.  I wish I could have done something to take the music out from A$AP’s track, but it just proved too difficult.

7/7 Stars down.