Hello again everyone. As I had mentioned on another thread, Peter Gabriel is holding a remix contest for his song "Shock The Monkey" on his website for Real World Records.

He released the original multi-track audio of the song for download, and let people do anything and everything they wanted in order to remix it.

I went to work and spent a long time playing, tracking, mixing, etc. and now the work is finally done. Just to make others aware, this is not your ordinary remix, and the style may not be to taste, so try to keep an open mind. If you are interested and can spare a few minutes, please go here to listen:

http://www.realworldremixed.com/remix.php?remix_id=lxQuYuCTPbeyB1JX

Also, if it's not too much trouble for some of you to vote, or post feedback, I would very much appreciate it as it could very well determine if I win, lose, or even place in the contest.

For that you will need to create an account (free of course, and no spam). It a pretty cool site if you are into music, and there is some cool remix work being done there.

I took note of critiques pople at this site gave to my last mix, and tried to correct where I could. There is zero compression on the drum this time, though you -might- hear some high frequency loss/artifacts as well as some phase issues in places because the contest rules mandated that I upload a heavily compressed 128kbps MP3 in order to fit under the 4.5MEG file size limit.

Of course, Sonar 5 Producer was the platform of choice for this monster of a file (300+ tracks & 13.2 GIG of audio data) and the full details are listed on the Real World Records site where my track is posted.

Thanks again for those who took time to comment on, and complement my previous work. It helped to keep me going.

THANK YOU! :)

-PSO

Wowza--Fascinating---Um, an interesting read through the comments posted at that site too. There are gremlins everywhere there's a bulletin board I'm afraid. And I mean Everywhere--including some Cakewalk Forums. ahem.

Amazing accomplishment. Hope you win that contest! Hope you get to hang out with Peter Gabriel too. 8-)

Randy
rbowser

"DORIAN GRAY"
Original Cast Album
My stage musical opening in Moscow, Russia

Thank you very much!

Yes, you are right about trol..err, Gremlins. Some people just have a bad day and have to spread the love ;-)

Winning the contest would be amazing, as would meeting Peter Gabriel. Amazing! I suppose if I get enough votes and good feedback, he will at least hear my mix and I might have as good a chance as any, though I don't know if he will favor something more dance or electronica oriented? I guess we will see if it gets that far. Special thanks to you for listening, and to anyone else who stops by to listen, or rate my mix.

Thank you!

Lot of intricate parts woven.Very good quality.Nice singing.Full of energy.One of the best songs I have ever heard.

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Thank you very much Chasekh! That's a heck of a complement, and makes me feel very great inside.

I agree with you... the singing is fantastic! ;)

I would love to have Mr. Gabriel in the studio more often.

Hi Sean,

I thought you did a damn fine job on this - I saw some comments on the site and thought they missed the whole point. It's what you, the re-mixer, hears in the song that makes the experiment interesting. Very detailed, well thought out work.

James

Thank you James for your support, it really helps me keep my chin up.

I am glad you enjoyed my work.

-PSO

Hey, Sean. I've added your mix to my faves. Really good work. And thanks for your kind words for mine.

"Doghouse"

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You and your crew deserve the praise, Yoropal (A.K.A. "Doghouse")

:-)

Really a well produced, fun mix with great energy. That Melodine work is great.

Thanks for supporting my mix also.

-PSO

Woo, cool,

I think this is very nice...
My monkey is shocked.

Thank you SixString! That means a lot to me. :-)

-PSO

Hey Sean, looks like we're dukin' it out over there at Pete's Place. Inside the top five!! Congrats!


ps: whaddya know about this Loveshadow fella?...he's turned in more mixes (most pretty good) than, as we say down here, Carter has little liver pills.

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Thanks Doghouse! Congrats to you also.

If you have an e-mail addy, I'll PM you with the other details.

-PSO

That's a hell of a production. Well played, well arranged, well mixed. I do hip hop so I skipped the PG, but I'm remixing the Los De Abajo track even though there's nothing to win. I'll be happy if my track is half as good as yours.

Sean*O ,
I checked out yours and your buddy's..( who's pointing his pea shooter avatar with no brass in the chamber )
Man you guy's ain't BS'ing around over there.
Your tracks are very well done ,
Best of luck to you in the comp,
I would say you and yorolpal got some mean chops going on ...in your respective submisions.
Kenny

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=427899

Sonar 6.2 PE.
Project 5 V2.5.1

JTwin, Thank you for the complement! Be sure to drop a line when you remix is done, as I would like to hear it.

Kenny, Thank you also for the encouragment! I put everything I had, and then some more into that mix... much of it was a learning process for sure. I am VERY happy that it is being so warmly received overall.

Here's to hoping it continues it's good run and makes it to Peter Gabriel's ears!

Any votes/top 10 slots or comments anyone can throw my way over at the Real World site are greatly appreciated, as are your kind words here. I am sure ol' Doghouse feels the same way

Thanks again!

-PSO

Hey Sean, tried to email you. Did it get to you? If not just let me know.

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EDIT: I have received your e-mail yorolpal, Thanks!

-PSO

A Music Video for this mix has been posted by a very generous member of Real World.

Real World Records forum member 'Charisma' has sprung a very nice surprise for the top 3 mixes on this weeks Real World Top 20 chart.

She has taken these three mixes and set them over footage of the original 'Shock The Monkey' video. Let me tell you all, this monkey was shocked! And very happy to see his work set to video like this.

There is a post about it over in the Real World Records forum, and the direct link to the three videos is here: http://www.charismapro.co.uk/gabriel.htm

Simply click on the image of Peter Gabriel below the title to start the video, or right-click>save as.

Special thanks again to 'Charisma' for the honor, and of course, thanks to Peter Gabriel!

-PSO

Yea, she was gonna do mine but there weren't no nearly naked dancin girls in Pete's video or any 6 piece horn section. Tough luck for ol Doghouse, eh?

But great for you, ol pal. It looks great!

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LOL! I was actually imagining her doing one for you House'

I would still like to see it done. Maybe she will do another top 3 next week... looks like you are sure to be there the rate you are going.

Hey Sean*O,
pretty cool videos, thanks for the links.
saw all three, all different approaches , educational to see that , thanks man.
best of luck to you.
Kenny

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=427899

Sonar 6.2 PE.
Project 5 V2.5.1

Hey Kenny

I agree, Charisma did a great job. I saw all 3, and I think she actually did a more interesting cut with Andy's (Hugobass) because it used more bits of footage. Still, there were parts that worked better in the one she made for me than the ones she made for Multiman and Hugobass, and vice-versa. It's really cool because the videos for each of us are so different. Thanks for the good Karma.

-PSO

This is one kick ass remix

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Exile Collection available on iTunes

Thanks Ed! Thanks for the complement

I checked out your soundclick page.. good stuff over there.
Keep rockin it!

-PSO

ORIGINAL: Sean*O

Thanks Ed! Thanks for the complement

I checked out your soundclick page.. good stuff over there.
Keep rockin it!

-PSO

You're welcome- I'm a big old PGabriel fan!
And Thank YOu
More to come .....

http://www.myspace.com/edmclaughlin
http://cdbaby.com/cd/exilecollection3
http://www.exilecollection.com
Exile Collection available on iTunes

Looks as though our videos were taken down, and the thread about them was deleted from the Real World forums. Legal team probably had a problem with it.

Thanks to those of you who tuned in while they were still posted.

Yea, Sean, sorry. Hope you got a download before they went Pffffft!

Also, ifn ya don't mind ol Doghouse would like to add his link to this ol thread.

http://www.realworldremixed.com/remix.php?remix_id=RB5KSyWFKHMQRCBS

Thanks

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No problem at all my friend. ^^

Everyone reading, please be sure to also check out ol' Doghouse remix linked above.

It's truly an excellent work with stellar production values.

-PSO

Dude!

Outstanding.

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