-Shock The Monkey- Remix posted, please listen and vote

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

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.

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"

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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 .....

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

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.

Thanks Clyde! (That's assuming you were addressing me, and not ol' Doghouse of course)

My mix seems to have come down with a rash of 1-star votes today. Any help I can get in the voting over there is surely appreciated. September 30 is the end of the contest. The weekly top 20 chart that is compiled this Sunday should be the final one of the competition. If I can keep a solid place in the weekly top 20 going into the end of the contest, that could really up my chances of Peter hearing my mix.

The same goes for Doghouse, who also has a realistic shot at having his mix heard.

Thanks for keping up the support everybody! It's a wonderful gift!

-PSO

Went ahead and voted for you. Have to tell you though, VERY good competition your up against. Even the guy in the 20 spot has a absolutely killer mix.

September 30 is the end of the contest.

I want to enter this thing but I think I'm maybe too late in finding out about it. I don't know. It sounds like what you are basically saying is that if you aren't in a high position, like in the top 20-30, your chances of Peter actually listening to your mix are pretty slim, thereby drastically reducing your chances of winning. True?

Thanks Everyeleven. I agree about "dqsky's -Monkey from China" mix being a great one.. it's been in my personal favorites list over there since I first heard it

I'll try and explain the scoring to the best of my current knowledge.

When the contest started out, everything was going to be judged by peer ratings (stars.) After a little while, they added another priority to the scoring system -personal top 10 lists-

My understanding is that now, personal top 10 lists may be even more important than the stars. Everyone who logs in, in addition to voting, also has the option to add songs they like to their personal top 10 list and their personal favorites list. The top 10 list can be re-arranged at any time, with the number one spot being given 10 points, #2 = 9 points, #3 = 8 points, etc. They say they will compile the numbers at the end of the contest to determine a final 12 mixes that way.

So while it would be advantageous for you to post your mix at an earlier time, it still has a shot at making it onto everyone's top 10 lists, provided they get a chance to listen to it and place it on their personal top 10 list before October 4, 2006. Though the deadline for submissions to the contest is September 30, they will allow a few more days for everyone to listen to all the mixes and manage their top 10s.

I hope that explains things a bit better. That's about all I know of the scoring system at this time. The reason I think that having a strong spot on the weekly top 20 list would help, is because of visibility. However, even if you don't make it up before the final top 20 list is compiled, there is always the chance your mix could be "Hotpicked" by the Real World people, and your mix would gain visibility that way.

So I'd say get your mix up ASAP, but try not to cut too many corners if you can. You still have a shot, so go for it!!!



-PSO

Like Sean says, the competition's rating system is a bit of a Rube Goldberg affair. And tho you're right, everyeleven, that there are many great mixes you should notice that nobody...not even the current number one has more than a 3 star rating. Nobody. That either means that there's not much agreement about ANY mix there or that there's just a lot of folks who rate very good mixes with very poor ratings. It's a wacky place. I think the "top ten" has been instituted to help prevent most shenanigans from happening. In other words each individual has 10 votes and that's it. Way more fair and appropriate. Sure there's still room for fraud but no system is "cheat proof". My only advice to anyone whose contemplating turning in a mix at this late date is hurry. It needs to be up long enough for enough folks to both hear it and place it in their top ten. That and don't put one up unless you can stand some serious criticism and rejection cause you're likely to get a heap of that too. But like my alter ego ol Doghouse Riley would say: Time's a wastin chillun, get to mixin!

So you're Doghouse...

That has got to be one of the funniest things I've heard. It's just so...so... I don't really know what. But it's so well done that it cracks me up. Overall, I'd have to say yours might be my favorite, only because it's so "off-topic" and unexpected, without going off into lala land. Sorta.

Patrick ain't too far behind though...

Ol Doghouse takes all that as a compliment. I think. Woof!

Thank you Steve!

wow, man nice mix..I always liked this song and you did it Justice.

Thanks... again, SixString

-PSO

Right, getting in with four hours to go til the deadline, I finally got this mixed today:

http://www.realworldremixed.com/remix.php?remix_id=w6iar0cThFSltXI1

Been at it for seven hours, not to mention the countless hours over the last few weeks. Any comments most welcome, whether here or on the RealWorld site.

And with that, I'm off to the pub. I'm going to come back to this thread tomorros and rate everyone else's mixes over at realworld; bit of Sonar solidarity :)

Hi John Glad you could make it in before the deadline. Great mix! Hopefully everyone reading this thread will check it out. You might also want to start another thread about it, because many people probably think this thread is just more of my monkey... would not want any to miss your work because it deserves to be heard. But your link is certainly welcome here.

I just read the comments you left for me at Real World, and I have to say, Thank You! I am glad you liked the way the vocal fit in with the music, because I tried the best I could to write the music around it in a believable way.

We'll see if we get to go before Peter G. this Wednesday, October 4.

Cheers!

-PSO

Yeah, it sounds like you made a serious effort on that front. I wouldn't want to be undiplomatic, but to me, a lot of the mixes on there sound like people have just strapped some of their own music to the vocal, without really thinking about it compositionally. And I really don't like those much, even though some of them are very polished. There are some that are way more amateur, but a lot more inspired, if you know what I mean.

But I think the ones I like the best are, unsurprisingly, the ones that marry a good idea to a good execution, which I think yours did.

Sorry I've only just got around to rating. I've actually listened to all the ones on this thread a few times now, but not had time to rate and add comments. But now I'm done with my own, I'm going to do some proper voting and commenting tomorrow and Monday.

Really, Really, Really, IMPRESSIVE!!!

This is such and interesting song to mix.

Hearing your well done effort has inspired me to check this out..Thanks for the info.

Hey there Dave, THANK YOU!!! I am glad you liked it. I went to your myspace page (your black cat looks just like mine) and listened to your 3 songs, and I have to also say, your stuff is great. You have a very Dylan-esque vocal quality, and your guitar playing sounds really tight and polished.

Thank you again for listening to my remix and giving me your support.

-PSO

Hey there Mr. Music, Thanks to you also. Sorry I missed your post, as I was typing a response at the time yours was posted.

Sorry to say, but the deadline for submissions to this contest has passed. However, you can still download the 'Shock The Monkey' sample pack and post your remix. Also, we may see another PG remix pack soon, maybe even another contest.

Thanks for your support! Let me know if you post a remix so I can give it a listen. Best of luck to you,

-PSO

Hmm... just been through this... I was sure there were more remixes from Sonar people than just Sean's and yoropal's. Did I imagine it?

I was sure there were more remixes from Sonar people than just Sean's and yoropal's. Did I imagine it?

Here's one... Features Peter Gabriel VariPhrased and the use of SessionDrummer2

huge props for the amount of work put into this - 300 hours!!!

it sounds very pro. well done.

Mighty good, LabDog, mighty dang good. Loved the ambience and the groove and the use of the other sample packs. Ol Doghouse says, sic em!

Thanks, I appreciate the comments, I wish I'd have been more keen on the fact that the deadline hinged on a +6hr time differential, somehow that just didn't clearly dawn on me.

They should've had some kind of clock on the site to make it blatently clear and impossible to inadvertantly overlook. So yeah...I'm kinda bummed about that, but at least people get a chance to check it out right...

BTW "Monkeying Around" is freakin genius work and amazing use of melodyne!


LabDog

Thank you, Scar!!

It did take me a long time to do. I guess that's just what happens when you are learning many things as you go... which I was.

I checked out your myspace page, and was enjoying your mixes earlier this evening. I like the KISS one a lot. It's really catchy the way you have layed everything out. Nicely done.

I like your avatar also

-PSO

Third place to yorolpal!

Congratulations.

Get's a mention from PG on the video clip:
http://www.realworldremixed.com/competition.php

Congratulations to Doghouse Riley (AKA yorolpal)

Looks like my work did not make the cut in the end (with Mr. Gabriel). Though as of this post, Real World Remixed have still not released the final top 12 list, only the 5 finalists chosen from that list by PG himself.

I am thankful for all of the extremely supportive feedback I have been given here, as well as on the Real Wold Remixed page. I hope to be able to continue writing music and posting it for other's enjoyment in the future.

Congrats once again to yorolpal, and the rest of the finalists! Also congrats to those who were not in the top 12 but received special notice from Peter Gabriel. All my best guys & gals

-PSO

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