To celebrate my nomination, I’ve decided to post some of my earlier works just to give a little insight as to how I’ve been developing. The following are the remixes that have Asian influences. I have other mixes involving music from other parts of the world as well as some fully original collaborations with a friend that predate all of these mixes and really got me started in doing what I do but I’ll save those for another time.

And in no particular order:

Monochrome Effect (SHAPE-UP mix)
In this minor instrumental makeover, I add a bit of hop, skip, and jump to the percussion and add a bit to the bassline. All in all, I wouldn’t really call this a remix but it spices things up just a bit.

A Sisters’ Lullaby
I can’t find the exact original to this song but below (left) is the best I can do via youtube. This song is originally from the South Korean horror movie “A Tale Of Two Sisters” and acts as the theme for the sad and mysterious story the sisters go through. This is an original arrangement and one of the few where I don’t use any samples from the original track. I figured out the piano by ear and added a bit more to what was already there. For those who follow the Beatmania IIDX series, I was really into “Injection of Love” (below, right) and found the whole electric cabaret genre intriguing. This is me trying to mimic that style, a bit slower, and with some gabber influences as well.

Chocolate Disco (johpan remix)
This was my first track with myself playing a live instrument, the guitar. It was a challenge for me to get everything working properly, having to download the proper software to get the proper input to work in what I was using, etc etc. Luckily, in the latest FLStudio, they’ve packaged everything so you don’t need to download ASIO4ALL separately. The johpan remix is actually me working off of an earlier skippy mix where I was playing with the way the bassline and hats effected the rhythm of the song. I should post that later but this is the slightly slower mix with less swing and more 8-bit love. I’m happy with how everything turned out, including my playing around with the panning during the 8-bit section.

Polyrhythm (Broken Sword Mix)
Here’s a fairly recently but unreleased mashup of Perfume technopop with Evol Intent, Mayhem & Thinktank’s “Broken Sword” which I originally heard from the Need For Speed: Most Wanted soundtrack. I ended up getting Dieselboy’s “The Human Resource” and heard it off that too. Nothing much to it. I just have this crazy appetite for mixing genres and this filled it quite well.

Love is forever (johpan remix)
Back in my days of Stickam, I stumbled into a Hardcore DJ going by the name Spunky. I’d lurk her room and play with my lights while she’d be spin some tunes and this was me trying to get played by her. She gave me a lot of feedback with this remix and it went through a lot of changes and me learning about balancing levels and finding what sounds right. I was happy with how it turned out but I never got played. Ah well. I haven’t heard from her in a while. I wonder how she’s doing.

love the world (johpan beta2 mix)
I actually posted this on here but it didn’t get its own post because it was just a beta mix. I haven’t touched it since then but I don’t think it matters all that much since it’s still fun to listen to. I didn’t really do too much to the song but it’s different enough to be interesting. If you wanted a little more of an explanation, take it to the comments. I really just wanna get this post up.

Before I go, I’d just like to say thanks again for the nods and may the best blog win!

So here’s the deal. During the Christmas break, us local cousins love to show our out-of-town cousins how we roll. We had an outing that consisted of a dinner of wings and beer then proceeded to go bowling. In the car I happened to be in, containing 3 other cousins and myself, two of us had a sudden urge to listen to Katy Perry’s Hot N Cold. We don’t know why. We just wanted to… but none of us had her CD handy and the radio wasn’t cooperating. Our appetite for Hot N Cold wasn’t satisfied. Upon returning home, I downloaded acquired her album and didn’t really listen to anything except Hot N Cold. Throughout the rest of my out-of-town cousin’s visit, I whored that song like I would anything from Perfume. The cousins and I noticed that Katy likes to emphasize the “You” during the chorus and I was reminded of Crank Than by Soulja Boy. We thought it would be hilarious if someone made a remix… which I did as soon as they left.

I managed to find a good studio vocal rip from the magic that is the interwebs and I kinda went crazy for a night. I started mixing Hot N Cold with songs of all sorts of genres and came out with these four tracks below:

Katy Perry vs. Soulja Boy – Hot N Cold (Crank That Remix)
Katy Perry vs. DJ Hazard & Distorted Minds – Mr. Hot N Cold
(Mr. Happy meets Hot N Cold in Drum and Bass style)
Katy Perry vs. Ikimono-gakari – Hot N Cold Romantic
(Kimagure Romantic meets Hot N Cold in JPop style)
Katy Perry vs. Perfume – love the Hot N Cold
(love the world meets Hot N Cold in TechnoPop style)

Comment and stuff. As usual. I love hearing about how much you hate Hot N Cold after you listen to these. :3

I put the Soulja Boy mashup on YouTube but I doubt I’ll get around to putting the other ones up. Enjoy here:

Anyway, what I was trying to accomplish with this mix was my desire for it to be in a technopop styling. Based on the start of the track, I thought it was going to. But no. This is me doing what I thought Tan Tan Taan would be, in my styling.

Sup.

This remix has been pretty heavily influenced by the dubstep genre which I’ve been listening to quite a bit, especially the works of XI. I love the smooth rumbling basslines and deep kicks of the genre and wanted to give Dream Fighter the real dreamy sound that I’ve had imagined for it. The heavy use of reverb does the trick to provide the dream-like atmosphere. For some weird reason, with the Aaa~ part cut into fragments, it sounds more like a string instrument.

Anyhow, enjoy this latest mix.

I just recently got around to acquiring most of Justice’s discography. I totally love their Electro style. It’s a bit slower than Nakata’s edgy electro style but has a lot of the same things I love about it while maintaining a presence of its own. I knew from when I started listening to Justice, I wanted to make a remix to D.A.N.C.E. Naturally, Chocolate Disco comes to mind when I think of dancing. Thus, this popped out.

Download. Enjoy. Comment. Love.

P.S.
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I wrote and composed 2 songs between now and the last post made here. If you’re interested in listening to them, post a comment. They are about people I’ve met and enjoy the company of in #wotachat.

The Husky Mix brings wobbly, fuzzy, and kinda deep bass and a commanding kick drum into the mix while trying to quiet down the original instruments without losing too much of the vocals. It’s vocally faster but feels slower.

Download Here: http://www.box.net/shared/3w9y636cgk

Comments please.

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- This is a mashup between Morning Musume’s Onna Ni Sachi Are and DJ Hazard and Distorted Minds’ Mr. Happy, Mr. Happy probably being my most favourite Drum and Bass song… ever.

- The only changes I made were tempo matching for Mr. Happy to 155 BPM which is Onna Ni Sachi Are’s original BPM. Oh and a few volume and EQ controls were fiddled with to optimize the sound.

- I cut up Mr. Happy so it would better fit Onna Ni Sachi Are but wouldn’t it be a perfect world if I didn’t have to?

Enjoy!

Anyway, two mashups for you right now:

Firstly, sorry I couldn’t think of an appropriate title for the first track but props to whoever can make one up in the comments. The first comment I find to be the “cleverest” will get the mp3 renamed in their honor for everyone downloading there after.

For a little background, I managed to not acquire a bunch of not flac files and not vocal rip a few of them and not layer them with a bunch of not instrumental tracks and the first track is not what I found to be the most interesting combination of the night. Tokaikko Junjyou’s vocals to Yattarouze!’s music.

C-ute vs. Ongaku Gatas – InsertCleverTitleHere.mp3

The second track was an idea I came up with after a random meeting someone with a similar love of my own for 12th notes during a random ITG session at my local arcade. I have a slight obsession with Seishun! LOVE Lunch. My expert stepchart consists of 12th note stream. EternuS is a DDR SuperNOVA 2 song which also has a lot of 12th notes depending on how one happens to chart it. I thought, “Hey… why not?” And the rest is history.

Athena & Robikerottsu vs. Sanxion7 – EternuS! LOVE Lunch.mp3

Also, Happy 20th Post to me!

A few notes before the link:

- This is a mashup using the music from Baby cruising Love by Perfume (so basically Nakata Yasutaka’s work) and the vocals from Renai Rider with some added instruments by yours truly.

- The song’s BPM is 160. Renai Rider’s BPM is 174 while Baby cruising Love is 128.

- I used Utagoe to rip the vocals from wave files and FLStudio7 to do the recording, arranging, and mixing.

- All the guitar in this song is me.

- I also did a little extra keyboard in the verses.

- I used a few stock instruments from VIPZONE and the drum loop during the middle part (you’ll know it when you hear it) was from a Drum and Bass Soundpack I just had lying around. Can’t remember who to credit for that one.

- Cover Art (for the lulz) by me using pictures obviously not by me. Special thanks to Perfume and Buono! for looking hot.

UPDATE 1: upon some further beta testing (listening on the commute to school) there are a few things I’ll probably be changing. I’ll keep this version up though and see what kind of feedback I get until I post up the newer ver. I’ll have to wait until I get home to start making changes though so there’ll be more than enough time for some to get their word in before Baby cruising Rider v2 comes out.

And without further ado…

Download Here!

http://www.box.net/shared/0ldadz7404

enjoy?
maybe!

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