Foals Remix Contest

OliQ · Post by **OliQ** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:10 pm

Anyone else entering the Foals Remix contest on last.fm?

My Remix is here if anyone wants to listen....

http://www.last.fm/music/Foals/_/Electr ... Q+Remix%29

Kind of distorted electro version.... All the info on entering is here:

http://www.last.fm/group/foals

OliQ · Post by **OliQ** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:26 am

Is no one on the forum involved in it? I'm suprised!

mdk · Post by **mdk** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:47 am

never heard of em before. still i'll give it a go.

OliQ · Post by **OliQ** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:51 am

Really? They are really big in the UK at the moment, a very hyped band. Although justifiably I think..

mdk · Post by **mdk** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:06 am

fortunately i dont live in the UK anymore

had a listen to their tunes, not my thing at all, but i prefer to try and remix stuff i dont like..its more interesting.

see the light · Post by **see the light** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:32 am

OliQ wrote:Really? They are really big in the UK at the moment, a very hyped band. Although justifiably I think..

Foals aren't that good surely, they were absolutley gash last time i saw them, something about being surrounded by 15 year olds with stupid hair cuts puts me off seeing bands like this...however, i do think the album has some great parts.

are the stems for this song only available from last.fm?

chrisedmo · Post by **chrisedmo** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:50 am

Im trying to remix this as well as Radiohead... but i don't have the time for anything at the moment.. groan.

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:23 pm

None of this for me! Foals = garsh.

Anyroad; am still battling through doing remixes of NIN's "Year Zero" and "Ghosts"

mdk · Post by **mdk** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:47 pm

the acapella part is stupid, multitracked vox and soaked in delay.

they should have made loops from the other parts to keep the download smaller and left the vocal clean..in fact it should be offered as 2 parts, one with just the vocals and one with the rest as im not going to use the backing track at all..

meh.

OliQ · Post by **OliQ** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:47 pm

see the light wrote:
OliQ wrote:Really? They are really big in the UK at the moment, a very hyped band. Although justifiably I think..
Foals aren't that good surely, they were absolutley gash last time i saw them, something about being surrounded by 15 year olds with stupid hair cuts puts me off seeing bands like this...however, i do think the album has some great parts.

are the stems for this song only available from last.fm?

=) I can see why that might put you off! I'm quite a fan of them, although the original of this track I'm not that keen on, made it an interesting one to remix though...

The Stems are only on last.fm, they are all wavs tho and free, unlike the Radiohead one, I can't believe them making people pay for the stems for a competition, do they not make enough money already?

OliQ · Post by **OliQ** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:48 pm

mdk wrote:the acapella part is stupid, multitracked vox and soaked in delay.

they should have made loops from the other parts to keep the download smaller and left the vocal clean..in fact it should be offered as 2 parts, one with just the vocals and one with the rest as im not going to use the backing track at all..

meh.

Yeh Shame they left the delay on, its made a lot of the remixes sound very similar...

mdk · Post by **mdk** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:36 pm

OliQ wrote:Yeh Shame they left the delay on, its made a lot of the remixes sound very similar...

thats true, most of the ones i heard were very similar..

its not too bad i just stuck a gate on the vocals and its cutting out most of the delay, and im just sticking them through a different reverb / delay so what leaks through doesnt affect it too much..

apart from the delay though, whats up with the massive silence on the start of each track. talk about wasting bandwidth.

stonee · Post by **stonee** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:46 pm

i have the project folder sitting on my desktop. maybe I'll get to it later.

OliQ · Post by **OliQ** » Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:47 pm

yeah you can tell they haven't done a contest like this before!