As regular readers will know, we’ve been running a remix competition lately. I can now, finally, unveil the winners! We had a deluge of excellent entries, and in some cases were left in a position where we simply couldn’t limit ourselves to posting just one tracks, such was the brilliance of the other entries. Here are the winners, and be sure to check out the MySpace/Soundclouds of these guys because a lot of these are just one of many excellent tracks they’ve produced. I’d keep all these guys on your radar, we’re fully expecting a few of them to make it big real soon!
Also, to those of you who haven’t won this time around, don’t give up because there have been some truly exceptional tracks not included here. We are likely to be running similar posts to this in the future so please continue to enter! This hasn’t come out exactly how we expected so I’m just going to post all the one’s we liked rather than specific winners for each track.
Matt Fox Vitamin
In this remix, Matt Fox takes dubstep to it’s filthiest extremities, in stark contrast to the high pitched vocals from Mika. If you like dubstep this will be right up your street, if you aren’t a particular fan it isn’t the best place to start.
Culture of Thieves Vitamins
This takes a slightly different tone from the track above, and may be better for new listeners. The wobble is more blended into the tune. I guess it comes down to personal preference and what the situation is as to which track you prefer.
Similar to the previous track as you would expect, the main difference is that this is a remix of a more conventional guitar based song than Mirrors Edge which uses keyboards.
Tagalog Vitamin
Tagalog seems to be something of a newbie, I literally know nothing about him/her and they didn’t provide us with a Myspace in their entry. Tagalog is the national language of the Philipines though, so maybe they’re from there? Anyway, enough of my speculation, this is a minimalist remix, with reworked drums giving the song a more tropical feel, while the instrumental parts are complimented by minimal wobble and the use of synthbass sequencing (I think.)
CityMuk Vitamins
The only mashup entry also happened to be one of the best, lending an intersting chillwave angle to the Biggy classic.
RA & PR1ME Vitamins
My personal favorite entry is RA’s remix of Marc Moulin’s obscure 70′s Belgian track Moulin. It takes it from cool laid back jazz to something altoghether more club friendly, with a pulsating beat blasts away while the original tune is cleverly woven in behind.
This Adele track was one of the most popular with contestants, with entries coming from both RA & PR1ME. The RA remix is almost all instrumental, and adds in some excellent piano bits toward the end of the song. The PR1ME remix keeps the vocals but repeats them through the song interestingly, creating a totally new genre to me, somewhere between house, chillwave, and popstep.
Obviously both of these entries are similar to the previous ones, taking the song in different directions. I won’t repeat myself, just play the damned song already!
BONUS Dime & Dogs Vitamin
These guys misread the original piece and sent me a remix they’d done of Cities In The Dust by Junkie XL. However it seemed a shame to leave it out, because it’s pretty good. So here it is
I hope our competition has enabled you to find some new artists/tracks who you wouldn’t have otherwise heard – it certainly has for me. We will be looking to run similar things in the future so keep your eyes peeled, and your ears open.
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Awesome! Thanks so much guys. If you like what you hear and wanna see more check out soundcloud.com/mattfox. Thanks again! <3
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