What More Can I Say?

New Jay-Z remix. My backing mix under his acappella vocal track for "What More Can I Say". I sliced his vocals up slightly to try to better fit the beat. This one was kind of challenging because the chorus vocals were part of the vocal track so I couldn't separate them out from Jay's vocals. Oh well, you work with what you got.

What More Can I Say? (Jay-Z remixed) - MC Jack in the Box

more jay-Z remixes over here!

Nine Inch Nails Remixed

Trent Reznor and crew prove once again how truly cool and innovative they are by releasing various source tracks from their brand new CD "Year Zero". Check out the cool new remixes over on Remixfight, where a bunch of like minded folks are having a little virtual listening party of new remixes for this excellent new tune. Check them out and pick your favorite.

Off break. Sort of.

I created a new tune/mix for the upcoming Songfight. Challenged to do something with a "strong, dancable rhythm", my MC Jack persona took over on this one. Sugar Shaker features a short clip from KCentric, from the ccmixter community. The rest of the backing mix and vocals are a combination of loops and live tracks by me.

I've also got another new mix over on Remixfight. Kind of a last minute thing I wanted to do as my buddy Ken is the drummer. You can hear it here.

Finally, I just want to mention that next up on Remixfight will be one of the new Nine Inch Nails songs, "Me I'm Not", which they've just released the source tracks for with no licensing restrictions. Since this is Nine Inch Nails, I'm sure the source for this will be outstanding so go download the source for this here and submit a remix.

On Break

I've been on kind of an extended hiatus from remixing lately, partly from a lack of inspiration, partly because i've just been pretty busy with life in general, and partly because i've been trying to concentrate a little more on songwriting and live recording. I haven't abandoned it, just taking a well earned rest in the hopes that i can come back juiced with some new ideas about stuff.

I did manage to squeeze in a remix on the current Remixfight though. "Music Ruined Video Games" is a remix of an original song by Shael Riley.

Four Nada Video

New video by Etoli featuring my remix "Four Nada", featuring Silvia O on vocals and fourstones on bass. Thanks to teru for pointing it out.

Somebody Told Me

I remixed the vocal track for The Killers "Somebody Told Me". You can check it out here.

Happy New Year

Here's a few new remixes to start the new year off right.

First up, A Long Way From Home (Ran's Mix) features a combination of acappella tracks by ran dumb dots and innabar doing the same piece, the classic "motherless child". all backing music by me.

I also took parts of Ms. Vybe's "Insecurities" and threw it together with the amazing guitar work of Tapsa and put together "What's Your Insecurity"

finally, over on the latest Remixfight!, you can find my remix by Boogat. go check them all out and vote for your favorite.

A Plea For Sanity

The Voice of the People Must Be Heard

Vote for change tomorrow.

The Latest Stuff

I've been doing a fair amount of remixing lately, though I may take a break soon and try to concentrate on a couple of original music projects. Lots of variety lately too.

From ccmixter, I threw a mash up together of J. Lang with G'Wills and Nails being backed up by Chuck D. and the Fine Arts Militia. Check out Chuck Lang. Warning......"NSFW" :)

Coming up on remixfight, I threw together an Indian-themed dancey remix of Ajai's fine track called "Diljuba". You can here my remix here.

Making Love features the fine vocal stylings of Snowflake. The rest is mine.

Nothing Compares features Distorted Mastermind's unique flow with my backing mix.

Nights in Tokyo are Shallow features the spoken word of yamamiya with vocal drones by ztutz.

Bring the Music Back sees 4ensic square off against Clarance "dramatic pause" Boddyker.

enjoy.

A Very Subtle Remix

Subtle6 is an Oakland based hip-hop group that sounds alot like OutKast and they put up one of their vocal tracks and is putting on a remix contest. I threw something together for this. Hot track!

Subtle6 - The Mercury Craze (MC Jack in the Box remix)

A Couple by Lisa and I

I did a couple remixes recently featuring the really nice vocal work of Lisa DeBenedictis, a Magnatune artist who contributed a couple of her tracks to ccmixter. I really enjoyed working with her vocals on these 2 remixes.

"The Same But Different" is my take on her track "Brilliant".

"Supergirl" is my take on her track "Girl and Supergirl".

Both tracks available from her CD, available on Magnatune.

More LonelyGirl15

I guess LonelyGirl15 must like my remixes, as she (they?) used another one for her latest video. Here, her fake boyfriend "Daniel" discusses Aleister Crowley while my remix of Brad Sucks "Work Out Fine" plays intermittently in the background. This one was posted yesterday.



I mean, I'm not complaining about the publicity (the last video she used my remix in had over a quarter of a million hits), or the Creative Artists Agency connection (feel free to contact me about future work...), so feel free to keep using my mixes there "Bree", but man, I just don't get it. I must be too old for this shit.

More Tube

Another one of my remixes found it's way onto YouTube recently. Rohan Harris, an independent filmaker from Australia (i think), recently used my remix of Brad Sucks "Borderline" for the trailer for his new short. Apparently, he also used my remix of Spinning Merkaba (Mammoth) for the closing credits of the film. he posted the trailer on YouTube. See below.

LonelyGirl15 and I

A recent article in USA Today, as well as the LA Times, confirms the recent phenomenon known as LonelyGirl15, a YouTube blogger that seems to have captured the fancy of a voyeuristic world. LonelyGirl15 puts together these shamelessly stupid videos, but she's so damn cute and endearing, with her big doe eyes, that you just think "oh, how cute..." instead of "oh, how stupid....".

Anyways, i'm sure you're wondering why i'm talking about this. It's because LonelyGirl15 somehow stumbled across my music and is using my remix of Grant Schindler's "Remained" in one of her dumb videos. I think they might have stumbled on it from ccmixter, as I think there are a couple other ccmixter mixes she uses in her videos. She's also apparently the number one downloaded video host on YouTube.

One of the articles mentions a possible CAA connection, so if anyone from CAA wants to contact me about future work opportunities, my email link is there on the right.

So here you go.....

Lonely Girl15 (and my remix) in Daniel the Neanderthal

New Score

My remix of Silvia O.'s "Nada Nada" is featured in a short japanese movie that won some sort of award. i think. Silvia emailed me the links.

Here's a link to the writeup with our credit at least somehwat discernable in english.


you can check out the movie itself here. personally i think it's lost in translation on me.

Hot as Piss

the weather that is. I guess I could say the same about these remixes and mashups but that would be blowing my own horn so i'll leave it to for you, my faithful crew, to decide.

Ophelia features Marinella Mastrosimone's vocal track over my backing mix.

Double K features Ms. Vybe trading flow with Annie2K with a backing mix by prof. m.Stereo.

Not About Me is my first remix of nerdcore rapper Distorted Mastermind.

Bad Vibes features Ms. Vybe battling with Distorted Mastermind.

Eine Kleine Nacht Muzick features KCentric's fine vocal work over sunbyrn's fine backing mix.

Rock With Me features some amazing guitar and organ work by Tapsa layered in with an excellent track by patient X, with a nice little oboe track by Puie.

Four for the 4th

Here are some recent remixes I've done. Enjoy. Happy 4th of July.

I Consume features Nathaniel Stern doing some spoken word over my backing mix.

Independence Day features Colin Mutchler's vocal track over eric heller's backing mix. a pretty basic mashup.

Framed features Clarance Boddyker rappin over an excellent backing mix by fourstones. another straight mashup.

Desaprendere features the fine vocal work of SilviaO and the backing mix is courtesy of maly Wu.

2 new remixes today

I did 2 new remixes today that I think turned out pretty good. The first one was the latest Remixfight!, which I was originally going to sit out not because I didn't like the source material, but more a lack of time and energy. I threw something together in a couple hours this morning while I had my coffee. Some people like their sunday paper, I like my sunday morning remix. :)

Check out my take on Father Bingo's "Dry Lots and Red Ones", and check out the other fine remixes over on remixfight.

Dry Lots and Red Ones - Father Bingo remixed

I also threw together a remix of Spinning Merkaba's song "Elephant". I used mostly his original source tracks, with me doing the beats.

Mammoth - Spinning Merkaba remixed

enjoy.

Mashter of Ceremonies

So the MC is kind of a misnomer in my moniker as I really don't rap, just more or less remix and produce under this name. But I do mash, so I guess calling myself a mashter of ceremonies isn't too far off. Speaking of mash, I've got a whole bunch of new mashups posted on ccmixter. I've been doing alot of remixing lately, I guess just inspired by alot of the source I've been working with. Lots of different styles and genres keeps things interesting. So with that said, here we go......

Fly features vocals by Spinning Merkaba. He also provided the acoustic and clean electric guitar on this. I did the rest of the music. This one rocks hard.

Nada is a remix of "NadaNada" by SilviaO, a pop singer from Columbia. Vocals by SilviaO and music by me. Very well received on ccmixter.

Remained is a pretty straight forward remix of "Remain", a song by Grant Schindler. Only his original source tracks were used in this remix, which i really like.

Sex and Payola features a whole bunch ccmixter artists including ran dumb dots, dreamfilter, V.E.R.A., and nimmo.

Diplomacy features Clarance Boddyker rapping over some Pat Chilla the Beat Gorilla, with some added strings by rjmarshall.

give them a listen and share if you like.

Naked Remixes

My original song "Naked on the Meach" is being featured over on remixfight right now, with a bunch of cool versions posted. Check them out, they are awesome.

Speaking of awesome, the awesome teru also took some of my naked source material and threw together a nice little mashup of me and Brad Sucks. Very cool.

And speaking of mashups, I threw together a big old mashup featuring ccmixter artists alundryn, hepepe, ztutz, and teru. Deeply Mashed features only the original source tracks, so i added nothing in terms of new material, just re-arranged and remixed the original tracks. Enjoy.