Holiday parties are always a source of strange inspiration when it comes to bootlegs.
Last Christmas, I was hanging out with
William A in the studio, listening to
Wolfgang Gartner's "Space Junk". When the first breakdown hit, William said "You know what acapella would sound amazing over this? 'Shiny Disco Balls' by Who Da Funk"
Fortunately, I had the acapella catalogued and handy. (Oh, the joys of OCD.)
I needed more cool bootlegs for my 2010 New Years Eve set with Gabriel & Dresden at Hollywood Palladium, so I threw "Space Junk" and "Shiny Disco Balls" into Ableton Live and KABOOM! It worked flawlessly.
The next night, I spent an hour or so getting the vocals arranged and mixed. Probably the fastest bootleg I've ever done, actually.
For a while I called it "Shiny Disco Junk", until another dear friend - Austin videographer,
Seabrook Jones (who incidentally shot the
Winter Kills "My Friend" video, but I digress...) - blurted out, "That's DUMB. Call it 'SpaceBalls'!"
Ah, teamwork. (Download link after the jump.)
One of my first tracks on Different Pieces/Armada was a deep techno groover called "Less Cowbell". Earlier this year, I fluffed it by mating it with the drums from Mark Knight's dub of Faithless' "Music Matters".
Holiday parties are always a source of strange inspiration when it comes to bootlegs.
For my New Year's Eve gig with Gabriel & Dresden at the Hollywood Palladium, I re-booted a bunch of my older remixes to get the crowd going.
One of my star pupils and Armada artist, William A, had a bunch of great releases last year: "Tall Glass", "Shot Glass", "Umbrella", along with quite a few well-received remixes.