**Production Notes**
A Disquiet Junto Netlabel Remix for me traditionally is about beats and how to get the material in a nice groove.
This time, I hit brick walls. After extracting some bits from the source material (mainly from „Pepper Jelly“ and „Bump“), I found my usual approach didn’t work. It took ages to puzzle some bits together. No groove wanted to fit. Then the melodic parts didn’t want to go together. So I let the piece rest a day.
The next two day, things worked out better. I used two instances of Serum for bass and a short melodic part; also a free drum loop from Sample Magic, a heavily treated 707 and the Solina String ensemble.
Mastering was done in oZone 5. This challenge really one took some time, about 6-8 hours in total. Am I happy with the results? Too early to tell; I let it rest a bit.
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** Disquiet Junto Project 0233: Netlabel (NND Remix)**
The Assignment: Make one track from three different netlabels, courtesy of a Creative Commons license.
Seeing the “ND” tag on a netlabel release is a major buzzkill. The “ND” tag denotes a Creative Commons license that rules out creating derivative work. Fortunately lots of netlabels do allow for creative reuse, and this occasional series of collaborative remixes seeks to celebrate that activity, and encourage other netlabels to switch off the ND tag. Take “NND” to mean “not no derivatives.”
Step 1: Download the three tracks that will provide source audio for this remix:
Use the first 30 seconds of “HNY” off the album Wormbole by ʞık (Karl & Karlik) on the Bump Foot netlabel:
http://www.bumpfoot.net/bump207.html
Use the first 30 seconds of “Pepper Jelly” off the album Recombinations by Andre Darius and Riley Theodore on the Haze netlabel:
https://hazenetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/recombinations
Use the first 30 seconds of “Autista 3” off the album Autista by Pablo Reche on the Impulsive Habitat netlabel:
http://www.impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihab113.htm
Step 2: Create an original piece of work including that source material.
Step 3: Upload your completed track to the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.
Step 4: Annotate your track with a brief explanation of your approach and process.
Step 5: Then listen to and comment on tracks uploaded by your fellow Disquiet Junto participants.
Deadline: This project was posted in the late morning, California time, on Thursday, June 16, 2016, with a deadline of 11:59pm wherever you are on Monday, June 20, 2016.
Length: Length is up to you, though between two and three minutes seems about right.
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More on this 233rd weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Make one track from three different netlabels, courtesy of a Creative Commons license” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0233/
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