This week's mix, number 19, brings a kaleidoscope of sounds - sewn perfectly together.
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Bio, we've taken the very best bits from Gez's interview 'Credit to the Edit':
Dewar is far from a newcomer – as his Bandcamp bio points out, he’s been “arming the troops with weapons since 1990”. After landing a job at the now defunct entertainment conglomerate Thorn EMI straight out of art college, he moved to MTV Europe for its launch in 1987, got involved in the nascent rave scene and – with his live techno group Doi-Oing – was the first act signed to Ministry of Sound.
“We didn’t really know what we’re doing,” he admits, “and obviously the acts that did go on to do really well, like Underworld and Orbital and people like that, had a much stronger sense of where they were going and what they were doing. We did get an album together in the end, but they weren’t really that interested and let us go after a few years.”
After that, Dewar forged a successful career making music for major TV commercials and games like Gran Turismo and Offroad Fury, while doing his own music on the side. But remixing and editing other people’s music has been a thread all along, beginning with mashing up music videos into megamixes that were shown across Europe in the heyday of MTV.
“I love the idea of taking well-known stuff and twisting it and turning it on its head,” he says. “Really early on, we took Eminem, My Name Is…, and we put it over Fatboy Slim’s Rockefeller Skank: ‘Hi, my name is… the funk-soul brother’.
“That just took off – people at MTV went nuts about it and I gave one to Fatboy Slim who used to play it at the start of his show. I got to hear him play it at the Academy in Brixton and I was like, ‘I can die now. This is brilliant’.”
It was the advent of stem separation technology in the last five to 10 years, where producers can easily lift a capellas, basslines, drum tracks or anything else they like without searching the darkest corners of the internet for the original stems, that brought Gez to where he is now.
“I love the familiar and the new,” he explains. “I suppose it’s a kind of pop art. I think of it a little bit like Warhol, you know, you take these famous things and you reframe them. I just get a huge amount of personal enjoyment out of it.
“Also, it’s a kind of homage, I think, to the people that I grew up listening to, getting some of their tracks and repurposing them. I mean, I’m old, and I don’t realise that a lot of people don’t know this stuff. They’ve never heard it.
“Some of the tracks are 40 years old, and to be able to bring them to the crowd and repurpose them and make them ready for DJs that are current is great.”
Aside from his regular Bandcamp uploads, Gez presents a weekly two-hour radio show called Welcome To The Monkey House, where he showcases his own work and that of his peers, and he was recently tapped to remix Crooked Man for Vicious Charm.
There’s more in store.
Track List:
Siobhan Fahey - Intro
Flash and The pan - Walking in The Rain
Spiritualized - I Think I'm in Love
Mark Barrot - Bush Society
Brian Eno - Always Returning
Presence - Been too Long
B52's - Deep Sleep
Ian O Brien - A Midwestern Night's Dream
7 Hurtz - Malibu
The Open Door - Breathe
Stevie Wonder - Superstition (Ahmed Sirour Remix)
Simian - The Tale Of Willow Hill
23 Skidoo - Meltdown
Turin Breaks - Feeling Oblivion
Future Sound Of London - Max
Roberta Flack-The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Random House Project Retake)
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https://randomhouseproject.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/random-house-projec
