How to Make a Best-Blogging Remix

Nine of the top 15 most-popular songs on Hype Machine right now are disco remixes. There is nothing wrong with disco remixes, except everything.

You are confused. Who cares if someone makes a bad remix?

I cannot answer this question.

I will, however, detail this enemy to artistic effort and nuance with the most effortful and nuanced of blog posts: A how-to!

How to Make a Remix and Maximize Your Pan-Flashing and Feedback-Looping Quotients:

1. Choose a song that hasn’t been remixed yet that is either: a) topping the Billboard charts, or b) the Hype Machine charts.
2. Steal Reason and some samples.
3. Slap together a few loops.
4. Make Important Decisions:

Will the synth hits be on the beat or off?

Will the song have a rising echo that overtakes the verse to get to the chorus?  If so, how many times?

Will the sampled song end after the hi-hats and bass end or before? Maybe we should end with that Jens Lekman finger cymbal. No one’s done that yet.

Now blast it off to as many hype machine blogs as your email program can handle, and you, too, can resound across the blogodrome!

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1. Anatomy Of A Remix – Sleep Station: Flight 1
2. Anatomy of a Remix – Sleep Station: The Promise You Made v2
3. Clicking The Hype Machine For You – Three Blog Years Ago
4. Anatomy of a Remix – Sleep Station: Fallen
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