musicjunkie's "Monkey in the City" Remix
of Shock The Monkey by Peter Gabriel
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Uploaded 06 Sep 2006 17:12:46
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Remixer Notes
Monkey gets hurt and runs to the city.
For my first attempt at remixing this tune, I wanted to give it a more urban/industrial and a darker feel. Other than the original vocal tracks and a couple of beeps & percussion tracks, I pretty much created all new accompaniment, including a few violin tracks (with tons of flanger on them), a 3" galvanized steel water pipe, street noise near my studio, and planes flying over my head.
Technical Information
ProTools LE
Screenblast ACID 4.0
Triton Pro workstation for the Bass and synth parts
Ableton Live drum samples
Comments
nifty chords - interesting sonic journey, almost visual in nature. Really nice work! 
Cool urban groove, your departure from it at 1.46 was a bit sudden and had me fowarding till you came back to it. You could have gone all the way here dropped PG, occasionally and got a rhyme in. Not many here have mastered, setting PG against a def jam type mix but this is one of the better ones
Thanks for your comments. I guess what I was trying to create or depict between 1:46 and 2:44 is the craziness of the city, chaos and all the BS, and the Monkey's state of mind! He's going . um . bananas at that point!
This mix is very different, and I like it. What you needed was a recording of a weird vocal thing pg did on the 86-87 tour in the middle of the song, sort of a growl, if you had a recording of it it would've fit perfectly in this mix. Only thing I didn't like was the very end. Nice work. Thanks.
I like this one a lot. great job alex!
like your remixes too, thanks. this one`s to my favorites. much luck!
Musicjunkie- I've only noticed it from a few other remixers here - you're very diverse! Each of your remixes are so different from each other, and you find fantastic opera singers, violins, sound effects, etc. Ah, and there's "Peter the Mouse" again at 2:20ish. *laughs* I love all the noise you sampled and stuck in the middle section. The changeup at the end didn't feel as dark to me, but overall this is an interesting remix. Congratulations on placing/getting mention with your lovely gypsy remix.
-Scaroborough
Thanks Scarborough. You seem to be very good at picking up different sounds and effects. But one thing I'm not sure if you spotted - the sirens at 2:27 were actually done on the violin - my studio is near a fire station and normally there's no shortage of fire trucks passing by, you would think it wouldn't be hard to get siren noises, but the night I was recording/mixing - not a fire truck in sight the whole night, so I picked up my violin!
I DID hear that, believe it or not. I thought, "Those are violins!" and then second guessed myself and thought, "no, he didn't-". Ha! I like to meow at my cats with my violin. They usually ignore me. I live near train tracks. That would make some interesting percussive noise in a remix like this one too.
Wow . hats off to you!!
Question: Do you use a pickup to record your violin or a microphone? Also, I'm wondering if I could send you a score to peek at and chat up something violin related via email.
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Definately has a sad air about it. I totally get the busy urban feeling towards the middle. This mix definately tells a story. Well thought out, good job.
Comment added by Patrick Sean Oneil on 2006-09-10 06:05:47