I got a message from Lady Sovereign's tour DJ, Annalyze for an interesting opportunity. Sov's management was looking for a remix for Her new album "Jigsaw" which has just come out recently on her own imprint "Midget Records". The track is called "Pennies". The original, is like a hip-hop / electronic-ish kinda hybrid track. It is aggressive and has a filtered drum'n'bass kinda hoover sounding bassline. So given my drum'n'bass background some of you are familiar with, it instantly appealed to me.
What made this remix opportunity interesting, was that they wanted a "hip-hop" remix. I have a huge passion for hip-hop that ranges back to just about a far as I can remember. I've always messed around with hip-hop production, but never really had an outlet to push it. So needless to say, I said yes! I don't really expect to do much production like this on a regular basis under the Kill The Noise name, well, cause KTN is a more uptempo house/electro project! I actually struggled for a bit to figure out whether or not releasing this under KTN made any sense. Eventually I decided that, because it is the most active project I have at the moment, it would probably have the most reach being pushed thru this avenue. I figured it would be a fun quirky little easter egg for those that are paying attention.
I actually played quite a bit of guitar on the track as well, and used Guitar rig 3 for a lot of the processing. So we got one part british female MC, one part 808 dirty south drum programming, and one part heavy guitar processing. Sounds like a mess, but I spent a few days making it work. The results are something like a mix between, hmm, well I dunno I guess I'll let you be the judge!
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