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The Mixtape Club

Schon mal zur Einstimmung. The Mixtape Club. Zehn Leute, zehn Tracks, zehn Albumcover mit einem Ziel: move to the groove. Läuft alles schön fluffig durch.

»A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and… oh, there are loads of rules.«

Wir sollten auch einen gründen. Wirkt so graziös.

A Summer in 3/4 Time

Jens Lekman über seine Arbeit an einem Remix zu Au Revoir Simone’s »Shadows« und wie daraus ein formidabler Sommermix wurde…

I got the opportunity to remix my favourite song from Au Revoir Simone’s beautiful album Still Night, Still Light. While listening to the song I realised how nice it’d be to transform their straight 4/4 time synthpop into a whirlwind waltz or maybe a barcarole if you will. It took a long time to chop up all the syllables and the tiny tiny samples, but I think the result got the song into a whole swirling new direction.

While making the remix, my mind started working in 3/4 and 6/8 time. I started looking around for tracks in that time signature to make a mix, I wasn’t intending to but I couldn’t help it. It was all a big swirl. After a while I heard it everywhere. In soul ballads, in polyrhythmical african pop, in old movies. In the ocean waves tumbling in against the shore, in the beat of a lovers heart. One two three, one two three…