I’ve been following my own advice & finishing a few things I started quite some time ago… I’ve been wanting to get the next DUB45 release finished but for some reason I have let an overdue remix stall my progress! So first watch this video, its kinda cute stop motion but listen to the tune; it’s The Sum of Us by NZ band Minuit
Back in 2003 I quite liked the album The Guards Themselves that this song is from, so I emailed the band via their website & asked if there was any chance of remixing them, and specifically this track… I get an email back, “Sure – we’ll post you a DVD of the stems” which they do, I start messing with it, head in two totally different directions and eventually stall. Which one should I finish to send to them… The eventual answer: neither! For whatever reasons I just could not finish them and be happy with them… The band released an EP of 6 remixes (which is available at bandcamp here) and so I forget about it. But it keeps bugging me: unfinished! it’s unfinished! And irrespective of the EP release these versions could have been something, instead of nothing! I still like the original song but there wasn’t a remix on that EP I particularly liked… So my two versions remain as ableton LIVE sessions on my music drive, and every few months I boot them up & have a listen… & I inevitably do a few tweaks… but I still don’t finish either one of them…
Seven years later (SEVEN YEARS LATER!) I decide I MUST finish them – if only to be free of them. Be objective and do a final pass on them, mix them, output them, upload them to soundcloud, send the band the links, post them here and…. thats it! MOVE ON! So here is first the quiet version….. and then the noisy loud version!
The Sum of Us – a quiet remix v1.01 by timprebble
The Sum of Us – a loud remix v2.01 by timprebble
Better seven years late than never? Better never late! and better than nothing…
