The Free Music Archive is a nexus for Creative Commons music, and their uploads to the Ghost Notes remix event at ccMixter showcases their ability to participate in sharing culture at a pro level. One of the tracks they shared begged for vocals. Yoshimasu Kamiya’s track "She Who Wandered: Infatuation" is a driving instrumental with haunting overtones. I reworked a poem I wrote at Desert Daze music festival to fit, and She's A Ghost came alive.
Special thanks to Lemon Yellow Hayes for the lightening on the track they shared. It's the perfect intro to this Ghost Notes remix. Get down with your demons—it’s good for you.
Fistful of Dub was remixed and released last weekend for the Dig The Dubcatcher Remix event. I am stoked to have had the opportunity to remix such great talent. As part of ccMixter's Dig the Soundtrack call-out for cc pells, samples and remixes, DJ Vadim released source tracks from his new album Dubcatcher2 to the commons for remixing and sharing. Snowflake uploaded a meditative mix called The Gateway and "Fistful of Dub" features the source from both.
The twitter storm created by Kayne West regarding Wiz Kalifa's comments about Waves, the recently changed album title Kayne is about to release, has overshadowed any of the music these two rap giants have created recently. The friction became my muse. I dropped in and mixed this track "Swish to Waves (Kayne vs. Wiz Kalifa Mix feat. Forensic and Cube3)" for those of us who would rather dance than get caught up in the noise of tweets and gossip.
The mix features ccMixter artists Forensic, Cube3 and StellarArtWars, all amazing in their own right and freely uploading source materials to remix. As with any mix, the muse dictates the flow, and the journey to a final track was filled with hours of inspiration. Along the way I got a healthy dose of both Kayne's and Kalifa's work. I hope they use the storm to create their own waves like I did.
"Swish to Waves (Kayne vs. Wiz Kalifa Mix feat. Forensic and Cube3)" is available for download under cc-by-nc license at Free Music Archive, Soundcloud, and CcMixter.org
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Or you can just listen right here! Turn it up and dance in the twitter storm!