BUG 'UTCH #8: "I Don't Want To Be In Love: Claas Reimer D&B RMX"

Listen: I Don't Want To Be In Love: Claas Reimer D&B RMX
or here: http://soundcloud.com/claas-reimer

Back in 2001, I released a trance-y pop single in collaboration with Synthetica aka Bernie Tavis aka Skyko: I Don't Want To Be In Love. Now, it's 2012, and on The Bug 'Utch cd, I've been collaborating with Claas Reimer (see earlier in this blog) and I'm very happy to be involved, once again, with someone who is respected in the dance world. (Please check out Claas's profile Claas Reimer)

A few months ago, MisterCee/The Dark Beat Meister became aware of  I Don't Want To Be In Love: Radio Edit and asked me for the stems to do a remix. Unfortunately, the original multi track recording is long since "digitally dead & buried," so, I set about re recording my vocals for his use, and what else he needed he lifted from the original mix down track. (Though it sounds like very little was used.) Anyway, I am very happy with Claas's Drum n Bass RMX, so much so, that I am featuring it as a bonus track on the Bug 'Utch cd. Instead of the 'song' format which is featured on the cd, here is a track that is more Claas in his element.

Thanks, Claas. Nice One, deude! :)

BUG 'UTCH #2: I'M JUST FLOATING

Listen to FLOATING with Claas Reimer & Rainer Struck

So ... I'm still in the "Bug 'Utch" with track ideas (beats & sound samples) from The Dark Beat Meister. Do what you will with these, Artie, says MisterCee. 

Well, I've already written of CHAIN & CLOSER, now there's one other track that gets me going: a deep techhouse mix called JAZZ. Hmmm ... so, I lift piano samples & ambient noises and put them together with a chord change I've used before, and somehow a completely different melody, bpm and feel of lyric is developing from this new atmosphere. I wrote a song called BELIEF, a while ago, and this new track could quite easily be called BELIEF II. (Lyrically speaking, that is.)

A few months back, I heard a piece of music accompanying a video that I just loved by Rainer Struck called TWILIGHT, and realized what I needed to cohese all the piano samples was Mr. Struck's delicate flowing touch. Sure enough, Mr. Twilight came through with a solo that whenever I listen, makes me feel like I'm floating. Bravo, Rainer! I also dropped in selected parts towards the end.

I started collaborating with musicians about four years ago from all over the world through a now defunct web site, mi7. It was an amazing awakening for me. The ability to create with folk living half a world away was completely unheard of a few years earlier. I am still in awe of this opportunity, and when a song comes together like this, I remain gobsmacked! Thank you, boys. 

Yours in Gratitude, RTQ.

Ah, Gratitude: As near to spirituality as I get. :)

BUG 'UTCH #1: CLOSER & CHAIN with CLAAS REIMER

Check out the tracks

 CLOSER    &   CHAIN

        

 

So there I am in the Bug 'Utch (my father's pet name for my recording space), when over the wires comes some track ideas with beat & sound samples from TheCeeMan (CLAAS REIMER, The Dark Beat Meister who resides here: http://soundcloud.com/claas-reimer ). Do what you will with these, Artie, says MisterCee

Hmm, thinks I, his "Gimmethebeat & Slower" are two tracks that tickle my creative gland. So here are the first two incarnations of those tracks. No doubt, TheCeeMan will produce his own inimitable takes on my takes of his tracks. (As I shall probably be inspired by some of his re-mixes and remix my mixes-Hah! Lookie Me—A friggin' DJ, now.)  I look forward to them, MisterCee. Nice!

Now, I don't know about about other songwriters, but I write about things in my life, life, if you will, very much from my perspective. (What is it you covet, Clerisse ...? You covet what you see—Right on, Hannibal.) Many things can change (and frequently do on my creative journey) in the organic development of a song (melody/chord structures/bass lines/beats), but usually the lyrical idea, if it is strong enough, will not.

So, what to write TheCeeMan's Slower about? ... hmm ... I look around the studio ... From time to time "friends from the arachnid origin" hang out way up in the 4 corners of the room. I don't really know why, as I keep a clean ship and there are rarely any tasty morsels passing through. So why are they hanging with The Q ...? Digging the sounds? Tired of the wild & wool-y outside? Who knows? ... Or, more nefarious reasons, perhaps??? Often they're there for quite some time and don't appear to have moved. A closer inspection reveals they're either dead or have shed their skin.

However this one is quite alive ... possibly he has taken a fancy to "something a lil larger" as it appears  to have gotten ... Closer ...? ... and if conquests are made here, maybe IT is looking to move into The Big House. YIKES! ;)

And Claas's GimmeTheBeat ...? It manifested itself in Chain, though I have to say that there is no depth or meaning on my part behind this rock n roll cliched jumble o' words other than I merely threw together a collection of lyrical images that appealed at the time. So, without further Ta-Da's, check out the sounds.

CLOSER         CHAIN

Nb. The tracks above are the first draft mixes, so they could possibly ahem, "evolve" some more by the time of the cd pressing.

I'm down on my hands and knees, I'm begging you,  yes please ... I'm waiting for the
CHAIN OF LOVE to arrive

All tracks ©2011 primal mood music