Re: Where do you go?

From Brian Behlendorf
Sent Fri, Sep 26th 2014, 23:18

On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Clint Anderson wrote:
> Sham has a good point in that when you go from artist A, to his mate who did 
> a remix, artist B, to his neighbor who he did a split with, artist C, yes, 
> you're probably going to find
> three artists you like, HOWEVER, you're going to find three artists who 
> probably share a lot of equipment, techniques, and style, not because they 
> are bad or uncreative, but just
> because of convenience, circumstance, and personalities.
> You do have to make that leap at some point...

The best remixes, like the best covers, are those from folks with wildly 
different equipment, techniques, and styles.  Best recent example for me is 
An-ten-nae's remix of Daughter's cover of Daft Punk's Get Lucky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th9q_1vzBRE

Brian