ReMix: Lost Patrol 'In The Air Mix'
So, if you crossed Phil Collins, a Roland CR-78, an obscure Amiga game, and a talented Commodore ReMixer, you'd probably end up with something like this. Makke has mixed Lost Patrol's chocolate with Phil's peanut butter and come up with musical reese's pieces, an interesting vocal track that pays homage to the Amiga title and he of Sussudio fame simultaneously. Incidentally, "In the Air Tonight" is considered a bit of a landmark track for some of its more outlandish vocal processing but especially the combination of the VERY synthetic Roland CR-78 drum machine with a much beefier acoustic kit that comes in towards the end and rocks out. Great track; nice to see it assimilated here into a new creation that utilizes some of its structure and instrumentation. From their comments, it wasn't apparent that any of the judges were familiar with the Collins' track this is playing off of, but their opinions were nonetheless positive. Jesse sums up the relative weaknesses and strengths nicely:
"the vocals are campy, the song is on a grand total of 2 (two) chords, the bassline never changes. the production sounds good, the vocals are well recorded, and it doesn't get too repetitive because of a few interludes, some nice synthy sounding strings. very new-wave ballad."
Your familiarity with either half of the source material might prejudice you in one direction or the other, but Makke's certainly come up with something very different, and while that something doesn't work for 100% of the mix, the moments when it's especially effective are pretty cool. You don't have to have a great voice to make a vocal track work, as The Clash helped prove, and while Pavarotti won't have to quit his day job any time soon, the ReMixer does an admirable job of pulling off this innovative, highly conceptual, transporting mix.
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