50 Cent - In da club [Merengue to Reggaeton version]

[image taken from wikipedia]

Single by 50 Cent from the album Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Released     January 7, 2003
Recorded     2002
Genre          Hip hop
Length         3:14
Label           Aftermath, Interscope, Shady
Writer(s)     50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Mike Elizondo
Producer     Dr. Dre, Mike Elizondo


In spite of having heard several versions of this song throughout the 2000s decade, I decided to create my own. This one was made in mid march 2011, a special remix in pambiche style of merengue @ 180 bpm, finishing playing @ 90 bpm in reggaeton style, using Adobe Audition 1.5.

You can hear the remix here:

Since this is an original recording by an US artist, no d/l will be available, in order to avoid copyright complaints by anyone related to RIAA. Sorry :(

Michael Jackson - Beat it [revamped electronica mashup]

image taken from http://philippechristian.free.fr

Released	February 14, 1983
Recorded	1982
Genre	Rock
Length	4:17
Label	Epic
Writer(s)	Michael Jackson
Producer	Quincy Jones Michael Jackson (co-producer)
Certification	Platinum (RIAA) Gold (RIANZ)

and here's the remix...

Software used: Adobe Audition 1.5
Date: June 2011
Tempo: 123 bpm

Since this is an original recording by an US artist, no d/l will be available, in order to avoid copyright complaints by anyone related to RIAA. Sorry :(

Slow or fast? Please lend us your ears!

I liked this article which was originally published on Last.fm by Mark Levy on Thursday, 12 May 2011. I found it useful for fellow deejays and music enthusiasts, so here's the article:

We need your help. For several years scientists have been trying to extract meaningful information about music directly from the audio data in a track. Encouraged by successes in automatic speech recognition, for a while researchers hoped that it would be fairly easy for a computer to analyze an audio track and transcribe it directly to sheet music notation, recognising instruments, voices, and all the notes they were playing.
This was quickly found to be a much harder problem than expected, and a new field of research grew out of the failure to conquer this challenge.

Since then scientists have battled to recognise specific aspects of a song, such as its tempo, key, harmony, rhythm, instrumentation, or even just its genre, by analyzing its audio content. Starting in 2004, this battle has been formalised into an annual competition called MIREX.
In each round of MIREX, competitors submit their programs to a carefully controlled competition server, where each program is run on the same set of tracks. The winner is the one whose results agree most closely with a matching set of human judgements.
But gathering human opinions about very specific aspects of large numbers of songs isn’t easy. You need to find people with a keen interest in music, and ideally some musical expertise. You need to persuade them to answer questions that can seem obvious to them (even though they are still difficult for a computer). Finally you need to have enough helpers to allow for the fact that some interesting musical questions can have more than one ‘right’ answer.
We’ve been thinking about this problem recently, while evaluating some rival algorithms to estimate the tempo, or beats per minute, of songs directly from audio… and we thought of you! We know from many years’ experience that Last.fm users have the interest, the knowledge, and the sheer staying-power to make a huge contribution to scientific research in this field. As an extra incentive, improving these methods could help us offer you even better radio and recommendations in the long run.

To test this idea in practice, we’ve built a very simple application on our labs website where you can listen to music and help us improve the state of the art in tempo estimation. If you have fun with this, we plan to add to it over the coming weeks and months.
So please lend us your ears for a few minutes. Thank you!

Crystal Waters - Gypsy woman [She's homeless]

 

 

 Released   1991

Recorded	1990
Genre	Deep house
Length	3:42
Label	Mercury/PolyGram Records
Writers	Neal Conway Crystal Waters
Producer	The Basement Boys

and the new version is here....

 

Software used: Adobe Audition 1.5
DoR: September 2011
Length: 3.28
Remixed by me.

Since this is an original recording by an US artist, no d/l will be available, in order to avoid copyright complaints by anyone related to RIAA.

Sorry :(

Buju Banton - Champion [remix]

I used to enjoy this song in its original version after work, and a couple of years after finding its acapella, I was able to do something worth with it. Please enjoy it.


Performer: Buju Banton 
Author: (Myrie/Sibbles) 
Software used: Adobe Audition 1.5 
DoR: February 2011

If you like it, please comment!

Merengue House mixtape

Unos días antes de la lluvia de ceniza volcánica y del tristemente célebre Agatha respectivamente; tuve la ideota de hacer un mixtape de merengue house, el género que mezclaba merengue con house junto con un rapeo, el cual fue famoso a mitad de la decada de los 90s; con intérpretes tales como Proyecto Uno, Sandy & Papo MC, Ilegales, Artie the One Man Show, por mencionar algunos, sin dejar de lado a El General, quien tuvo un masivo exito con el tema grabado junto a C&C Music Factory….
Saludos cordiales a todos los lectores, y en especial a Oscar Prada,  Oscar Sánchez y a Reggaeton365.

Fecha: Mayo 2010
Software usado: Adobe Audition 1.5
Duración: 73:57
Recupera tu oído

   1. C&C Music Factory ft General - Tres latinos
   2. V.A. - Dame un pase
   3. El Boricua - El norepa
   4. Fulanito - Cha cha # 7 [Edit]
   5. Légó - El ritmo de verdad
   6.   - Que bonita bandera
   7. Proyecto UNO - Brrinca brrinca [remix]
   8. Jean Claude Ades &Vincent Thomas - Shing-a-ling
   9. Proyecto UNO - Merengue con letra [remix]
  10. Sancocho - Tearing down the house
  11.   - Latinos presentes
  12. Presidente - Mira lo q se te sale mami
  13. Ralphie Rosario - Brinca para arriba
  14. Sonora Santanera - La boa [D2 PDDJS remix][edit]
  15. Proyecto UNO - Esta pegao'
  16. Bad Boy Orchestra ft Hermanos Rosario - Bomba [97 remix]
  17. Presidente - La rumba del Presidente
  18. Latino Power ft Antonio Machin - Dos gardenias
  19. Kinito Mendez - Cachamba [Norty boy dub remix]
  20. Mundo Max - Me gustan todas
  21. 2 in a Room - El trago
  22. Ilegales - Ten valor
  23. Presidente - Dame un cafe con leche mami [DJ Marco's Latin House Mix]
  24. Wilfrido Vargas - El africano [Rick García Latin Club Mix]
  25. Sandy & Papo MC - Yo quiero bailar [edit]
  26. Boriqua Brothas - Echa pa'lante, echa pa'tras
  27. Reel2Real ft Proyecto UNO - Move your body [edit]
  28. Sandy & Papo MC - Hora de bailar [Esa nena linda dub remix]
  29. Artie the One Man Party - Esa nena linda
  30. Alex Bueno - Agua dulce, agua sala'
  31. Zafra Negra - Sufriendo por ella [Machete mix]
  32. Nico Canada - In tha house
  33. Nico Canada - In tha house [part II]


Si te gusta, coméntaaaa

90's eurodance mix parte 1

Hice este mixtape recordando los años de mi preadolescencia, los 90s, cuando en esos años FM 95 [Ciudad de Guatemala] era lo mejorcito en música de moda; en cambio ahora, bueno, desde hace algunos años es una vil copia de MTV.

Esos eran los años en que de veras era difícil conseguir música, los sencillos, las versiones doce, los remixes, los megamixes, no existía nada llamado “Internet” [o estaba en etapa embrionaria], los cassettes grabados abundaban, los CDs grabados eran cosa del futuro, [y llegarían a tener un precio de hasta Q250, unos $41 de la época] en fin…

Si les gusta, comenten y recuperen su oído. ;)

Software usado: Adobe Audition 1.5
Fecha: Enero 2011
Duración: 36:22
Velocidad: 150 bpm

1. El Comandante y Mario Silva - La diana 
2. Rednex - Cotton eyed Joe 
3. Double Vision - Knockin' 
4. Double Vision - All right
5. MoDo - Eins zwei polizei 
6. 2 Unlimited - Jump for joy
7. La Bouche - Be my lover [Hi NRG mix]
8. Dr Alban ft Swing - Sweet dreams 
9. Culture Beat - Crying in the rain
10. Maxx - No more
11. Robert Miles ft Corona - Children of the rhythm [latigo's mashup]
12. DJ Dado - X Files [Techno remix]
13. L.A. Style - James Brown is dead [Rap mix]
14. 2 Unlimited - No limits [Extended Rap Version]
15. Culture Beat - Mr Vain

Saludos y agradecimiento al amigo Dj Fab (Megève), y al amigo DJ Callejas. Blessings!

David Guetta ft Akon - Sexy bitch [reggaeton remix]

Picture taken from dropthevibe.com

Even though I'm no fan of modern/nowadays music, I did like this song, and when I got the acapella, I was like I gotta make a remix, did my job and you can hear the results. Hope you enjoy it :)

Software used: Adobe Audition 3.0
Date of Remix: April 2011
Source: Acapella    
If you like it, please comment!

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Snow - Girl I've been hurt [reggae mix]

And here's the oft-forgotten Snow. I used to watch this video on "Canal 25" [Guatemala] back in the day. I'm sure some of y'all did too. Anyway, enjoy the video and the remix made by me.

Software used: Adobe Audition 1.5
DoR: September 2011
Source: Acapella + a little filter



Enjoy!

Reggae Clásico Verano 2011

Ya tenía más de dos años de no hacer un mix de reggae antiguo cuando me animé hacer este, e irónicamente, temas no me faltaron ^^ y quisiera dar gracias y enviar saludos a los amigos DropDead, Silver Star Sounds, DJ Teo, al desaparecido Takaya, a Mastersound, José Moustro, Fragga Man, Ivan IO, además de los lectores.



Fecha: Abril 2011
Software: Adobe Audition 3.0
Duración: 37.34

1. Renato - El más sensual [12' mix] 
2. Pocho Pan - Pantalón Caliente 
3. Lorna Gee - Nice 
4. Krystal - Twice my age 
5. Big Boy - ¿Dónde están? 
6. Snow - Girl I've been hurt 
7. Coco Man - El marciano 
8. Shaba Kahn - Ella me rompió el corazón 
9. Dirtsman - Hot this year [edit] 
10. Nando Boom - Ellos benia 
11. Blacka Ranks - No secret fi yuh [DropDead mix] 
12. Nando Boom - Mariflor
13. Nando Boom - El desorden [latigo remix] 
14. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean [Ra pa pie mix] 
15. Shabba Ranks - Trailor Load A Girls [CDM Radio]
16. Cutty Ranks - Limb by limb [Supercat Version] 
17. Gringo Man - Pasaporte para mi cañón [remix] 
18. General - Te ves buena [edit] 
19. Shabba Ranks - Gyal yuh good
20. General - Tu pun pun [dub] 
21. Renato - Lo que quiero para mí 

Si te gusta, comenta ;)