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Feb 25

Pet Stems

Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 in Uncategorized

This really is too much fun. I just wish I had a better musical ear. Regardless of my talent, here’s another remix from Stems and Seeds.

Last night when the president was on saying that ‘ we shall overcome ‘,  I was surfing and found this great site with all types of musical rarities. It’s a blog called Never Get Out of the Boat . Among other things I discovered an ‘a cappella’ version of the classic Pet Sounds LP by the Beach Boys. I’m not a big Beach Boys fan ( the only recording I own by them is Smile which was given to me) but this remixing thing had me intrigued.

I took the basic piano and strings from Kylie From Connecticut and spliced up the vocals from I Know There’s An Answer to come up w/ “I Know There’s a Kylie from CT”…  Honestly I never heard the original Beach Boys track before last night and I personally like “Ben’s” backing track to this better than the original.

Download and Enjoy…

Feb 22

One more gift…

Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

Promise, this is the last one of these remixes for a while. Be sure to collect all three!

This one is a reggae dub version of Free Coffee. The backing track is from King Tubby Studio Vs Channel One Studio, a track called Another Extra From The King. I think this is the best of the three in the way  it flows, no awkward breaks or mixes…

Download Another Free Coffee from the King by King Ben Tubby Folds.

Feb 21

More Stems and Seeds

Posted on Saturday, February 21, 2009 in Uncategorized

This time its a mashup instead of a straight remix.  It started out as “What Goes On In Effington” but the Dr Yang vocals were a more natural fit. A simple mix: Take 1969 Velvet Underground Live and Ben singing lead and you get Velvet Ben !

What Goes On , Dr Yang - Velvet Ben

Enjoy!

Feb 20

Live(!) Ben Folds MP3

Posted on Friday, February 20, 2009 in Uncategorized

Just got Ben Folds latest Stems and Seeds and been having fun w/ the isolated tracks that you can bring into GarageBand or its PC equivalence.

Stems and Seeds

Stems and Seeds

Elusively from this web site you can download Bitch Went Nuts (live) remixed by Artrocity.

I was trying to go for a more punky feel and ended up removing most of the pianos (sorry Ben!) ;)
It’s pretty primitive at points but I’m digging it.

Honestly I’m just blown away by the whole packaging. You get the original tracks remixed, the fake release, and all the individual bits and pieces so you can mix it up anyway you would like. I can’t imagine what trouble I would be in now if I had access to this type of technology then.

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