How the heck do I remix?

[DubMikey]

Hey all.
I've been asking myself this question a lot, and YES I HAVE been using the DSF search-thingy and YES I have been using google aswell, but still I haven't found a clear answer on how to remix a song. Most threads and whatnot I've found, was about how to remix a song with acapella in it, but lets say, for instance, that I want to remix a song like Excision & DatsiK - Boom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3PAaTeRxYk) with no acapella in it. How should I start off to remix this?

By the way, I can't be bothered to deal with trolls and whatnot!

Thanks in advance!

[press]

ask the artist for stems. or bootleg it and chop it up into peices and rearrange. or replay the parts with your own sounds like a cover.

[DubMikey]

ask the artist for stems. or bootleg it and chop it up into peices and rearrange. or replay the parts with your own sounds like a cover.

Thank you for your answer! Hrmm, getting the stems from the artists seems a little "unreal". But I have a question; What is a bootleg exactly?

[press]

bootleg remix is an unauthorized remix where you do not have permission from the label and or artist who ownd the rights to the recordings.

[DubMikey]

bootleg remix is an unauthorized remix where you do not have permission from the label and or artist who ownd the rights to the recordings.

Okay, thank you!
How should I chop it up and rearrange it then? (I'm using FL Studio 9, if that matters)

[press]

how you do it is all you buddy! just gotta get in there slice it up and move it around.

personally id never bootleg a tune in the same genre though.

[hideouz]

Chop it up in anyway which you want it to sound in your remix.. if you want to change the drums chop up bits without drums and add your own drums etc rearrange samples there's loads of ways you can about it best way to learn is to practise and see what works and what doesnt.

[DubMikey]

I guess you guys are right, thanks for the answers!

[Foreplay]

ask the artist for stems. or bootleg it and chop it up into peices and rearrange. or replay the parts with your own sounds like a cover.

Thank you for your answer! Hrmm, getting the stems from the artists seems a little "unreal". But I have a question; What is a bootleg exactly?

What's so unreal about asking them?

[-[2]DAY_-]

cuz they're gonna say no, unless you have rep and are a good remixer.


try doing an edit (which is what you're doing if you're chopping, etc. --- unless you're mixing elements from the track, you're not remixing)
do an edit that brings it into a different genre, like ragga, grime, something else. It's pretty dumb to take a dubstep track and copy paste it into a dubstep track =/

[press]

It's pretty dumb to take a dubstep track and copy paste it into a dubstep track =/

agreed!

id still call it a bootleg remix but thats all semantics imho yadda yadda