Word: remixers
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...March 24, 2003, Bryan Chavez, now a junior at Duke University, approached friends Lam Nguyen and Vincent Mao, asking for assistance with a present for his then-girlfriend: an original music video to R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix).” “I hate to sound like something ripped out of a cheesy movie, but to be honest, all this hoopla started because of a girl,” says Chavez. Chavez rounded up Isaac Chan, John Fang, and Matt Vasievich, three other members of their crew, “6-Angst?...
...swarmy, sugar-coated chorus and failed attempt at manufactured gospel. The opening track, “Inside,” prepares us for the occasional verbosity and chronic blandness that characterizes the rest of his songs and “Never Coming Home” sounds like a remix of “Desert Rose,” with the same poppy, spacey, made-for-Jaguar commercial effects. The sad truth of Sacred Love is that it has cemented Sting’s new place in the soccer mom’s five-disc minivan changer. —Michelle...
André missteps on the instrumental “My Favorite Things,” a poorly executed drum and bass remix that leaves us dying for Coltrane’s version. But most of the time André stands unparalleled in the musical landscape. “She Lives in My Lap,” boasts live bass and watery organ against a drunken wheezing loop and André’s scratchy voice. Over jazzy brushed snares and live piano, “She’s Alive” spins a haunting...
Never mind that he reportedly bagged Madonna for a cool $10 million to hawk Gap corduroys while singing a remix of Get Into the Groove with Missy Elliott. That's all just in a day's work for imagemaker Trey Laird. The real story is that Laird's creative vision--always making an emotional connection to the consumer--has put the Gap back in the black...
Like most modern adventures in ubiquity, Grohl's begins with Puffy. In 1998, P. Diddy called Grohl and asked him to do a remix for his song It's All About the Benjamins. Grohl says, "I was like, 'Well, I don't know how to do a remix.' And he basically said, 'Do whatever you want.' So I got a drum set, a guitar and a bass and made some rock music, and they put it under the song. That was my first collaboration...