Black Eyed Peas Remix

29/4/2010

A change a of direction from my original proposal,  I felt a remix of  'Numbers' by Kraftwerk using  the production style of the Black eyed peas wasn't such a good idea after all.

I have now decided to take a bit of a easier route for myself and remix the track Boom Boom Pow by the Black eyed peas in the production style of Conny Plank/ Kraftwerk!

I'm a fan of Kraftwerk so familiar with their work

The first thing I did was to search the internet to see if I could find any stems by BEP's to download.

I coulden't find any stems but fortunately managed to find an Accapella of Boom Boom Pow.

Next, I thought about the Drum track.  Kraftwerk have some great rhythms and sounds in their tracks.
 I thought about trying to recreate the sounds and rhythms myself and also try fitting some samples of Kraftwerk in to track. 

After deciding on the samples I wanted to use I imported these along with the accapella in to Logic. 

I 'cut 'segments from the Kraftwerk tracks 'tour de france' and 'numbers' and edited them to create two rhythm loops dragging the end of the regions to create copies.

Using the flex-mode in logic I 'stretched' the regions to alter the timing of the audio to match the tempo.  Also moving segments of the samples by creating flex markers which allow you to reposition parts of the audio material.