Grandmaster Al - Remix Master

Without giving my location away, I have to say I'm not overly enthused by my current surroundings, so every so often, we have to get of out of the city. A few weeks ago, we managed to get to Lahinch. For no other reason than to breathe some fresh air and see and hear the sea on a sunny (freezing) January day. I forgot to change the batteries on the camera though, so I have minimal snapshots. Followed it up with some lovely chowder after.

2nd year music tech student, already have a bit of knowledge, building it by degrees.

We did have an official recording project before Christmas, which went well - not great but ok, so now the current project is a remix of someone elses track. Remix is a bit of a dirty word is it not? Moby has done some good stuff, lots of rubbish, Fatboy Slim has his followers, but really, my genre would be leaning towards Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails. Easy enough to remix, if you're already in an elecronica frame of mind. How would you go about remixing something that's got more organic roots? Would you take an acoustic guitar, sample it, stick through a vocoder and still call it an acoustic guitar? Does it automatically become techno?