Remix a tune in the style of Black Flag/Rollins Band

Waz · Post by **Waz** » 14/01/2004 - 19:11

That's my new challenge to any remixer :)

Basically, for those of you who haven't heard of Black Flag, they were one of the most inspiration punk/hardcore bands of the early 1980s, whom after a few releases just so happened to have the godlike genius of Henry Rollins on vocal duties. Think fast paced style, lots of guitar feedback, 200mph pace and full-on Rollins (much like he still is today).

Or if that's too fast for you, try the style of Rollins Band (which Henry formed after Black Flag split up) if you dare!

ifadeo · Post by **ifadeo** » 14/01/2004 - 19:24

I prefer The Ramones, The Damend and Die Ãƒâ€žrzte... if it comes to punk....

cheers ifadeo

Maindrian · Post by **Maindrian** » 16/01/2004 - 11:17

Bleh, The Pistols and Stiff Little Fingers for me.

Only Black Flag song I can remember is T.V. Party. Is that what they usually sound like?

Waz · Post by **Waz** » 16/01/2004 - 14:57

Maindrian wrote:Only Black Flag song I can remember is T.V. Party. Is that what they usually sound like?

Sometimes, yes, sometimes a bit more hardcore and faster!

Mind you, I love the version of TV Party Rollins Band did for the CD "Rise Above". That CD rocks, with lots of people helping out with vocal duties on versions of Black Flag songs, including Iggy Pop, Lemmy, Ice T, Mike Patton, guys from Slayer, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot etc. And Rollins himself of course, naturellement:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 26-9095607

Anyway, any remix done in that sort of punk style (a la that 720 degrees remix) would be nice to hear. Hell, I'm even volunteering to do a Henry Rollins-like vocal for anyone interested, that's how much I'd like to see it.

Chris Abbott · Post by **Chris Abbott** » 16/01/2004 - 15:01

I think the problem is the difficulty of getting anywhere-near-realistic guitar if you're not a guitarist. And if you get a guitarist, you have record said guitarist, etc, etc. Wavetable still doesn't really cut it. Hence the relative lack of guitar covers, except by people who can actually play!

Now if they were a SYNTH punk band...

Chris

CraigG · Post by **CraigG** » 16/01/2004 - 15:57

Waz - or how about a C64 song a la Wire? (Two members of which performed Heartbeat with Big Black.)

http;//www.posteverything.com/wire

ifadeo · Post by **ifadeo** » 16/01/2004 - 16:05

Maindrian wrote:Bleh, The Pistols and Stiff Little Fingers for me...

Stiff Little Fingers are also one of my favorite punk bands, they wrote
some fab songs like: Alternative Ulster, Johnny Was and Wasted Life....
which are my personal favorite songs from them.....

btw.where is your interview ?

cheers ifadeo

Maindrian · Post by **Maindrian** » 16/01/2004 - 16:30

Whoops, forgot about that. I filled it out, but my computer is now out of action. Since I can't be arsed to fill it out twice, you'll have to wait until I've gotten the old girl set up again. Sorry about my inherant laziness.

But back to the topic, its all very well talking about doing a remix in that style, but the problem lies with finding a suitable SID tune. 720 Degrees was perfectly chosen, but I can't think of any more. Only the boss theme from Blasteroids springs to mind. I had a go at that once, with downtuned guitars, lots and lots of distortion and a string break ending. Absolutely the most dreadful noise I've ever created. More grunge than punk though.

Well, any good SID suggestions would help.

Waz · Post by **Waz** » 17/01/2004 - 11:37

SID suggestions like you asked, Mandrian:

/VARIOUS/M-R/PRI/Death_Metal.sid
/Hubbard_Rob/Skate_or_Die_intro.sid (still no one's done a good enough mix of this one!!)
/Hubbard_Rob/Arcade_Classics.sid
/Yip/Netherworld.sid
/Hatlelid_Kris/Grand_Prix_Circuit.sid
/VARIOUS/A-F/Fanta/Hat_Trick_4Fanta.sid
/VARIOUS/S-Z/Tonka/Aggresso-Hubbard.sid

I'll try and think of some more too...

Maindrian · Post by **Maindrian** » 17/01/2004 - 12:48

Oh, I've been wanting to remix Grand Prix Ciruit for a while now. I had planned more of a Devo synth-rock sound for that one though. When My comp gets fixed up, who knows?

Edit: Checked that lot out. "Aggresso-Hubbard" by Tonka... Wow. I think I've found a new favourite SID. Might give that one a go some time in the future.

ifadeo · Post by **ifadeo** » 21/01/2004 - 15:19

Chris Abbott wrote:I...
Now if they were a SYNTH punk band...

Chris

Do you mean Cyberpunk style ??? i'm currently working on Matt Grays
Deliverance (90% finshed)... inspired by William Gibson....

cheers ifadeo

Larsec · Post by **Larsec** » 27/01/2004 - 20:20

Inspite of me thinking of Rollins as a genious I never really got into the music that much, I'm mostly into the spoken stuff...

To quote from Boris: "On two concert I'm should collected photo but such small fat baldheaded technologist be insane!"

Waz · Post by **Waz** » 28/01/2004 - 10:54

Larsec wrote:To quote from Boris: "On two concert I'm should collected photo but such small fat baldheaded technologist be insane!"

Imagine an airline disaster movie in that language?

"Stupid mother on flaming! I declaration emergency!"