Slaygon - The Last V8 (feat. Necropolo, Harri & Mimmi)

29 other remixes of Last V8

Bass: Harri Tuovila (Griffin)

Voice: Mimmi

I wanted a rough Last V8, because that's what it always has sounded like for me, so I did the drum track to begin with, and sent it off to Necropolo who did some gorgeaus guitar work.

Initially I also had a synthetic bass in the track, but that ended up feeling wrong, so I sent it to Harri who promptly put his magic fingers on the bass strings, and created this bassline for it.

Arrangement-wise, this is more or less 1:1. Another one of those tracks that is so bloody awesome to begin with that it only needed slightly polished instrumentation to be current.

I thought of using the too-much-used V8 samples, but decided to upgrade them to a female voice, which is where Mimmi comes in. And rather than filling the track with screeching tires and samples from the game and all that, I decided it would be quite enough with Mimm's voice so as not to overload the track with irrelevant stuff, and to keep the raw rock feeling to it.

I think it worked out pretty nicely.

This is as close as I can get to how I imagined the SID to be like. All rock, shredding away on the guitars, having a pounding beat, punching you in your stomach with the bass… This is how I remember the SID. Prove me wrong. (X-FormZ/Dimmignatt… I know you can! Do it!)

Also, thanks Rob! Very memorable moments thanks to this tune!

Thanks to Necropolo, Harri and Mimmi - This would have been exactly nothing without you.

Also thanks to Mordi, Max Hall and Ziphoid for pre-listens and input on WIPs. Much appreciated!

Hope you enjoy this remix, and indeed all of 2011!

Happy (rocky) New Year!