Shortly after the release of our Any Questions? - Mutation CD in 2000, we were contacted by Jason Bazinet from the Seattle, WA elektro-punk-cyber-rap band SMP. He was assembling a CD of remixes (later released as Hacked) for songs from his Terminal CD and he wanted us to contribute to it. Up until this point, we had never remixed another band's material so we thought that it would be challenging (and fun) to do.
We received a CD from Jason with all of the various parts (drum loops, bass lines, synth lines, vocals, etc) for the songs from Terminal. We checked out the CD and chose to do his song called Mutate. After all, our latest release was called Mutation so we thought that it was only fitting that we'd remix a song title that was so similar to our CD name.
We quickly got to work on it. We didn't want to take the easy way out and simply rearrange the parts that SMP had supplied to us so we started from scratch. I laid down a dance beat using our Roland MC-303 and then moved onto working on a funky synth bass line. While I was working on those parts, MC2P4 was busy transcribing the original lyrics for the song. Again, we didn't want to simply take the easy way out by using the original supplied vocal tracks from the song so I ended up singing (rapping?) the verses and only used a small detuned vocal sample for the song's chorus parts. I added other synth parts, a sampled arpeggio from the original song, and P4 recorded some Clavia Nord Lead 2 stabs and a synth solo. I mixed it and we were done.
The end result is a song unlike anything else that we have ever done. From Any Questions?, a Hypermedia Industrial Death band, you would not expect this "urban-influenced" rap-like remix. Sadly, this remix never made it onto the remix CD, Hacked. The writer of the song left SMP before the CD was released and did not allow Jason to use any of the remixes for songs that he had originally written. So, here it is... the long unreleased remix from Any Questions? for the SMP song, Mutate.
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