Games Without Frontiers Remix

Well I'm nearing the end of remixing Peter Gabriels 1980 release of "Games Without Frontiers". It was a great educational process as well as joy to work with one of my favorite songs by PG. I won't say that I'll have it ready for uploading to the RealWorld site for access in the next week or two. It's usually at this stage I set things aside for a bit and then go back to them to fine tune, mix and master, so I hope to have it up there within the month.

Games Without Frontiers Remix

Sadly I missed the deadline for the remix competition of Peter Gabriel's song Games Without Frontiers (only one of my many faves from him). Unfortunately for me, I found out less than a week before the deadline and as it turned out, the deadline was earlier than I realized as the judging portion of the competition was included in the final date. I am going to pick it up again and continue to finish it. I had been a bit reticent about it since I have so many other pieces of my own I would like to complete and I was afraid that missing the deadline would mean I would not be able to make it available for listening (as that IS the point isn't it? LOL! Well I found out that despite the competition has passed, I will still be able to upload a remix to the Real World site and then embed a link to it so others can stream it if they wish.

I would never make it available otherwise for fear of infringing on copyright and I have oogles amount of respect and admiration for Peter Gabriel to ignore that.

So, when it is finished I will keep all posted and provide a link so you can listen to my interpretation.

Peace,

Anthony

Peter Gabriel "Games Without Frontiers" Remix Attempt

Peter Gabriel through his organization "RealWorld" is offering his song "Games Without Frontiers" to be remixed in honor of this Summer's X Games.

PG has been a tremendous influence on many artists, in many genres. He has been a major influence of mine since I was a young teenager. I can honestly say it was a direct result of his experimental and unique approach to music that introduced me to more eclectic tastes in music.

Real Word has made the individual tracks of the original recording available for download to be used in remixing. Everything from PG's vocals to the individual lead lines and bass parts.

So I've taken the challenge and have begun working on my own rendition of his song as of last night. Unfortunately the contest deadline is July 15th, and I only found out two days ago that it began in early June! I cannot say I may make the deadline in time, but at the very least I'm going to give me best to honor the song and pay tribute to one of my all time artistic hero's.

I have never really considered doing a remix of an existing work aside from perhaps recreating some songs to play for my own enjoyment. So my approach to this is part experiment and part bliss! This was the first Gabriel song I ever heard. I fell in love with it the first time I listened to it while waiting in my mom's car as she ran into the grocery store.

I am purposely staying away from remixing this song into a high tempo drum and bass type trance mix because that isn't the type of work I do. However, I do wish to stay pretty true to the original melody structure and rhythm but in my own style.

Well that is all on that for now. I made serious headway late last night (until 4am) and I hope to have as productive a day or evening today as well.

Wish me well!

Peace,

Anthony Fasolo

Hmmm Technology

So, I'm trying to figure out how to get this very nice music player from ILike to work on my website, but I'm having a terror of a time with it. It seems to work lovely with Blogger, but not liking IWeb all that much. I must be doing something wrong. I will fuss some more tomorrow, and maybe - just maybe finish remixing an older piece that . . .well. . . needed remixing. Ahh, I'm sooooo behind.

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Finding herself amongst murky dense thickets, Lilly is bewildered. A gentle mist rises from the earth enveloping her body, it's moist nothingness causing her gauzy gown of silk to cling oh so tightly to her young tender flesh.

On the horizon the final glow of dusk fades to black. Lilly is alone.

She reaches through the darkness grasping for anything to guide her through the scratchy brambles only to clutch emptiness.

A desperate but inaudible cry escapes her trembling lips as she pushes on.

From below, deep within the bowels of the muddy soggy earth her utterance is heard

I've Been Selected as July's Featured Experimental Artist on MyStage!

This is real nice. I struggle constantly with the direction I take with my work, and which direction it will go and this was a nice surprise for me.

Thank you MyStage!

Anthony