Love Lockdown (Jay Slim Remix) - Kanye West
Jay Slim Remixes Kanye's Love Lockdown
This is officially my first dance track. Again, I tried to go the opposite direction of the original. Love Lockdown was very basic, rough, and intentionally unpolished with distorted vocals and Kanye's ridiculous singin. The song was hot, but you couldn't play it out at a club, so I decided to whip up a dance version for all the DJ's out there. Check it out...
Love Lockdown (Jay Slim Remix) - Kanye West
Love Lockdown (Jay Slim Remix) - Kanye West
Jay Slim Remixes Lil Wayne's Mrs. Officer
For this remix, I wanted to take the song in an entirely different direction from the original. The original is very chill, and very simple. I wanted to see how it would sound with a more aggressive and up-beat feel to it, and here's how it turned out.
This was the first time I experimented with multiple melodies and drum variations in a single song. At around the 0:13 mark, you hear the intro melody. At the 0:34, you hear the hook melody. And at the 0:57 mark, you hear the verse melody. Also, if you notice, I made the drum pattern different for the hook vs the rest of the song. Originally I had the hook drums the same as the rest of the song, but after I made the synth melodies, I changed the drum pattern to line up with the synths so that they all work together.
Hope you guys like it. Leave comments!
Setting the Stage
What's going on peoples?
As this is my first post, I feel it's only right to tell you all who I am, what this is all about, and what you can expect to read about as this blog continues.
I've been involved in music, in some form or fashion, since the late 80's. As a kid, I used to love messing around with the piano (without lessons) for fun. Elementary school band intro'd me to the clarinet. Then in the early 90's my math tutor (DJ C-Note, Grand Groove, Cerritos All-Stars), of all people, got me started DJ'ing. In some time, I began competitive DJ'ing, ultimately leading me to the prestigious ITF and DMC competitions and earning both ITF West Coast Champ and DMC US 2nd Runner-up marks in 2000. Since then, I've been staying low-key, getting back to more of the organics. I've taken up playing the guitar, DJ'ing random spots and on livemixshow.com with my crew the Cerritos All-Stars, but most of all, I've been getting into the art of music production.
Roc Raida and Jay Slim in the documentary "Scratch"
I have to thank Sprint for making horrible ringtone renditions of popular songs back around 2002 or so. Not even joking, without that, I probably wouldn't have ever gotten into producing. Back then, cel phones didn't have the ability to just play back actual songs as ringtones, so phone companies started composing their own computer music ring tones to sound like the hot songs at the time. It used to always piss me off though cuz they were always made wrong, so one day I said F' it and just decided to make them the right way on my own. Then I asked myself, why not try to make your own.
Since then, all through learning-by-doing, I've been honing my craft, learning about all the different ins and outs that go into making a complete composition, from harmonies, to instrumentation, to sound augmentation. I've been doing this casually, but now I'm ready to get serious. I really want to master this craft and get to the point where my music is heard by people around the world
As this blog goes on, I'll be sharing with you guys my experiences on honing my craft, gaining exposure, and hopefully landing placement with a major artist. I'll be sharing my music with you all along the way. Stay tuned...
As this is my first post, I feel it's only right to tell you all who I am, what this is all about, and what you can expect to read about as this blog continues.
I've been involved in music, in some form or fashion, since the late 80's. As a kid, I used to love messing around with the piano (without lessons) for fun. Elementary school band intro'd me to the clarinet. Then in the early 90's my math tutor (DJ C-Note, Grand Groove, Cerritos All-Stars), of all people, got me started DJ'ing. In some time, I began competitive DJ'ing, ultimately leading me to the prestigious ITF and DMC competitions and earning both ITF West Coast Champ and DMC US 2nd Runner-up marks in 2000. Since then, I've been staying low-key, getting back to more of the organics. I've taken up playing the guitar, DJ'ing random spots and on livemixshow.com with my crew the Cerritos All-Stars, but most of all, I've been getting into the art of music production.
Roc Raida and Jay Slim in the documentary "Scratch"
I have to thank Sprint for making horrible ringtone renditions of popular songs back around 2002 or so. Not even joking, without that, I probably wouldn't have ever gotten into producing. Back then, cel phones didn't have the ability to just play back actual songs as ringtones, so phone companies started composing their own computer music ring tones to sound like the hot songs at the time. It used to always piss me off though cuz they were always made wrong, so one day I said F' it and just decided to make them the right way on my own. Then I asked myself, why not try to make your own.
Since then, all through learning-by-doing, I've been honing my craft, learning about all the different ins and outs that go into making a complete composition, from harmonies, to instrumentation, to sound augmentation. I've been doing this casually, but now I'm ready to get serious. I really want to master this craft and get to the point where my music is heard by people around the world
As this blog goes on, I'll be sharing with you guys my experiences on honing my craft, gaining exposure, and hopefully landing placement with a major artist. I'll be sharing my music with you all along the way. Stay tuned...
