WARNING - Lots of WORDS below.

Cassette Kids - Acrobat (Outlaws Party Mix)


Here's a remix I did for Australian band Cassette Kids and a little on the story behind it, which you may or may not find interesting, but I'm going to tell you anyway.

I did this mix a while back and never finished it. I submitted it and it went down well, but there was no money for it at the time and so it was left unfinished, but it got a good reaction at gigs and the other DJs and label people I played it to as friends were all positive, so I just though "take that one for the team, it was fun to do, let's just let it go, boo hoo", that kind of thing. Then I kind of forgot about it.

Then it was kind of brought back to my attention when I got a lovely email from the blogosphere asking about the mix, saying it was great and that it gave the band the balls they needed to swing some dancefloor action. Which was nice.

I thought this was all pretty positive of course, but I had to wonder how the mix had been released into the wild? After all, I'd never finished it and I hadn't been paid for it and no one had it except for a few DJ mates and music industry types who were good about not sharing stuff.

A little exchange of emails later and it turned out that Sony themselves had sent out the mix! Oh the excitement!
It seems like it must have been hanging out in a dusty hard drive of promo materials and they thought "oh that sounds OK, let's get it out there and hopefully get some more folk turned on to the band". And then I would imagine it was "seeded" to "bloggers" to use what I believe is the technical parlance.

Here I chucked the shits a bit because I hadn't been paid, there'd been no contact with me and I hadn't finished what I'd be doing on the mix. I thought it was slightly off that something I'd half done was being used as a promotional tool for THE BIG LABELS MAN. So then it all disappeared from Internet land before it even existed.

I had a nice talk with a lady at Sony trying to sort stuff out, and she was really positive, wanted what was best for the band which was cool and was trying to do something interesting with them. We even talked about little me doing some production with them, which I would have really enjoyed - I wanted to have a go on the first thing they recorded, but it had to be done quickly and I had to fly back to the UK so the awesome Jono Ma from The Lost Valentinos (who you'll be hearing a lot more about soon) did it instead.

But then nothing happened. They stopped replying to my emails and I got bored waiting. I liked the mix, other people liked it too, so here it is, I thought it would be good to get it out there, get rid of it and get it out of my head.

I don't know if I'm kind of making sure I'll never do any work for Sony again in future, and this isn't a case of sour grapes because I didn't get any production work with the band or money for the mix either, honestly, I'm so busy at the moment it's not even funny! I just thought it might be interesting and you might like the music (you might think it’s shit and I’m though, oh well…). I hope you get some enjoyment from it anyway and go and see Cassette Kids, they're a pretty cool band.

Posted at 7:26 PM