One of the cool things about remixing (I know, again again again) is the ability to hook up, albeit virtually and perhaps without their knowledge, and lend your own spin to their work. So this week, some cool intersections.

First of all, on ccmixter, I found an mp3 from a Wired Magazine pack. Spoon has been with me lately, mainly due to my old friend, Robert Rising, giving me a random CD of awesome pop, the best of which was Cherry Bomb off of Gagagaga. This may be the best pop song I have ever heard in my life, and made me deliriously happy in the downtrodden, week-after-new-years that I had here in 2008. So I remixed their song, Revenge into a weirdo, ambient piece.

Secondly, I returned to my piano roots, sharing a duet with old dog, whose chops are definitely better than mine (his playing comes after the break, mine before).

Third, another strange coincidence with a Turkish musician of note, Murat Ses, an innovator of Turkish pop music, who like my Father before him, was/is revolutionary in changing Turkish music from oral folk tradition into something quite modern and new. He asked if I would relinquish a non-commercial creative commons license into a commercial one with attribution. I said yes (of course, effendim). The odd thing is, we had no idea who the other was, I had no idea of his legacy and he had no idea I was the daughter of another legacy. I am trying to remix his Anadolu Pop Theme, and it is KICKING MY ASS but I will finish.

I have sent some more loops off to ditto ditto, in France, who I hope to meet in person in March when I go there. So hopefully another collaboration will come of these loops.

Here is the music:

Breaking Apart, Sous Bois (featuring old dog, plagasul & dplante)

Revenge (Mix Cuit A Four) featuring viop & Spoon

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