How Will I Know [More Than I Bargained For re-mix] by uegmusic
Whitney Houston’s debut album has been re-released as a special 25th anniversary edition. The song Freddie Washington and I co-wrote (Someone For Me) is on the new album twice. The second version is a remix of sorts. I heard a bit of it and was hoping for more of a deconstruction of the song. With projects like the Nina Simone remix project, the Verve Remix series and so many many more, I wanted to hear some adventurous music using the original vocal as a springboard. Especially since there is a whole subculture of remixers in various genres who are doing amazing work accessible at sites like indabamusic.com, acidplanet.com, and others where they have contests and people can share and support each other.
I wanted to give an example of the possibilities that are afforded when you have a great vocal talent like Ms Houston to work with as a basic element of a remix. To that end, I purchased a download of the a capella vocal for the song How Will I Know from the re-release (yes I paid my .99). Since Producer great Narada Michael Walden and I are Facebook friends, I have apologized to him in advance for what I have done with his pop classic masterpiece.
How I got there:
This mix was done in Live 8 with a couple of Reason 4 instruments via Rewire protocol (in layman’s terms, its a way to connect two separate programs to work together). I used many instances of Kontakt 3 sampler for many of the orchestral instruments (from the NI library) as well as a couple of samples from the Ableton EIC collection. The drum kit was a kit from the Ableton Session Drums software package. The metal chime sample was a public domain sample culled from a web search for such a sample. I loaded it into Ableton Simpler (sampler) where it mapped itself and played in pitch on the correct keys.
Influences are Charles Stepney (check the placement of the harp glissandos), arranger Richard Niles, drummer (and friend) Omar Hakim (without the tasty fills), producer/engineer Jason Cosaro and the young Whitney singing her heart out!!
great production ,id buy a copy .well done
Raymond… I just love this. I would love to see Whitney go outside the ” concert box” and do a concert of this kind of thought. Great re-mixes of her songs… With so many wonderful people doing remixes of great songs, i believe there is a calling for this… The idea of a song that is time tested and loved… wrapped in a new thought and presented in this forum is… dabomb! Dreamy!!!!!!!! Great work my dear.. Great work:)