Elbow Vs Luka

[Luka]

Check out our new tune. It's a remix of the ace "The Night Will Always Win" by Elbow. I hope you like!

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[Danny T]

Sick Remix

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[Luka]

Thanks Danny. Glad you're feeling it.

Luka

[Debaser1]

I must say, as elbow are one of my favourite bands, this just ruins a truly beautiful song for me, I'm really sorry. But it's fairly inconsequential, not a lot happens, and it what you've added just retracts from the original. I keep trying to dig in deeper to hear the actual elbow tune. Also, when doing a remix, dont just play the tune out with stuff added, that's more a refix. The key to a good remix is to use as little of the original as possible.
My bit of positive feedback would be that it's a nicely produced track. Just a shame that I'm not a fan, and it ruins a band that are close to my heart.
Honesty all the way there, sorry if it was a tad brutal man aha

[Luka]

I appreciate your honesty.

Elbow are also one of my favourite bands and when I heard the original on the album, this is just what sprung to mind so I went home and made it. I know it's often the done thing to pull a tune completely apart to do a remix but I sometimes feel that this is just making a new tune using samples of another. There sometimes seems to be a very fine line between between a remix and an original tune with some samples. I think that it can fine for a remix to be a reinterpretation of a song which keeps the original structure and some of the feel of the tune without making something entirely new and that's what I was aiming for here.

As for being inconsequential, the idea was for a slow subtle build from quite a bare beginning to the crescendo of the strings at the end - the idea being that it kind of creeps up without anything making too big a deal of itself along the way. I played with the idea of breakdowns and fills but they didn't quite work somehow.

I know how it feels to hear a song I love treated in a way that I feel is less than complimentary so I understand your points entirely.