Troels Abrahamsen, whose tremendous album WHT I have praised elsewhere on my blog, has recently submitted the vocal track of the song End Scene from that album for free download and encouraged people to remix him. The article in his blog is
here.
This is not only very kind and generous, especially when considering the fact that he has released that track under a
Creative Commons license, but also a great opportunity, because the song itself is a great tune. You can listen to the original version
here.
I found myself thinking over Troels’ sound and style quite a couple of times when making my own music, and here is my chance to contribute with a new angle to his work. That is amazing! So, I did a remix. Sort of. It’s probably rather what you’d call bastard pop. I had this idea last night – right before I fell asleep, and tried it earlier this evening, and it seemed to work quite well. I took one of my own songs (Untitled 6, which I wrote in March/April 2008, being inspired by Portishead’s concert in KB Hallen), and put it together with Troels’ vocals. And this is what it turned out to be: