Kmag Sabre Remix Competition Preview

15 Apr 2010

Sabre

Our first remix competition in November was an incredible success with nearly 100 producers remixing Icicle's Time To Remember on Shogun Audio.

So we had our work cut out to top it but I think we've managed it. One of the most anticipated albums of the year is Sabre's A Wandering Journal on Critical Recordings and Sabre has just written a track called One Hundred Teeth specially for this competition.

You can download the free track below and in a few weeks time you'll get all the parts. We spoke to Sabre to get a bit of background on the track:

Originally you were going to give us the parts to your track Leaf for the remix competition but you've written a new track, why?
I lost the parts to Leaf in a computer failure along with a lot of my other old music. I've got everything associated with the album saved but previous to that is a bit of a mess. I lost a lot of the old samples I've been collecting since about 1998 that I came back on time and time again.

So I had a to make a fresh track and it's the first thing that I've made since the album. I've had to use a whole new palette of sounds and samples and it's been really refreshing.

Was your approach to writing One Hundred Teeth any different because you were making it for people to remix?
No, I just wanted to make a piece of music that stood up on its own. I also wanted to make sure that it linked in sonically with A Wandering Journal so that it seemed like it could have appeared on the album and maintained the same sort of tension as the tracks on the album.

In terms of its balance between being dancefloor and experimental, I just wanted it to sit somewhere in the middle. It's quite rowdy in a lot of senses, it's not particularly minimal, it's just that the beats are very sparse. It's got an interesting wonky beat and I think that people are going to have fun with the elements within it...

Make sure you come back at the end of March for all the parts, the brief on what Sabre is looking for and how he approaches remixes himself.

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By the way, the prizes on offer will be: £1000 of Addict clothes and a SoundCloud Pro Plus account for the winner and SoundCloud Lite accounts for three runners up.

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