Everyone loves a remix.
Whether its the extended club-dub 12 inch mix of Shannon’s “Let
The Music Play” to the first ever mash-up,
“Rebel Without A Pause”, by The Evolution Control Committee, most weirdoes
agree that remixes are fun. We hear at the Velcro Lewis Group could take ‘em or
leave ‘em but we are intrigued by prospective madness our fans could create if
given the right tools and a little encouragement.
In September, the Velcro
Lewis Group released the single, “Jingle Jangle Morning.” The song has been a
staple of the band’s live performance for years and honestly, we’re getting
kind of bored with it. So, now seems like the perfect time to host a re-mix
party!. Let’s breathe some new life into this jam.
“Sounds fun, right?”
“Sure.”
We’ve made it easy to create your
own mix of “Jingle Jangle Morning.”
Send an email HERE and
we’ll send you a link to download the file folder. We will also send some words
of encouragement to help you define your mix. Something like: “Rufus Thomas
playing tennis in a spacesuit” or “High tea with a man-sized cockroach.” It’ll
be your choice to follow our lead or not.
Once you’ve downloaded the
folder:
·Import each track into your favorite DAW (Pro Tools,
Logic, Ableton, Tascam Portal, Audacity, etc).
·Align the tracks and have at it!
·Do WHATEVER you want with the content, we don’t care.
·There are many ingredients to this mix so the
possibilities are endless.
Mash it up
Add your own vocals or guitars
Rap over it
Dub-step it (whatever that means)
Mix it better than Velcro did for the original
Work on it with your Gramma
Whatever
We will create a digital album that will feature everyone’s mix (yes every single mix) and make it
available for free download.
Deadline for
submissions is April 5, 2015. (soft deadline)
When we were asked to write the theme to a new television pilot we didn’t know what to think.
All the we knew was that it was called, “NOW WHAT?” and that it was a sit-com featuring Jeremy Piven. The good people at the CW called us Thursday afternoon (Jan 15/last night) and wanted a demo by this afternoon (Friday Jan 16). So we spent 6 minutes on it and here’s what we came up with…
Just 6 minutes after we submitted the song to the producer of the show we received this response:
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Dear Velcro,
Thank you for the quick turnaround, however, coa ihouhf oihvhv 4345t v ojnsf kvgrn!???
We jam all the time, endless hours of great material. Some of it too long, some of it too short, all of it outstanding.
In order to justify the release of these jams and to make it seem a little less self-indulgent, we've invited some of our favorite video artists to pair some image to our sounds.
The band recorded the jam on December 11, 2014. Each jam will be recorded and composed live on the spot with as little overdubbing as possible (sometimes you've just got to add the vocoder after the fact. The jam sessions are recorded at Frogg Mountain Studios by John Forbes and Velcro Lewis.
We encourage everyone to turn the volume down on our videos and add your own soundtrack. Play Donnie Iris over it or something. The Magic Box always works!
