




Remixing, for me, is dangerous ground. An artist is trusting me with their creation. Their baby. The result of their emotions, their creativity, their hard work. I like to think that, when an artist has me remix one of their songs, they are trusting me to take care of their child. To put the child in a new set of clothes so that he or she may be presented to a new audience that the artist might not have originally reached. To simply throw a dance beat under a vocal and add some noise here and there is not sufficient. Remixing requires a complete reworking of the song from the ground up. It requires an understanding of the artist's original goal, and the desire to add my own flavor and personality to that goal without overshadowing it.
It is with this in mind that I approach remixing. I do not want to simply mute some tracks, unmute others, and add some effects. I try to make each remix a combination of my own sonic vision and that of the original artist. Remixes often take far more of my time than my own music does, due to the care I take in preserving the song. But I find it a very fulfilling process. Every time I sit down to a new song, I begin an adventure completely outside of my own projects.