Bluevibe remix
Proof remix
After getting the “Fallin” track on the Loop recording compilation and doing a few gigs we decided to put out a Skyman promo e.p. with 2 versions of “Believe” on it. The original version of believe can be heard on the 3 track podcast from our live set and was a completely different version from the final promo release. I could never really finish the original version, it worked well live but just never had the right feel to it in the studio.
The funk version of Believe was actually written in a few days and took the vocal and piano from the original along with a heavy sample break, funk guitar and horns plus that 808 boom under the break. Deb’s vocal for the track was always wicked and didn’t need anything too busy under it, I guess that’s why this version worked for me.
The Proof remix is an 11 minute monster in typical Tech style, I helped on some final tweaks with some of the strings and fades. Tech lost the whole song after a computer system failure so the only version we had was a 16bit bounce which is the only real copy of this track still in existence (back shit up people back shit up!!). We just burned and printed about 100 copies of the e.p. and sent it out to all the NZ radio stations and DJ’s we thought might play it, it got some good support and was an excellent learning process. You can buy the tracks on line at amplifier but we dont have any hard copies left, not sure we even have one in the studio now!
I’ll be posting more about our on going promotion strategies for our future tracks, if you’ve got any thoughts and suggestions on promoting yourself in NZ then just let me know. Our next step for promotion is getting our tracks heard internationally which is an altogether different propositon than getting local play. We’re still getting our plan of attack together for that so any suggestions would be great.
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