Two more weeks left in the Blueprint Remix Contest! This week we’re getting into the Bink-produced “Blueprint (Momma Loves Me)”. Some of you may be wondering, what about “Renegade”? Well, two reasons… there is no acapella available and there is no sample in the song. So we’re skipping it. The sample this week is Al Green’s “Free At Last”… one of my favorites songs. That song has been flipped so many times, so make sure to do something funky with it if you wanna stand out.
MJ Beat Contest Update: Still going through the remixes… it will be DJ Grain and myself picking the beats. Then DJ Grain is gonna hop in and do something nice with it. We’ll announce the winners in a week or two, but we’re planning the release of the mixtape for MJ’s birthday next month.
If you’re new to the contest, read the rules. I think the rules mention uploading your remix to a final sharing service. If so, disregard and upload via the embedded widget below. Please remember to name your mp3 with your name only when uploading via the widget below. If you made changes and have to reupload, add -FINAL after your name. Remix is due next Sunday (July 19th) by 3pm Eastern Time. Good luck!
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im not missin this one for nothin
Just submitted mine…comments appreciated!
Tokyo – YOO…LOVE the rhodes synth you used! The layering and changeups work well! Drums fit the orchestration well too! Dope ish fam!
I jus submitted mines
Shout Outs! to Tokyo and GC Y’all got Crack
GC- I actually stood up when i heard your mix man…the total f’n package!!!
just submitted….oh G.C, you a bad man!!…. ridiculous
Thanks for the love everyone for real!
Natown – Good to have you back fam! You always bring a vibe that is distinctly Natown…dopeness!
Razor – The higher octave works on this joint! The snaps work with the vibe, I prefer thick boom bap drums personally, but it fits well! Dope!
Perfect – The vocals sound about a quarter bar off, but it works in this remix! If it was unintentional, move em a quarter bar to the right. If it was intentional, do it big fam! Plus the chops are thick on this one! Good job!
comp i serious this week! *sigh* i hate u guys…lol. be back soon.
*comp IS serious. my bad.
This is the same sample from my all time fav Mary J joint “No One Else”.
Blue … Standin Ovation
G.C. Yu went dumb on dat 1
Good Lookin out Zay But Tht blue is by natown i jus forgot to put my name on it
can someone tell me why my upload wont play in the embedded player? the one without a producer credit is mine…
Just uploaded mine, gotta go, not much time, but please comment this one, i’m not sure right now.
Peace
oh, before i go, GC ! SupaDope !
Damn,
I beg for your help.
It’s just a “draft” but the base is already in it.
Please make comments on this one.
THX Fam !
here’s my 2 cents even though GC is clearly runnin away with this one. hope yall like it.
sup yall, let me know how yall feell bout my joint
Pitch….excellent chops and nice mix down dude
Tony Blitz…..i really enjoyed yours because you gave the track relevance
Natown…Whoo! Very nice man…your production style reminds me of Dj Toomp….one of my favorite producers right now….great job
Rodloos…i like the instrument you added to the song…but where the drums man? i think it would sound nice with a good drum pattern on it
Tokyo…what more can i say man…from the crazy new york-like boom bap drums to the instrument playing….nice work
Mellow Daze…..loved the drums and you kept the sample loop simple and it still came out ill
Clear Blue….did you slow the octave on the sample? because i did the opposite with mine….the only thing you need to work on is the mixing…jay’s voice sounds behind the beat….possibly the bass needs to be lowered…but other than nice work man
Bidimridim….. Ha! you sped up the sample like me! love the bass my dude plus they match perfectly with the drums
Bigfunkygf3…..smart tactic how you sped the acapela to give the song a different tempo…now your mix is in its own league…the al green yells came out nice too
yes, i really didn t feel like choppin this sample so i tried to keep it simple… lotta displayable talent in this contest!
thnx Razor!! your work not bad too!and Natown….it’s dope stuff, realy!!! this track bang my hеad! And in general all tracks are good. Strong guys meet here!!
thanx razor. i’d clean up the accapella a bit more but i kno i ain’t got this one. it’s all good tho. u have no idea how much fuckin wit yall on these contests has upped my game. still got a ways 2 go but it’s nice 2 know i’m on the rite trak(pun intended)..
Just submitted my jawn. Gotdammmn G.C.
Hey What’s up,
I didn’t listen to the BOX entries I’ve just focused on my joint and made party. lol
But I’m sure that people’s already killed that remix.
THX Razor for your review. The drums from the original sample were here but they didn’t sound correct due to a flangus. I’ve fixed it.
I hope y’all enjoy it. Plus the sound FX.
Holla
Razor – Yes I did slow down the octave into small sinppets, plus used some small sounds from other parts of the sample – preciate the feedback man
Tony Blitz shit is crazy, as well as many others on here – def a tight competetion this week
Again, thanks for the love everyone! Yo Beat Matixx, you from the DC area kid? Only people from my hometown say “jawn”…what up homie!
respect to ya´´ll. nice works
Yo G.C, well placed sample my man.
It is a pity that it’s impossible to make in Russian stylistics! It would be the bomb)), unfortunately Al Green not absolutely Russian singer))) And Jay too not so Russian!!
What up Squad! Just submitted my remix and I will check out the rest of them in a few.Feedback and comments are welcomed.
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Why did I choose to listen to G.C.’s beat lol. Now i don’t even want to make a submission lol. That shit was tight. Wouldn’t surprise me if he takes this week.
Lemme KNow What Ya’ll Think of this one
Perfect- that chop is ridiculous bruh, so dope
Tokyo-I like it but the vox seem off
BigFunky- f*%# yeah man thats it f*%# yeah
Good Lookin out Razor u a beast on tha track
PLEASE…do not sleep
MOMMA LOVES ME AGAIN (SCAM)
thanks kindly
What up everybody? I’m brand new here. Just found this site a little while ago and thought it was nuts! There’s a lot of good remixes on this track by you guys. I’m lovin’ it!
RodLoOs…..Track is bananas!!!!! Nice!
ha… lol EkZakT. bassline u got on that shit is sick dude. sum nu shyt wit da cuts under. dope.
I don’t want to enter this contest. The bar is too high. lol
I’ve just downloaded the original sample in order to appreciate your remixes.
So, for now this what I got to say :
GC : Wow !! I like the way you did it man. And it sounds clean. Great work !
RodLoOs : You’re A F*$*ing Genius, man. It sounds different but it’s vibrating. You have a gfit. I guess It’s not your final one so I’m sure you’re improving your remix right now. You Crazy Maestro lol R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
just submitted mine… Imma be back later to comment on yall…
what up G.C. I’m reppin the DMV fo sho
There it goes…tell me what you think!
Lotta hot stuff goin’ this week!
Thanks for the props guys.
Here’s my final one. Enjoy
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Whats gud ppl… This weeks entry is up! I’ve gone in a mad different direction this week..mixin tings up a bit u know…
For real tho this comp gets better every week man damn! From what I’ve heard so far Perfect Piiitch & GC really killed that sample, and in completely different ways, big ups! I’ll get at some of the others later today..
Peace!
Geat remixes.
Congratulations to all.
Just found this this page today, had to make the remix fast. Did a lot of chopping.Think it turned out pretty good. Hope you like it! Seem to be pretty stiff compettion,
That swedish guy…from nowhere…ish is sick!
I kept it pretty simple this week. I like it. Hope you do too. Any comments appreciated
Oh thanks Vol! listening to yours now. It’s Good, Really like that bass sound.
Keep up the good work!
/Niklas
Peace fam. Here we go….the last joint. This ish has been a lot of fun. I’m proud to see all of us step the beat game up. This week the comp is ridiculous. A lot of dudes brought some serious heat. I got a chance to check out a few of them. Of the ones I heard, these stood out to me:
Beat Matixx
Bidiridim-real different
GC
Isbjerg
Perfect PIIITCH
Vol-real different
I know I missed plenty of them though. But just about everyone did nice work
Isbjerg: I had to address you specifically because you always spend the most time trying to help others with your commentary. Greatly appreciated bro. Thanks for the compliments from before too. As for your beat, the sonics( ill mix) were excellent and like the trip-hop while maintaining that gutter feel. The horns at the end were dope, however, I would have introduced them earlier. The song lacked a bit of variation. Add that and a few elements of change earlier and it’s a ill remix.
Congrats Tokyo and GC! That cave kings ish was dope. The rhyme style is crazy and ofcourse GC laced the beats. Much props.
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Doing some tweaking before I put up my final mix.
it’s up. check it out.
Wow, i just posted a comment for EVERY SINGLE beat submission, but can’t see it after refreshing the page, eyo Kev, what’s the max. length for a post?
When i try to repost, i get a double-post notification (“you just said that,bla”)…
Okay, since my long post is not working, I see myself forced to spam this place with multiple-posts….This is what i wrote:
Okay folks,
since Esbjerg is not commenting on EVERYONE this week (at least so far) I’ll share my feelings or what I felt stood out in either a good or bad way about each track.
I respect the differences in personal taste and feel what’s right for a track, I can just try to give an honest feedback, what I feel about them, nothing more and nothing less than my personal opinion, so don’t let me discourage anyone in here, since I know we all put a lotta love in, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many folks participating every week, right?!
Long talk, short genital, so let’s get down to business:
44th Parallel - Too much attack on the kick, clap a little in the back (personally prefer them more in the foreground). When it comes to the arrangement, you could’ve done a lil more there, just looped the cutoff part..
44th Production - This joint did not load for some reason…
Beat Matixx - Kinda liked the vox-adds, but too many ‘ya’s are annoying after a while. The phone-fx during the ‘kitchentable’ break is a nice way to have the instrumental goin’ but still turning it down
Bezuoro - Like the fact you were one of the few doing any (noticeable) vocal-processing, but you ended up with too much chorus on the voice, strings-sample is dropped too randomly, off beat
Bidimridim - Nice chopped bassline, like that vibraphone-typa sound you used!
Only thing I don’t like is the high-pitched vocal-chops
Like the mix
BigFunky - Liked that u sped up the sample like me, but I just went to 85 bpm, you went all the way up to 98 bpm, which kinda takes away from the feel of the track, it looses some emotion,which your fonkay beat only partly compensates for. Makes your mix stand out though, especially when listening to them all in a row.
Blue - I personally dislike the southy 16th-note 808 hihats and drumrolls (though this is not generally a problem for me, just not on this soulful track please!)
CJ Fresh - Like the chopper-parts, but like I said earlier, I strongly dislike 16th hats on emotional tracks like this,one of the more electronic-sounding versions, which is not bad at all!
Clear Blue - Nice mrs.Carter intro, vox run a lil late plus a little diversity in the arrangement would further improve it, drums have too much room (sounds like rock)
Confidential - Like the delay on the sample-hits and your drums buddy!Your drums do a good job covering up the ones in the samples
DJ Tommy II Gunz - I just don’t think 16th-note-hats work on this track, sounds too hectic for my ears
Doente - Like some of the submissions this track gets annoying after listening for a while due to the constant repetition of the sample (yes i know, you added something every 4 bars or something)
EkZakt - Your organ chops sound vocoded, interesting! We both used delay for the outro, feeling that!
GC - Nice mix, good variety of samples, drumrolls work in this case! Like this one. Also one of the few who actually arranged the song according to the vocal (drum-pauses, instruments taken away, bla)
Getnyce - The vocals are a 1/4 bar ahead of the beat, and the end came kinda surprising
Isbjerg - Like the rhythm of your drums, the piano roll is interesting, not exactly what I’d chosen, but hey, like (almost) every addition of other instruments it adds spice! The trumpet is like me back in school – layed back and very late
why not bring it in earlier?
Icemanbeatz - Heh you like using reverse crashes/cymbals, I’m feeling that, I like that you added a bassline, but for this song it feels a little strong. Maybe up the vocal-level a bit! What i gotta point out, is that you were the only one so far using 16th-note-hats in a non-destructive way flavourwise, good choice to run ‘em at low levels, maybe up them just a tiny bit and see what happens!
Jazzmarc - Like the organ-flavour you added, and your addition of small FX that underline what Jigga’s saying, did that too
L.M.N.2. - Like the sound of your mix in terms of tonal balance, good levels and use of dynamics, one of the few here to meet high standards in mixing when it comes to things like panorama (I noticed that stereo-expander
)
LP Trax - Like the intention to approach it low, many folks made good instrumentals, but sadly some of them don’t support the vocals and the feel of the track. Especially low tracks love to be arranged a little…The chopper inserted on the strings got on my nerves though, matter of personal taste I guess…
Mastam!nd - First thing I really love about this is that…..wait, it’s mine, damn, no comment
So if you feel like givin’ it all back to me, tear this apart in your comments!
Mellow Daze - I like that you chose to use some of the musicality the original track offers, which was important for me and which -sadly- many people avoided, wheather on purpose or not.
Madscene & M.G. - The way you chopped the strings reminded me of Biggie (“…You’re nobody…til somebody…kills you…”) This (string) arrangement also pointed out to me that very string-sample’s use for another golden-era track which is of great nostalgic value for me personally, thank you for choppin’ it this way
Natown - Started off nice, but you lost me when the drumrolls and hihats came in, way too hectic for this type of song!
Nittso - Like those hat-sounds and the drum-rolls, I just can’t hear another song using that ‘really’ vocal sample. You also sped up the instrumental a bit, works well here I think
Perfect P.IIItch - Like the double-hits of your claps/snares and you used those rising-strings (at the end of the loop) to glue the different parts/patterns together just like I did. Knowing why I chose to, makes me appreciate the fact you did it even more
.
I just generally think that too many vocal-samples take away from the track (though you didn’t overdo it as much as others)
RazorSharpe - “Where’s your drums, buddy?!” I said to myself when I turned this on, but after (seemingly) half of the song, your much appreciated drums finally came in, better late than never. Personally I’d picked a differend Kick (with attack, no hi-cut) so it’d not interfer with the bassline that much. Did you narrow the stereo-spectrum? Overall nice track, I like
RodLoOs - Right in the beginning, your sample and hihats are running out of sync, that’s cool if you can cover it up, but in this case it was too obvious… I like the way you took this into a different direction than most, reminded me of busta’s ‘turn it up’
a bit. In the last third the vocals are running a little out of sync. Good overall mix
EDIT *This is what I wrote before I realized I wasn’t listening to you FINAL. You fixed most of it and the added instruments & fx are cool, too. Good job buddy*
RicH Lee - I was surprised there weren’t more versions pitching sample…panning the sanre to the left was not such a great idea, since the strings occupy this spectral spot, but the intention was to make room for the centered vox, right?
SCAM - Good breaks and chops, you did some arranging there, like that
S.T.T.R.E.S.S. - This track was too hectic for my ears, which partly resulted from the short chops and the hihats. A little more melody, and less chops would have touched me more, personally. I kinda like that ‘…time to slow it down…’ pitch-down effekt
SEC - Funny groove in this thing, but the vocals don’t work on this , even though you did alotta editing and time-streching to fix the worst parts. At ~108 bpm you sure hold the title for the fastest remix this week (how could you put these reminiscent lyrics over a beat like that?
). If I was partying right now, I’d sure get up and dance!
*Mastm!nd hands over the crazyness-trophy of the week to empty his hands, which
immediately start fumbling around searching for a drink within reach*
Tenth - Nice drums, this golden-era-child is feelin’ ya! Nice vinyl-stop end
That Swedish Guy - Too much chopping, but nice bassline, snare a lil soft
TicToc - Too many vocal-cuts, combined with the hats it’s too hectic for me. Sadly the vocals are off too…
Tony Blitz - A little neptune-esque drum-approach (‘hectic’ kick, and different claps, bla) cowbell/ride could have popped up earlier not just at the end, along with a little variety in the arrangment. The vocals seem off a bit…
Tokyo Cigar - I liked the musicality of this, which was kinda rare, in a week with more passionate choppers than at a Harley-meeting ^^ and flooded with (partly annoying) vocal-samples! Good job!
Vol - Good fx, rimshot on each count is too much for me on this, but the groove is nice! One of the better ones when it comes to mixing and arranging
Phew, that’s it, glad there weren’t more entries this week, even if I had to keep it short on most comments, I hope the warm feeling of being (fully) heard and noticed makes
a difference! The overall bar was slowly but steadily raised over the past weeks, which makes me look forward to the grand finale!
Now, since I went by Esbjergs example to comment on everyone, maybe you guys can sacrifice a little of your precious time and listen and comment on others (and me!) too!
Just one more thing: Anybody noticed the audible use of autotune on the acapella?
(e.g. 1st Verse : “…changed me, had me skipping school…”) Gave me a goog laugh,
Death-Of-Autotune, baby!
Ya’ll take care, it was a pleasure to listen to and comment on your work for the last 2.5 hours, I hope nobody feels offended by me! Hear ya’ll next week!
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