Laroye

What a great way to start my NFT adventure by joining Mark de Clive - Lowe's Web 3 community! The whole process was incredible as Mark created an amazing system to navigate through, using some new tools and platforms embracing the web3 technologie.
We've been offered to choose and remix a track from his sublime Midnight Snacks collection. 

I usually have 3 main ways of reworking a track :
1- Keeping the the original song idea / structure and give it a new production approach adding new drums and synths arrangements,
2- Flipping the track into something completely different using a tiny fraction of the track.
3- looping some parts of the original stems and reshaping the chords and harmony sequence using a sampling technique.
For crush velvet I have chosen the 3rd approach by looping and cropping elements inside the bridge (Rhodes, synth, bass, organ and strings) to create a new harmonic
movement.
I also messed around the drum loop all along the track changing its length and having different starts, then I added live congas for the warmness of a human feel.
I Dropped some Prophet 5 stabs and Leads to elevate the cosmic side of the tune and I finally recorded that vocoder melody inspired by the MAW classic vocal from the
1995 - Ruffneck "everybody be somebody"
The first version was quite long. around 7 min, but I decided to go to a "less is more" edit and really condensed the track into an enjoyable listening format !
It was a great experience to have access to Mark' sounds and textures and it was really challenging to find the way turn his wonderfull music into an a new creation that could match the level of the original!

This remix was produced as part of the first Mashibeats remix contest and selected to be minted through community voting.
Primary collectors will also receive the ltd edition remixes color vinyl EP including this remix - estimated delivery late October 2022.

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Mark de Clive - Lowe _ Crush Velvet ( Laroye Remix )

Respected French DJ and producer, Thomas Arroyo aka Laroye moved to the UK in 2015, drawn by the boundary pushing dance and electronic music scenes here. Laroye has released music exploring a variety of different genres from broken beat on the early days of Faces Records and MCDE, through funk and boogie on Midnight Riot, Glitterbox and beyond.
As a multi instrumentalist and studio stakhanovist Laroye is offering a total new experience in spiritual house. Fusioning heavy bass, latin rythms, electronic gadgetery and slide guitar. It's a journey within different worlds, traveling through cosmic afrobeats, Soulful deep techno & future jazz ..Playing on stage alongside guest vocalists and musicians to provide a full & lively experience.
In a more ambient field Tom Laroye Experiment, explores textures & expands time and space, by programming cinematic modular sounds and playing floating lapsteel & slide guitar melodies to create transcending soundscapes.