Too much hypnosis

A while back the guys behind Kaiti Kink Ensemble asked us to remix tracks from their album "Under the Iron Sky". It took me a while to get my hands on this but I finally got other things out of the way. From the album I chose a track called "Too Much Energy" which is a pretty much an in your face electronic piece. You might want to give the original track a listen as well. Kaiti Kink Ensemble "Too much energy"

I decided to go in a totally different direction. Mysterious instead of blasting it at you. Ethnic instead of electronic. Laid back instead of pumping and raw.

I chose to base the remix on the hypnotic beating of a witch drum doubled by a normal frame drum. They beat a constant beat that makes up this tracks back bone.On top of them I layered a chilled jazz beat and and effected version of the original drum track. These loop on and on as I was going for a structure that is supposed to hypnotize you. So repetition, repetition and repetition.

I did the same thing with the lyrics. I chose a few passages that would repeat and repeat creating a sort of a chant with the various repetition coming in with different kinds of effect layers. An added vocal was a Tibetan monk singing. It gives the whole track a more mysterious quality.

For the actual instruments I chose an ivory flute and solo strings. They form the melodic core of the track. Solo cello leads the instrument section and the rest back it up with staccato lines. Though in the middle there's a bit where the flute and cello go on an acid trip and just swing away.

I am quite happy with the way this remix turned out. So give it a listen, or two:

Too Much Hypnosis (Kaiti Kink Ensemble - Too Much Energy Remix)