OK, so a while ago there was a track floating around these here series of tubes, which featured a solo vocal from Runnin With The Devil, the original track, just DLR, doing what he does best. Its truly fantastic, you can just feel the high kicks coming through, its amazing. On a previously mentioned note, I got a bunch of multitrack sessions a while back from classic songs. Bohemian Rhapsody, Sgt Pepper, and finally Whats Going On, by the legendary Marvin Gaye. These elements remained unrelated…until this morning
On my way into work, I got an idea. Whats going on is fairly close in tempo to Runnin With The Devil. What if someone were to combine the 2, creating an unholy union not seen since the original combination of Hall and Oates. So, I arrived at 9:30, and immediately got to work. Right away…you could feel it. I dont want to overhype it…but it was magic. Pure Fucking Magic. Its like DLR walked into Motown, did a high kick, gave everyone in the room a High Five, got in a kyak, paddled down the halway to the studio where Marvin was recording, stepped up to the mic, and fucking killed it in one take. After that, he left with 6 beautiful women on each arm, got into a stretched limo with a pool on top, and rode off into the sunset.
The remix process itself was not too difficult. Some time compression was necessary to speed up a few lines, and lots of movement of sections, but there was no pitch shifting. The songs are oddly similar in key. By far my favorite section is the Scat after the choruses. Its as if they were cosmically pre aligned to meet in the distant future.
See for yourself, please spread it round the interwebs