Comments on: Fitting Tributes: Billie Jean, NYC Saturday, with Claude VonStroke

By: DJ Tree

DJ Tree — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:03:55 +0000

As peter said it was an edit not a remix.

By: benny blanco®

benny blanco® — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:46:28 +0000

Yea, i agree with the Fractal, I cannot hear much of any editing going on in that clip. I think I heard maybe 2 splices.

Leave the edits to the disco guys. They do a lot more than what was displayed here.

Nevertheless, the original 4 bar groove of Billie Jean with that bassline and crisp drums is unstoppable head boppin’ funkiness bliss.

By: Fractal

Fractal — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:47:04 +0000

well….

Nothing re-worked in this “remix”

Everybody can do this, put the Mp3 on Ableton Live…

Seriously…if one day i make this…i shot myself…

By: art

art — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:17:04 +0000

About a year ago I read an interview with (I think it was…) Gui Boratto where he said his peak of the gig, dancefloor destroying secret trick was to layer 4 bars of Billy Jean under one of his songs. When everybody in the club had gotten to the point where they were going totally crazy with energy and there was nowhere left to go, he would turn it up to 11 and drop that in underneath and then the whole place would just freaking explode.

It is cool to see the crowd’s reaction in that clip, but you have to think that part of it is everyone remembering Michael and already being pretty emotional about it.

Gui’s use of the track was out of nowhere, with MJ being considered (sadly) a mostly a washed up punchline at that time in the popular view… and just a snippet of that track, with zero context, could still absolutely wreck a dancefloor.

RIP.

By: Jammo

Jammo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:29:05 +0000

That is amazing. Big big respect CVS for putting that together, only wish I had been there to hear it in person.

By: Justin Reed

Justin Reed — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:56:01 +0000

that edit is much faster then the original…time stretched….you can hear the warble in some of the vocals. also he has extended the breaks. Nice. Love how CVS mixes different styles with his SF signature sounds.

I had a chance to mix “don’t stop till you get enough”, “Smooth Criminal” and “wanna be startin somethin” into a house set over the weekend. Timeless classics for me.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:43:32 +0000

Yeah, it IS basically the studio track — it’s just an edit. Listen closely, though, and he’s beefed up the beats. It’s like a half-remix. ;) But it worked.

By: M.

M. — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:28:47 +0000

Very nice, looks like it was wild. Am I crazy, or… that sounds alot like the basic studio track.

By: peter

peter — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:55:49 +0000

Either that girl is having the best time of her life, or is being murdered.