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Moonlight- Heads Turning (UK rap remix) **EXPLICIT LYRICS**

Just a little remix I did using a riff from an idea by Danny Houston.
Soon as I heard the melody, I had a strange idea of putting some UK rap behind it, but not mainstream, such as Dizzy or Tinie. And found this bruiser online. Originally a grime tune, I mellowed it out a bit with some guitar and soft detuned chords. It originally went 75bpm and I sped it up to 100 except for the chorus, which I stretched to 50.
Big thanks to Danny for letting me use the riff.
Hope you enjoy. All comments are welcome

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Don't know the original and

Don't know the original and what was already there and what was added...but this 12string is caustic and it's beautiful. And I think I heared some rubberband actions in there. I guess you did a great job again ;)

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Loving this track!

Loving this track!

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Cheers guys. The original is

Cheers guys. The original is completely different
Very dirty and grimey sounding. The guitar was actually a melody from a wip that danny sent me but I remodeled it as a guitar. The chorus is a pain in the ass. No matter how I worked it, it sounded out of tune, but only the stretched version. Normal speed sounded fine.
Thanks for the feedback

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IgzrzmNc_44
The original. I'm biased but I think my remix is better haha

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Real nice track AB, really

Real nice track AB, really like the way you juxatoposed those different elements, that's a real talent to know what's gonna work, and then making it work, hats off, oh love that little bend on the note in that melody, lifts it...very nice

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Nice one dude ;) Love the

Nice one dude ;) Love the effects on the male vocal

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Thank you guys. The acapella

Thank you guys. The acapella already pitched down a couple times anyway. I just added more.
The juxtapodoodaahed bit was fluke. I still have a glitch where sometimes in a loop, the sounds all sound at once. It happened at that point and I liked it so elaborated. Happy accident lol

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Yea..I know that glitch. It's

Yea..I know that glitch. It's when long release notes are at the end of a loop.

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That's the one. My work

That's the one. My work around was to add a bar of nothing, but the weird thing with this glitch was that it triggered the bass, which didn't start til the new segment. Wasn't even in the looped section

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It's giving us nice new ideas

It's giving us nice new ideas :D

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Ouch, this is fantastic.

Ouch, this is fantastic.

Check out my new track.

https://youtu.be/PflagFexu5g

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Cheers dude

Cheers dude

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Yeah, indeed it's better than

Yeah, indeed it's better than the original in my ears though I don't really love mainstream rap :)  The fem vocals sound different key in your vesion, but I think it gives some nice natural effect, like the guy (you in this case) just took some random non-singing chicks from the street ;)

Hats off, nigga ;)

8.5/10 

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Cheers dude. Not intended at

Cheers dude. Not intended at all lol. I tried fine tuning her, but other parts sounded off. Weirdly, it's kinda ok when it isn't stretched, so wondering whether auto tune was put on the original at some point,

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Any chance to download it

Any chance to download it somehow? I cannot find it on your Dropbox. Would be nice to include it in my limited songs library, and hear it on my tuned-4-mobile special earphones smiley It's quite unique with this detuned vocal parts, and I need to hear it on my reference soundkit smiley

By the way - you've already got a material for mini-album dude, why not to compose and share it yes

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@dj szmata czasu I'm the

@dj szmata czasu I'm the opposite of you....too many songs in my music collection.

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I'm a "quality over quantity"

I'm a "quality over quantity" guy wink My library is about just 2500 tunes big, all of them in the best mp3 quality, and 85% of this are the albums that I've bought on CD's or casettes (mainly old metal and techno), and downloaded them in digital form, so you can consider me a pirate if you are strict mo-fosmiley Because I never pay twice for the same shitdevil

The rest of tunes are just the mix of the best single tunes of all styles, including some of Caustic tunes. And I have to beg Alexei now to let me include his newest tune in my lib wink

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@szmata, sure, I will mail

@szmata, sure, I will mail you the ogg file. You asked for Seducer too on soundcloud, but never sure my replies go thru or not. I replied that for Seducer, the caustic file is posted with the tune, so technically, it's available for widespread download, with the added benefit of altering it to ones own taste. I think since May, I've made about thirty songs. Had to take some down to make room on soundcloud lol.
I use to have thousands of tunes on my iPod. Last count before my flat got robbed, I had enough music to play constantly for over three months without repeating a single track. Overkill. I couldn't decide what I wanted to hear, so always had it on shuffle, but then spent more time skipping to get to a preferred song than actually listening to tunes lol

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The same, my flat in London

The same, my flat in London got robbed from 2 laptops, wtf is wrong with London? wink. And the same with skipping music on shuffle - I rarely can hit the tune I really wanna listen to, so I'm mostly skipping than listening , althought I've got just 2500 of them smiley

I'm waiting for the .ogg mate, cannot wait to hear it at 120 decibels with full bass enabledcool

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@szmata my personal mp3

@szmata my personal mp3 collection in my phone is about 900+ but my parents CD and vinyl collection are the most. Around 1000+ Cd's and 200+ vinyl records. (They used to work in a record store). Sometimes I find really cool tunes that I didn't know I had!

Check out mah soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/josh-oelal

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Lucky you, Josh  My parents

Lucky you, Josh smiley My parents sold all the vinyls we've had (100+) many years ago, some of them really rare sad Duran Duran, The Beatles, and even Modern Talking was there haha wink All gone

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That's what nearly happened

That's what nearly happened to my parent's CD collection .thank god they saved half of it. BTW the vinyl includes everything from UNKLE to FSOL etc. Pretty interesting stuff. Then you find the really odd stuff in there...(diamanda galas)

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@alexei I arrange my tracks

@alexei I arrange my tracks according to moods so I could just randomly shuffle (dark,upbeat etc.)

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That 12strings sound great! I

That 12strings sound great! I love the glide effect;)
Nice fx as well as for the riff...and what can I say about the mastering? Excellent!!
A bit dirty too but hey...we're mature enough...I think? Lol
Great job dude getting better and better!;)

♬​ Lu!G

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Cheers muchly lifeup. Not

Cheers muchly lifeup. Not sure whether you mean the pitch slide on the steel guitar or the fret slide, but thank you. And always appreciate feedback on mastering. Trying to branch out and not stick to one style cos I think that's the best way to keep learning.

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Can i have this too as OGG

Can i have this too as OGG please? Today i remembered this great track, and i browse through all forum threads until i found it. This is 4-th time replay. :-)

Check out my new track.

https://youtu.be/PflagFexu5g

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I wonder what happened to

I wonder what happened to Alexei? Hes been absent for some time now...

♬​ Lu!G

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@LifeUp, yeah think he's got

@LifeUp, yeah think he's got some stuff going on right now, but sure he will be back...

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Boo!!!

Boo!!!
Still here lol. As wellsley said, I am working thru some personal stuff right now so everything else is on the back seat but I will be back.
Jankovic, I will fish out the ogg file for you. Email me so I have ur email and I will send it to u. Thanks for the comments. So nice when people revisit a tune after some time