Archive for 'Studio Sessions'
Nightclubbin’ with Grace Jones
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
It was ten years ago in 1999 that I remixed Grace Jones’ seminal ‘Pull Up To The Bumper’ - a track with more sexual innuendos than you could shake a stick at. This post is a quick rewind on that and also to finally make public a short but very sassy unreleased Dakeyne remix of [...]
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Tainted Love - Rebuilding a Classic
Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
W-a-a-a-a-y back in 1981, once a week, I used to gather up a group of friends for a trip to Leeds, and that amazing club ‘The Warehouse’. As Disco gracefully bowed out the exit door, a whole new musical sub-culture emerged from its ashes, with a sprinkling of post-punk ‘n Bowie thrown in: Enter the [...]
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Getting ‘Low’ with Flo Rida
Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
One of the biggest R&B crossover records of 2008 was of course Flo Rida’s now classic, ‘Low’. To the best of my knowledge then and still now, there were never any officially released House mixes available. Sure, there were plenty of YouTube remix attempts, ranging from ok to plain horrendous, but nothing I’d feel happy [...]
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Anatomy of a Remix
Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
A few years ago I started doing music technology lectures for HE and FE students, where one of my most popular sessions was, ‘The Anatomy of a Remix’. During these sessions I would start with a blank Logic 8 arrange page, and take the students (over a two hour period) through the significant stages of [...]
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Tinman ‘18 Strings’ - The True Story
Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
In 1993, I created a record that started life as an underground club anthem, and eventually crossed over into the mainstream pop charts. This track was my career peak, my highest achievement, the laurel I never actually rested on.. It was called ‘Eighteen Strings’, the band/pseudonym, was Tinman! At the time of its high level [...]
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U2 Unreleased Megamix
Posted on 09. Jun, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
Back in the late 80’s, I did a U2 megamix for DJ subscription service, DMC. This mix was released on vinyl and CD in the public domain. What is not ‘out there’ in the physical and internet world is my original version of this mix. This version was created using much more limited technology than [...]
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The DMC ‘Epic’s - Sigue Sigue Sputmix
Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
Known to most as the DMC Epic’s, they were (and not my words) ‘infamous & iconic’ works. One in particular has followed me around through the years. As the Royal Ruler, Tony Prince always reminds any audience I was put in front of, I did, amongst others, the one called ‘Sigue Sigue Sputmix’.
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Archiving Vinyl
Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
I’m often asked what’s the best method for transferring vinyl and archiving to digital formats. This can be achieved at the lower budget scale by buying one of the numerous USB turntables that come with a basic software recording/editing solution for under €100. For me, I take advantage of my studio’s legacy and current gear. [...]
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Akai and Me
Posted on 29. May, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
For many years I had a love affair with one manufacturer and a series of ever evolving machines. Akai: and the S- Series hardware rack samplers. I used to protect my collection of sample, loop and program laden floppy discs as if I was guarding Her Majesty’s crown jewels . Throughout the late 80’s [...]
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Moyles V. Westwood - Traktor and Logic Into Play
Posted on 28. May, 2009 by Paul Dakeyne.
Although having blogged in detail on each step of this particular story over at DV’s Musical Notes, I thought I’d get my involvement with the whole Moyles Vs. Westwood Soundclash down here in one post. A few weeks ago, Moylesey was chatting about
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Paul Dakeyne
Not wanting to copy and paste my usual 'official biog' dotted around the web, for my own website, I thought I'd give an insight on the more personal story of the birth of my DJ and production career.
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Paul Dakeyne: Good to hear from you too Mike.. You have my mobil...
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david grafton: The original U2 is very special........and the bes...
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ken grattan: please,please please send me all your back catalog...
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Scott Burns: Hi paul, scott here again, i am doing a remix of d...