Re-edits: Jefferson Starship - Miracles (Sunshine Jones Re-edit)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Jefferson Starship - Miracles (Sunshine Jones Re-edit)

The first time I heard this melody, was on De La Souls "I am I Be" off their 1993 "Buhloone Mindstate" and it's been haunting me since. Actually, back then I already had the original "Miracles " by Jefferson Starship off their Red Octopus album, but it was not until this re-edit came out I went back and listened to the original from beginning to end.
A beautiful original, but this re-edit does legitimate the re-edit genre. Here, the original is updated with respect.
Loop, dubs, delays and filtering - the works. The vocals are kept to a minimum just popping up a few times as forgotten memories of an echoing distant. Added snare and kick put it in a frame. Love it!

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About this blog

This blog is dedicated to music re-edits.
No remixes. Just re-edits.
Like Eddie Murphy, I got some rules when I throw down:

Re-edits can only contain elements from the original recording.
No new melody or elements must be added, e.g. extra instruments or vocals. That would make it a remix.
Then again: a little kick and a snare to mark things up never hurt nobody.
It's OK to fade, reverse, cut, loop and add delay/reverb/phase fx etc. to the mix.
It's OK to included any version available of the recording: extended, dub, a capella, instrumental, perc-apella, live etc. as long as it is the same artist.
The re-edit must work better than the original. Else it's pointless, Tess!

Feel free to submit your re-edit to the Soundcloud group at the top. If I like, I'll post it here.

Note: Any mp3s are for listening purpose only. If you DL, please delete afterwards and go buy the record.

Re-edits history

Re-edits (or later extended versions) are altered versions of an existing song with repeated and reordered arrangement.

The re-edit was born because pre-disco DJs like Francis Grasso and Walter Gibbons and music aficionado Tom Moulton saw the advantages of longer versions; dancing people are responding to specific instrumental parts of the song (often a drumbreak or breakdown) and they want to stay in the groove for longer than just the usual 3:20 the single could provide.

At first they mixed two identical records on the spot, but later they would use reel-to-reel and cassettes. Eventually, when the record companies saw the sales potential, the DJs took it from the booth to the studio. Since, the art of re-editing has been refined by people like Danny Krivit, Tom Moulton, Walter Gibbons, Yam Who?, Todd Terje Dimitri from Paris and Pilooski.

(Wiki about re-edits)

(Brewster & Frank Broughton: "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The history of the disc jockey", Headline 1999)