If I remember right, this was one of my first completed tracks using Cubase. Before that I had pretty much used Reason for everything, but was looking to learn something new about music production so I soldiered on in the face of confusion and frustration. Uphill. Both ways. Errr, something like that.

“Last Night” started with a pad sound that I rather liked and just kind of expanded from there. This seems to be one of the favourites among people who have given me feedback on my tracks. I just might have to agree. It’s definitely got a more subtle chilled vibe to it than some of my dancier stuff. And that’s . . . ok.

Ah, Blu Cantrell. What’s not to like? When I heard the original Dr. Dre production of this track, I instantly fell in love with it. After a bit of searching, I found myself an acapella and went to work on it re-mixing it TekMonki stylee. Bo!

In retrospect it’s not one of my best remixes, and listening to it now there’s things I would’ve done differently, but it is what it is and you have to call it “done” some time and overall it’s received a pretty good response. Have a listen for yourself.

If you don’t know, “Frou Frou” is Imogen Heap and Guy Sigsworth. I dont know much about Imogen, but that lovely luscious voice says volumes. Guy is quite well known as a behind-the-scenes kinda . . .guy . . . (sorry, couldn’t help it) who’s worked with everyone from Madonna to Bjork to Bebel Gilberto to . . Britney Spears. Yes, even Britney. Collectively, as Frou Frou, they’ve put out some great electronic pop songs. I highly recommend them. You can check them out here.

This track was up on acidplanet as a remix contest. Initially I had planned on entering it, but I then decided to move cross country so I missed the deadline by several months. Oops. This has to be one of my favourite remixes of mine. Such a beautiful track in it’s own right, but I think I did it some justice in my own TekMonki style all the same. Check it..

I really loved Garbage’s first two albums. This one was off the third and honestly I wasn’t really feeling it very much when I heard it. At the time I was looking around for a project and came across yet another remix contest featuring this track. Again, I wasn’t really into it and I find it hard to remix a song that I don’t really feel I can do much with, but I pressed on all the same.

I forget if I actually entered this in the contest, or I had given up on them by that point, but I think it turned out quite good. Looking back, it needs to be remastered as the levels are a tad much in places, but overall I’m pretty proud of this remix in the way that I brought an 80’s electro-esque vibe to it.

Enjoy.

Though it’s the first on the list, this isn’t my first ever track. I have several that may never see the proper light of day as they probably just shouldn’t. This is the first one I was really proud to put my name on though. At the time I wrote it I was much more into the mellow downtempo vibe of things and it was some lazy weekend in the studio just mucking about.

And this is what ended up coming out.