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via this page! Many thanks to
Seedy for hosting the mixes and the inserts, additional hugs to
Ant Lady
for designing the CD covers and labels.
**NOTE** There are now no individual downloads. The links below will take you to a page
on antfan.com where you can download all available mixes for this volume.
A simple registration is required. It is quick and painless.
Click on the titles below for detailed info.
1. Kiss The Drummer (TFF Can FTFO Remix)
2. Man Called Marco (Black Leather Remix)
3. Golden Adam Birthday Mix
4. The Idea (Holy Trinity Remix)
5. Dog Beat Dog
6. Don't Let The Man Get You Down (Carty Remix)
7. Just Lost At The Top
1. ADAM ANT - KISS THE DRUMMER (TFF Can FTFO Remix)
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Tom Jones & The Art Of Noise - Kiss (Art Of remix) - China
Adam Ant – Kiss The Drummer (12” version) - CBS/Sony
Adam And The Ants – Killer In The Home (remastered) - Sony
Tears For Fears – Shout (US Remix) -
Nirvana – Scentless Apprentice (drums only) -
Chad Jackson – Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked) (sample)
Adam And The Ants – Bathroom Function (Decca demo)
Adam And The Ants – Dog Eat Dog (drums only)
Adam Ant – Goody Two Shoes (single version drums only)
When Steve Ant first suggested 'Kiss The Drummer' for a remix to
me, I thought, "oh no! I hate that damn tune!" At the time I was busy with other stuff. It was the perfect excuse. Steve suggested that 'Shout' by Tears For Fears may sound great with it.
I suggested that HE try them together (another great excuse not to touch it!)
Later, Steve sends me his first attempts and ideas. They weren't that bad (yes,
I was surprised), and continued to talk about other ideas for it...suggesting it as a surprise for his beloved Aimee.
I eventually started to play around with it and could see possibilities with Steve's ideas. TFF's vocals mixed with the 'KTD' guitars was perfect. The addition of the Nirvana drums was a headache at first, as real drummers NEVER keep true time, so
I had to re-align all the beats individually in the loop. Steve suggested adding more 'Miss Fierce' samples to the 'Kiss The Drummer' section.
Demo 2 sees samples from Tom Jones, Goody Two Shoes,
Killer In The Home, Dog Eat Dog, and an edited sample from the Double Trouble DJ's (also used by Beats International). The guitar strum from 'Killer In The Home" was added but it was in the wrong key, so
I had to adjust it. With 'drums' being the running theme, the 'Killer In The Home' ones were included.
In demo 3 the TFF vocals' key changed at one point, to match the 'KTD' key change, but Steve didn't like it. Demo 4 tackles it from another angle, introducing Dolly the sheep and more "drum" samples, bringing the drumming climax towards the end (which his Lordship requested). Demo 5 includes a 'Bathroom Function' giggle and the drum loop from Chad Jackson's 'Hear The Drummer Get Wicked'. This was only used in this demo.
Demo 6 was fine tuning the samples whilst still hunting for a 'Hear The Drummer Get Wicked' vocal that was
useable! It was found and added to demo 7 (the final mix). Naming the mix was quite simple as "TFF" and Steve's catch phrase (FTFO) matches perfectly. On hearing the final mix, Steve had mentioned the key change again, but Kiss The Drummer changes key and the only way to avoid a key clash was to finely retune them at that section of the mix. (So Steve can FTFO!!).
I never rated 'Kiss The Drummer' as a song. But working on it (coupled with input from Steve, Ant Lady and Tex) has revived
my interest in the song.
Thank you Steve. All the best to you and your future wife, Aimee.
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2. MANTRA 2 - MAN CALLED MARCO (Leather Glove Remix)
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Mantra 2 - Man Called Marco (This Is Called Fantasy CD) - Alexa
Adam Ant - Bright Lights Black Leather (Manners & Physique CD) - MCA
Adam Ant - Man Called Marco (Friend Or Foe CD) - Sony
Adam Ant - Hello, I Love You (Friend Or Foe CD) - Sony
To the best of my knowledge, the song that holds the record for including the longest (uninterrupted) sample of another tune, goes to "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" by N-Trance. Rod Stewart gave them full permission to use the sample and this fact was reported at the time of it's release. So when
Catboy from Mantra 2 announced that they had recorded a cover of "Man Called Marco" featuring the whole song sampled, this had to be heard to be believed. Alas, it is true. Mantra 2 now hold that record. (In fact the whole song isn't sampled, as the ending is omitted.)
Mantra 2's lead singer, Catboy, sings vocals over this previously instrumental track (although Marco talks and Adam sings backing vocals on it). When the
possibilities of a Carty remix of this track were being discussed, I was offered the acapella and backing track recordings. A remix producer's wet dream come true. Working with the original recordings in this way opens up a huge number of
possibilities in how to approach the remix. My previous production "Panzer Mädchen" was also produced in this way.
This remix started of quite different to what you hear now. The finished mix is actually demo #10, which is more than the usual 6 or 7 demos done to complete a mix. Using "Hello, I Love You" with "Man Called Marco" seemed a natural choice as
I had mixed these two tunes together as part of the
Friend Or Foe Full Album Megamix on
Carty Mixes Vol 4. Earlier demos had seen drums sampled from K7's "Come Baby Come" and Agent Provocateur's "Kicked" (an old Kevin Mooney band).
I had also added my own
bass line at one point, which was based upon the one used in "Jingo" by Candido/Jellybean. This led to the track's tempo being increased to a much pacier rhythm. A quick glance at
my Ant BPM's page indicated which other tunes were around the same tempo. "Bright Lights Black Leather" seemed a good option as no tracks from "Manners & Physique" have ever been used in the Carty Mixes. To make things seem even more perfect, they were in the same key!
As this new approach was beginning to take shape, input from
Ant Lady proved essential to the finished product. (The "black leather"
vocal sample was her idea, for example.)
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3. ADAM ANT - GOLDEN ADAM BIRTHDAY MIX
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Soft Cell - Tainted Love (12") -
Spandau Ballet - Gold (12") -
Adam And The Ants - Stand & Deliver (7") - Sony
Adam And The Ants - Press Darlings (B-Side Babies 2 CD) - Bootleg
Adam And The Ants - A.N.T.S. (AntBox CD) - Sony
Adam And The Ants - Zerøx (Dirk 2004 CD) - Sony
Adam Ant - Gotta Be A Sin (Wonderful CD) - EMI
Adam Ant - Saigon (AntBox CD) - Sony
Adam And The Ants - Catholic Day (Dirk 2004 CD) - Sony
Adam Ant - B-Side Babies (B-Side Babies CD) - Legacy
Adam And The Ants - Cartrouble (7") - Sony
An early incarnation of this mix began when I started on re-working my
Resurrection Remix of Stand & Deliver. It featured a demo of the verses over the top of
Gold by Spandau Ballet. Seeing as it was Adam's 50th birthday on November 3rd 2004, it was decided to keep the "Gold" sample for
the new mix. (That Resurrection Remix can be found on
Carty Mixes Volume 7.)
The initial idea was to do a simple remix of "Stand & Deliver" with "Gold" for Adam's birthday, but having just completed a remix of that song a new approach was needed.
Tainted Love had been used by me to mix with my old Stand & Deliver remix in the clubs, so that seemed a good basis to use for the rhythm. As the mix progressed, it seemed logical to make it a 'birthday megamix' using Adam's songs around the same tempo, but covering all of his career. A quick glance at the
Ant BPM page provided a quick list of possible tunes for inclusion. But before that, the Spandau Ballet track had to be adjusted to match the key of
Stand & Deliver, and it was decided to edit the verses together climaxing into the chorus before heading into
Press Darlings and A.N.T.S..
It's here that the mix gets interesting. A.N.T.S. uses the guitar riff from
Zerøx, so it was obvious to follow on with that. Gotta Be A Sin has always been a floor filler at the annual conventions, but it's in a different key to
Zerøx. That's why you can hear those early guitars go up through the notes as it matches those of
Gotta Be A Sin. That song itself had to drop down a few notes at the end to match that of
Saigon. Mixing into Catholic Day was tough though. Its guitars during the intro are 6 bars long, whereas
Saigon's are only the regular four. (Plus it was in a different key!). It was decided to play 4 bars of
Saigon and add the last 2 bars of Catholic Day on the end, then retune the sample to make the segue smooth. This ended up as
my favourite section of the whole mix. A simple mix into B-Side Babies proved effective as did ending the marathon with the song that
I had always avoided remixing, the sacred Cartrouble.
The bongos from Spandau's "Gold" were used over the mix sections as were the "boing" sounds from "Tainted Love" to give the mix a constant feel to it, proving very popular on the
dance floor at the 2004 Adam & The Ants Convention.
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4. ADAM AND THE ANTS - THE IDEA (Holy Trinity Remix)
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Adam And The Ants – The Idea (remastered) - Sony
Adam And The Ants - Zerøx (remastered) - Sony
Donna Summer - I Feel Love (12")
Piano solo - Holy Holy Holy (hymn)
Female Choir - Holy Holy Holy (hymn)
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5. THE ANTS OF NOISE - DOG BEAT DOG (Carty Mix)
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The Art Of Noise – Close (To The Edit) (LP) - ZTT
Adam And The Ants - Dog Eat Dog (LP) - Sony
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6. FATBOY SLIM - DON'T LET THE MAN GET YOU DOWN (Carty Remix)
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Fatboy Slim – Don't Let The Man Get You Down (samples) - Skint Records
Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier (remastered) - Sony
Adam And The Ants - 'Antmusic' (remastered) - Sony
Adam Ant - Navel To Neck (LP) - Sony
In November 2004, BBC OneMusic ran a competition in conjunction with Fatboy Slim to remix the opening track from his latest album Palookaville. The track is called
Don't Let The Man Get You Down and the winning remix was to appear on the b-side of the single.
A huge amount of entries were expected due to the fact of the competition's extensive publicity, plus the fact the all the necessary samples were available to download on the BBC's website. Entries had been flooding in from all genres of remixers, from amateurs to the more serious producers.
I downloaded all the required ingredients and started working on a mix without listening to the original. From the loops supplied by Fatboy Slim, the BPM was calculated to be almost exactly half that of
'Antmusic', King Of The Wild Frontier and Navel To Neck. Seeing as
I was planning to re-do my Navel To Neck remix, I decided to give the remix more of an Ant flavour. Everything seemed to falling into place until
I gave the original album track a listen. The
bass line and some of the samples were arranged slightly differently in the loops, but they seemed to work so why change them?
I added a little nod back to the old Navel To Neck remix by including the saucy samples,
"I wanna kiss you down below"
A few demos and many plays later the mix is completed. Its heavy Ant influences also see the track added to the
Carty Mixes Volume 6 compilation. An edited Radio Mix was also produced to include on the CD to be submitted for the competition.
The edit is now available on my WTF Volume 2
compilation. As you can see from the yellow cover above, it's half the length of the full remix, making a very compact version including all the best bits of the track. This
was exclusive to the competition CD with the aim of making the judging a little easier. (Imagine listening to thousands of entries of remixes of the same tune, the majority of which take longer than 60 seconds to get really started).
The competition closing date was December 1st 2004 with the winner being selected on December 17th 2004. The chances of winning
were incredibly slim (no pun intended), but a huge amount of enjoyment was had working with this remix. It is worth noting however that after the remix was finished Monk (who contributes to this site's Ant Gigs pages) announced that Norman Cook (A.K.A. Fatboy Slim) used to be an Adam And The Ants fan and even interviewed Adam for his own fanzine Peroxide! Well let's hope Mr Cook gets dragged back to his Ant roots with this entry!
(He wasn't) Many thanks to
Seedy for putting the competition CD package together and mailing it off (also for hosting the mix). Additional hugs to
Ant Lady for designing the
CD cover and the animated South Park image above. Extra thanks to Norman Cook for giving
me the opportunity to work with his material for this project.
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7. A&A vs EMINEM - JUST LOST AT THE TOP (Carty Mix)
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Adam Ant – Room At The Top (Extended) (intro only) - MCA
Eminem - Just Lose It (acapella) - y
Adam Ant - Room At The Top (LP) - MCA
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