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R O S S R O B E R T S O N > > we will rock you (the christmas mixes)
Specific Track Info
Name: We Will Rock You (Christmas Mix)
Release date: 6 December 1998
Length: 4 min 57 sec (original version) 4 min 10 sec (radio version)
Format: VQF
Mixer's Comments
I was a radio student at the time and one day while skiving off in the edit
channel (production room) and listening to most of the production music CDs,
I read on one CD "Jingle Bells in the style of 70's Rock". As I put it on,
the hairs on my back stood up as it sounded EXACTLY like We Will Rock You...
well I simply had to do a flossmix using this material, so when nobody was
looking I made a copy of the CD and went home to begin an epic mixing
session!
I used the 1977 BBC Version of WWRY, at the same time cleaning and enhancing
the audio quality of the recording as I only had a poor quality bootleg
copy, and mixing the Jingle Bells bits seamlessly into the "slow" part of
the song. The Jingle Bells parts didn't have the "stomp-stomp-clap", just
drums so I had to individually add each "stomp-stomp-clap" section into the
J.B. bits. And adjust the tempo of the J.B. to match the stomp-stomp-claps"
too! It took for ever to do but I think the overall mix was worth the hours
of slogging over it! :-)
The "radio version" simply has one of the verses of the fast bit of WWRY
edited out. It was played on the college radio shows a few times, hence the
need for a slightly shorter version.
I actually did another version (+ radio edit) of this mix using a totally
different arrangement of the J.B. and WWRY. It was slightly longer at 5:10
but I prefer the 4:57 arrangement, so you could say that this other one is a
rare alternate version that might one day be released when Greg Brooks gets
around to doing the box set for "The Floss Mixes Anthology"!!! :-)
go back...
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