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Welcome! - Updated
19/11/2006
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It's a Beautiful Day (Remix) aka
It's a Beautiful Day (Techno Mix) aka Track 13 (Floss Mix) >>
You can download the mix that is being used on the tour
here and you can grab the original mix
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Clicking the badge above will take you to my bebo profile, which is
the webpage I update most. Feel free to leave me a message!
Some answers to some emails that I received. Not really
applicable to be put in the FAQ but of note to be put on the site
somewhere.
Jeroen from The Netherlands recently
asked about what I thought of the new DVD. Before it was released, I did
download a couple of audience shot videos of gigs. One was even a
multicamera shoot but it was more a case of whoever edited it seeing how
many different wipes on Adobe Premier he could cram in!
So in comparison, its obviously light years ahead of that and nearly
every other offical release when I have my
Queen fan hat on but I see numerous annoyances when I have my video
producer hat on. I won't go into detail but my main gripe is that there
are waaayyy to many audience shots! The way the mix in Freddie on
Bohemian Rhapsody kinda reminds me of my mix style. Hmmm.. I wonder.... ...and I didn't get a freebie! I have to buy one just like everybody else!
:o)
Allen from Canada, I think, asked if I had to sign a contract
with Queen?. Yes I did although what I was verbally told, what was
signed and what actually happened were totally different unfortunatly.
:(
If you have any more questions, feel free to drop me an email. Thanks
to all those who have emailed previously. They are all appreciated.
Previous news:Well the DVD has been released and my
mix is on there, used over the end credits and my name is on the first
page of the booklet! Yay!
The only downside is that they seem to have taken an audience source
rather than a soundboard feed so it does sound rather 'distant'. Even
though I supplied QP with a clean CD quality source of the music, I
guess Sergey couldn't do the same with the Freddie part. Either that or
there was no time to reconstruct the mix prior to the release (which is
a shame).
Its good to know that by using my mix, QP in some way support the
'little guy' remixer. As many of you have said in your emails of
support, "I wonder what he could do, given access to the clean master
tracks..."
Cheers,
Ross.
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As my mixing
has gone into a hiatus period, here are some links to some new current
music that I recommend you listen to.:
| Artist |
Songs to check out |
Website Link |
| Annagrey |
Outside Myself, No Sleep
Tonight, I'm Alright With That, Old. |
Here |
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Tiffany
Hull |
Alone, Big Mistake,
Surreality, Shallow End, Would You, Ms Conceptions. |
Here |
| Suzanne Smith |
You Lied, I'm Over It,
Heartbroken, I Won't Forget That Feeling. |
Here |
| Fish |
Credo, Plague Of Ghosts,
Scattering Crows, Jack and Jill, Poet's Moon, Mr Buttons. |
Here |
| Barenaked Ladies |
Pinch Me, Too Little Too
Late, A, The Old Apartment, Long Way Back Home, Upside Down. |
Here |
| Chicane |
The Drive Home, Lost You
Somewhere, Andromeda, Autumn Tactics, East Side Story |
Here |
| Marillion |
Incommunicado, Exile On
Princes Street, Neverland, Afraid Of Sunlight, Estonia, Go. |
Here |
| Tasmin Archer |
Sleeping Satellite,
Hero, Steel Town, Sombody's Daughter, Sweet Little Truth, Sedan,
Take Care. |
Here |
| Donna Lewis |
Fools Paradise, Heaven
Sent You, Falling, Take Me Down, Scream, Lay Me Down. |
Here |
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Hue & Cry |
Labour Of Love, Looking
For Linda, Remote, Fireball, I Refuse, Inbetween, Life As Text, She
Makes A Sound. |
Here |
| Michelle Branch |
Everywhere, Find Your
Way Back, Love Me Like That, You Set Me Free, Sweet Misery. |
Here |
| Vanessa Carlton |
Who's To Say, A Thousand
Miles, Ordinary Day, Unsung, Afterglow, Streets Have No Name. |
Here |
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Way
Out West |
Just Like A Man,
Anything But You, Don't Forget Me, Blue, The Gift, Sequoia |
Here |
Cheers,
Ross.
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What are the Flossmixes?
They are mixes that I, Ross Robertson, have created using officially
release versions of songs. That is I don't have any seperate vocal,
bass, drums or whatever tracks that professional mixers have access to,
nor do I have any sophisticated hardware or software, just a bog
standard home PC with Cool Edit.
Why do they sound so good then?
Because I have a good ear for music I
guess, and I can tell what works and what doesn't! :o)
Why don't you get them officially released?
During 1999, Greg Brooks, The Queen
archivist, contacted me with a view to getting my Queen and related
tracks released in some official capacity. There was also some talk of
my mixes being re-recorded on professional equipment. My mixes were sent
on CD to Jim Beech who is Queen's manager, producer and general top bod.
He hasn't listened to them AFAIK but that is normal according to Greg.
With all the recent Queen releases, The box sets and DVDs, I guess my
mixes have been put on the back burner for now but I am still in
occasional contact with Greg.
Update! One of them has been
officially 'released' on the Return Of The Champions DVD and the mix,
"It's a Beautiful Day" remix, is being used on the intro tape on the
current tour.
But that mix is listed as being by DJ
Koma or some other guy and not you!
tt may well be but the music is mine.:
I haven't been keeping up with the latest tour developments and I've
been pretty much out of the Queen loop for a while. So imagine my shock
when I got an email from my old pal Bart Lammey, fellow Queen fanmixer,
asking "if I was famous now"!
I had no idea what he was on about and some frantic internet digging
later revealed that someone, a DJ Koma from Russia had used my Track 13
inspired song and mixed some of It's a Beautiful Day through it.
Collating rumours from various sources, it appears that Brian May had
somehow gotten hold of it, liked it and there its been on the intro tape
to nearly every gig on the current tour!
I still dont know the full details as no one bothered to contact me
about the mix, not even DJ Koma. See my
blog for my full thoughts on all
of this.
But it is thrilling to discover that one of my mixes has "made it",
ironically the one that had no Queen content in it, one of my few
originals!
You can download the mix that is being used on the tour
here and you can grab the original mix
here.
What mixes are you working on now?
None, at the moment.
I feel my ideas
outweigh my means. That is I would need the separate vocal, guitar,
drums etc etc tracks to do my ideas justice. So barring any flashes of
inspiration to mix the album versions, and my dissapointment with the
outcome of the contract I signed regarding the released mix, I don't think I will be doing any
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News:
Queen + Paul Rogers
 Now
that you have heard the Live CD with PR, what do you think?
What I wrote below, I think I jumped the gun. Paul
Rogers does a fantastic job carrying off the Queen classics. Fair
enough, he sings them in his style which might piss off the hardcore
Queen fanatics.
I think that Brian and Rog could sing more songs and
that tracks such as Breakthru and The Invisible Man could be played.
What I try and remember is that Queen as it is now
is an *evolution* and not PR trying to fill Freddie's shoes. I liken
the situation to Steve Hogarth taking over from Fish in Marillion.
They both have their different ways of singing the songs.
What do you think about the news that Queen are
going to be touring with Paul Rogers soon?
As I'm not overly familiar with Paul Rogers so I
cant really say but from the performance that I saw on some recent
music awards of Queen + PR, I can't say I'm overly impressed.
IMO, Queen could and should have found a much better
vocalist. Jeff Scott Soto, Chris Thompson, David Bowie, Meatloaf and
Matt Morton could have carried some of the back catalogue far far
better. Even Brian and Rog on vocals would have been preferable.
"Queen"?
I dont even know if you can really call it "Queen"
now seeing as John is not involved any more. Its more a case of The
Brian May Band with Roger Taylor and Paul Rogers, if you want to be
geekish.
But as the Queen brand makes more money, I'm not
surprised they are using it.
The Tour
Its great that they are touring again but why did
they snub Scotland again?! They can get to many European countries
and have many gigs in England but they cant find the time etc to
travel the extra hundred miles over the border. I'm disappointed.
The Unreleased Material
According to various sources on the net, the Box set
of unreleased material, demos etc will now not happen. The carrot on
the stick that Queen have dangled for us fans looks certain not to
be released.
Instead each album will be remastered and
rereleased (again!) with a bonus disk featuring demos and b-sides.
Buts that's good news, surely?
Yes and No.
It's good that this material will be available to us
mortals and not just the die hard collectors ("elites" anyone?) but
why oh why must Queen package them with yet another bloody rerelease
of the albums. WE ALREADY HAVE THEM!!! And several copies of each
probably! ie.e the vinyl, the CD, The US version CD etc etc etc.
It seems to me as if Queen are really milking the
fans on this one. Its bad enough the endless Greatest Hits, Queen Rocks, the loosely related
Queen musical and the GH DVDs but this one takes the biscuit.
I'm sorry but talking as one patient Queen fan and
as much as I would like to hear the unreleased stuff, I for one will
not be buying them. I refuse to be forced to buy the albums yet
again just so I can hear some new material.
Have a listen to the Barenaked Ladies song, "Box
Set". :o)
Must-Have Mixes:Love Of My Life (Floss Mix)
Love On A Tightrope (Floss Mix)
We Will Rock You (Christmas Mix)
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