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The American band The Dignity Of Labor, better known as TDOL, started in 1985, but when the band’s leader and mentor Kirk Taylor moved to another state, the band became just him. Kirk then released two albums, and had just signed with the record label A Different Drum, and had been planning a single since …
The Royal Visionaries project was created by American Steven Cochran from the band Eloquent together with Patrik Sjöström from Sweden. Patrik plays the instruments while Steven does the vocals/lyrics, forming a very interesting modern project with a retro 80s feel. Steven was the one who invited me to participate in the project by remixing one …
Opium is an old band from Russia, where they started in 1987 under the name Cold Attitude and only adopted the name Opium in 1991. During this time they also participated in several other projects with other musicians. Until then, all of their songs were in Russian. But Miroslav moved to Israel and met a …
Todd Durrant, who was the owner of A Different Drum, the largest American synthpop label, has always been by my side for almost my entire career, since the partnership with Aphex Music and Abril Music in 1999 in Brazil, my first Remix Contest and several releases over the years. He is also a musician and …
The American band EuroVision was looking for artists to remix their demos, and I offered to remix one of their songs, since I was already familiar with their work and had a demo CD of theirs that I thought was really cool. They were still looking for a record label and the remixes would help …
This is an Australian band that I have always been fascinated by, and I spent decades of my life looking for their CDs, which are almost impossible to get here in Brazil. As soon as I had access to the internet in 1995, they were one of the first bands I managed to get in …
Droom was an excellent Canadian band formed in 2002 that I barely knew, and I had only heard their really cool song “While We Can” in a promo for A Different Drum, the label that released their first two singles as well as their first album at the time, 128 1/2 Days, which I heard …
The American synthpop band Anything Box, of which I was already a big fan, held a remix contest to remix the song “Clean” in 2003. They were a huge success there and also in South America, although strangely they didn’t have any success here in Brazil, perhaps due to the Information Society craze that was …
The LuzArt Music label that launched Cuban singer Ada de Luque held a Remix Contest paying US$1000 to the winner, and of course I wasn’t going to miss this one. Although Ada was born in Cuba, she moved to Miami with her family when she was 5 years old, where she was raised. She studied …
Tom Shear, the only member of the American band Assemblage 23, posted the vocals and some other samples of the song “Document” from their 2002 album Defiance for Download on his website in the fan area, encouraging everyone to remix his song. A friend told me about these samples after hearing some of my remixes, …