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This track was made for a remix competition in which the winner got their remix released as part of the official remix package for ‘Set The Controls’ on Elite Force’s U&A Recordings.

Having just installed the software Fruity Loops, I decided to use this competition as a reason to teach myself how to use it. Almost every night over 2.5 weeks in November 2010 was spent messing around with the samples provided & layering instrument samples chosen from a Computer Music Magazine DVD until it was submission time. Unfortunately, I hadn’t enough time to learn how to master my track & thus it sounded pretty awful, Jeff T won the competition with an awesome take on the track (available from Beatport here), and that was that.

Now, 5 months later, I’ve re-opened the FL project file & mastered the track as best as possible on my old XP machine, that for some reason made playback crackle after running each element through a compressor and in the end forced me to tweak the settings blind (or deaf, however you like to look at it).

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