R.A.M. ZEE MUSIC FACTORY!

Hey dudes!

So sound-wise all I needed was only three musical tracks and a few stings.

The music I needed was the openning club scene, chase music and a stirring romantic theme. All the music was done using Apple's GarageBand and Soundtrack. The stings were taken from various royality free wav sample sites on the internet.

The first choon (I know it's spelt 'tune' I'm just being urban, shitheadz) was done totally on GarageBand - I wanted it to have the Ed Banger Records sound (French Dance label famous for JUSTICE, SebastiAn, exc exc) so lots of drum samples and glitch FX.

The second one was HAAAAAAAAAARD! I tried so much on GarageBand and Soundtrack to make something cool but it all sounded crap. So I called up my mate Neil who recorded a emo-tastic, driving riff for me at his house and emailed it to me. I felt like I was Timbaland or something when I got it and layed drums on it! LOL

The third and final track was the romantic ending theme. I wanted it to sound like the last song on the classic musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer called 'Once More With Feeling'. I kick started Soundtrack and found the most strirring MGM orchestra sample and mixed it with another one that sounded like the one at the end of E.T. It had the right MGM tearjerker film score theme that I was going for.

So, all the tracks were layed down - just! I had this really cool yet totally pretentious idea of seeing that I was doing everything on a laptop which is portable - why not do a 'final mix' at location that is cool/famous/funny?????

Instantly I thought - BOWIE PHONEBOOTH!!! I'm a HUGE fan of David Bowie (From the albums 'Hunky Dory' to 'Scary Monsters...') so I grabbed my laptop, digital camera and Oyster card and took a 45minute bus ride to do a 5 minute final mix on the street where Bowie's classic album - and milestone in Rock 'N' Roll history - 'The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars' cover photograph was taken.

Actually I did the mix in the exact same phonebooth that Bowie/Ziggy was in waaay back in 1972!!!! It was an amazing thrill - kinda like scoring a goal in Old Trafford wearing George Best's old footy boots! LOL

The phonebooth was a bit of a Mecca, the inside was decorated in various fans dedications to Bowie and that gender bending rock messiah called Ziggy Stardust. I was in hallowed turf indeed.