Wow.  I am very impressed with both the amount of mixes posted and

the level of creativity involved.  I was hoping for mixes that would

run the gamut  from pro mixes of the stems to complete remixes into

different genres of music.  These exceeded my expectations.

I will expound on my motivations behind my playing on this song for

those who are interested  (Skip to the last paragraph if you only

want to find out whose remixes I liked best).   This song is

obviously a political statement of SJ's.  I approached the drums

thinking about, "what would Meg White play?" She tends to play a lot

of quarter note bass drum parts and that seemed to anchor the

beginning of the tune while still giving it a place to build.  SJ

said he imagined one of those monkey's with cymbals playing the

beginning of the song which visually gives you his take on the tone

of his lyrics.  The drums evolve in the second verse and I went with

a marching feel because this songs deals specifically with US

cultural and political phenomena and what country is more martial

than the US of A? The song really drops when the big distorted

guitars kick in.  Again, I was thinking Meg White bombast where the

cymbal and the bass drum and snare play the same pattern.  Don't get

wrong, I love Meg White's drumming (I give a lot of credit to

producer Jack BTW). But Meg's parts often develop from her

limitations as a drummer, in some cases lack of independence between

her limbs.   This lack of independence actually creates a really

cool feel on big, dumb rock beats.The outro developed out of me

playing the old Run DMC, Jam Master Jay agogo bell beat at a sound

check.  I was going to overdub an agogo bell but did not think the

song needed it with Tony's kick ass outro solo. I will save that for

the live performance.  There you have it.

Once again, thank you to everybody for putting hours of work into

all these mixes.  One guy fought with his girlfriend over why "music

is better than her". Let me just say, in the ill fated words of the

west Texas, chicken coop driver unlucky enough to run into Anton

Sigor in No Country for Old Men, "Brother, I been there." I digress.

I listened to 75% of the mixes and if I did not hear your

masterpiece, I apologize in advance.  Of these, two really stood out

to me.  Again, I wanted to hear people getting really creative with

the stems, so I was drawn to dramatically different mixes than what

will ultimately end up on the3EB record. Christian Hand's remix

(http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/3025

) immediately drew me in.  He remixed the outro and put it at the

top of the arrangement.  This remixed intro is really musical and

the delays on the drums and vocal spikes are really cool.  I know I

like something when I get mad that I did not think of it. I'm

pissed(not drunk). Great work Christian.

The other remix I really like is Tom Olbrich's

(http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/3028

).  He re harmonized the entire song with his dark Berlin bass

line.  I was just in Berlin with Year Long Disaster and bought a

piece of the Berlin Wall. Perhaps I am biased.The re harmonization

was a really creative idea and essentially made NDC into a new song.

He really developed a cool rhythm track with original beats as well

as my work.  It is not as simple as just throwing the stems down in

a different arrangement.  The drums have to be cut up and nudged

around to make a remix work. Great $hit.

Peas,

Brad