Introduction

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you're ready for this track which hasn't seen the light of day for many moons... until now! If you're in to your old school club classics, you may recognise the original by JX called Son Of A Gun but I wanted to share some of the original blog post I wrote about this as it was involved in a public vote where I let the people decide which free track they wanted! Here goes :)

What's The Story?

Well, it’s not as extravagant as some of my previous stories but there’s still something 😛

The remix itself came from one of those afternoons back in March 2012, when I definitely should have been spending time being slightly more productively on my PhD! That’s right, this remix is actually a few years old now! I was sat at my desk in my room, snooping around my music software and just started playing around with sounds, hitting my keyboard randomly until suddenly, I heard something that seemed very familiar.

It reminded me of Son of a Gun by Jx as it popped up randomly on my mp3 player during one of my many walks in to Uni. A quick online search to see if anyone had done a Drum & Bass remix of it yielded no results so I thought, let’s just go for it! I found the vocal and the song basically came together almost too perfectly! It was one of my earliest songs I uploaded to SoundCloud and quickly became very popular.

How Good Are Your Car Speakers?

Put simply, my production skills back then were terrible, the balance of the sounds was awful and I took it down for a few years, until I started getting better at balancing my tracks (the purchase of proper studio speakers helped with that conquest). That’s when I started sending my songs to be professionally finished by the guys at the Audio Animals studio and, once completed, I put this in the poll and as the people voted for it, you can now blast it out of your car speakers!

In fact, there is a funny story behind this, which starts off with my friend, Photo Addict (who helped me set up my website) downloading the first version of this remix 4 years ago. He went to his friend’s place as his mate was showing off about how he had these brand new speakers fitted in to his car. Now, remember how I said my production skills were a little bit loose back then? It turns out the bass was a little bit too strong and I received a message later that day from Photo Addict saying that the track blew his mate’s car speakers 😛 Whoops!

Anyway, click the download link to get the final remix, car speaker friendly (although I make no guarantees that it won’t cause damage – disclaimer 😀 )

Thanks for the support and getting involved! More free downloads to come, maybe I will bring the polls back someday!

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Where Was The Picture Taken?

Ah, yes, this is one of my pictures that I took when I went travelling in 2015 to the Grand Sequoia National Park in USA. I'll be posting more about this place in my Travel Diaries series when I get round to it so this Son Of A Gun has his work cut out :)