Al Green remixed

My newest music project was a pseudo hip-hop/electronica piece that involved various Al Green music samples and the workings of both Logic and Reason.

Here is the song itself:

To start off, I had been listening to Al Green's "The Very Best of Al Green" album as I was beginning to start my music project.  As I kept listening to the tracks, I realized that the background brass parts within the songs were incredibly vivid and more importantly applicable samples.  Specifically, the saxophone/trumpet descension in the song "Sha La La" after each line was very colorful.  You can hear the sample here at 0:35 and at 0:43:

I then heard the sample to the song "I'm Still In Love With You" and I thought the beginning trumpet riff would be a great way to start my piece (from the beginning to 0:05):

The way these samples were worked in:

In the very beginning of my track, I use the intro to "I'm Still In Love With You," but I slow down the tempo to 90 bpm on logic, adjust the cutoff frequency using the "AutoFilter" insert and gradually increase the gain using to create a "sweep" in the beginning.

The next segment begins with a simple guitar riff that alternates between C major and B minor back and forth and this riff keeps playing itself until it is interrupted by a vocoder.  The vocoder sample here was created by recording my talking voice into the computer microphone on a separate track, then using that specific audio track as the "input" for the vocoder.  The vocoder leads into a simple bass line, while the guitar sound opens up a bit more (the cutoff frequency increases a bit).

After this riff plays through, the track transitions into a pseudo-solo section as the sample of the trumpet/sax from "Sha La La" enters in with a piano.  Funny enough, the solo that begins here is actually the synthesizer-based theme song to Super Nintendo's "Donkey Kong Country 2."

Thereafter, the percussion part of the song enters in as I used the hip-hop kit from Reason's Redrum, using the Rewire slave mode capabilities.  After the percussion plays with some of the guitar riff a bit more, the song transitions as the vocoder plays once more then leads into a slowed-up version of the intro to Steely Dan's "Caves of Altamira".  The sample can be seen here from 0:09 - 0:12:

The sampled is played three times through, sped up, then the low-pass filter sweeps through once more.  As this is happening, the song crescendos to a climax and is met with strong percussion to lead into the finale of the song.

The original guitar riff plays once more through, then vocoder leads into a section where an acoustic piano accompanies the guitar riff.  For the final few riffs, the saxophone samples, and at the very end, the saxophone sample from Al Green's song is extended through to finish the song on an R&B type of feel.