We pressed the action single on vinyl, I believe it was late 97, could have been early 98-ish, as I remember.
And it had both versions, the original and the remix, which is encased in this body of work here.
And it was special about the remix for me, I mean, production-wise, it was, again, the ASR-10, beautiful piece of machinery, saved my life many a time.
But with this one, again, I pulled my violin out, my acoustic violin, and was attempting to recreate a piece of music that I was listening to.
It was a classical Vivaldi piece.
It was something along those lines.
And once I started to layer and loop some of the parts I had, I was like, this is kind of cool.
And it wasn't the whole four to eight bars or whatever I was trying to achieve.
It just ended up being this kind of two-bar loop thing that eventually becomes a four-bar because of the harmonies added.
It's all technical, muso stuff.
And just throwing some hard drums.
Behind it, also, you know, it was always exciting.
It's one of my habits.
But then the ASR-10 had this sound, this patch, that was a guitar, but thrown through a guitar distortion.
And I realized, hey, wow, it doesn't sound absolutely real, but it sounds legitimate enough where I can manipulate this.
And layering that on top, I think, helped.
So much because I crossed over into other barriers.
And it's not just me saying, hey, I'm trying to do some rock * here.
No, there's more people coming at me, those who don't necessarily collect hip-hop, who were really interested in that song because it had other aspects that they weren't used to hearing, other than the Run dmcs and the Beastie Boys kind of thing.
So that was cool.
And then the other cool thing, obviously, is that record moved across the U.S.
And across Europe.
And one of the coolest experience with that record was being at Fat Beats in L.A.
And running into DJ Babu from Dilated Peoples.
And I don't know if he was working there or if he was just hanging out.
But we chatted and he showed me that they had the record on the front shelving, you know, big wide open doors in the summer.
And again, that blew my mind.
It's always exciting.
It's good to go and see what's happening with your music if you can travel to get a feel for how the world feels you.