The Magic Carpet (Fish Go Deep Remix) - Latecomer

This track was originally released on the fabulously named Trendy Mullet label back in 2010. It's a dreamy, jazzily percussive groove that slides and glides it's way under your skin. We played it a lot on our radio show at the time. It was a suprise to discover that Latecomer is a young Russian producer, not some seasoned house veteran. Check out the original mix below...

When head Mullet, Matt, recently asked us to pick a track from his label's back catalogue to remix, The Magic Carpet immediately sprung to mind. After a couple of false starts, the Juno 106 started working it's deep bass magic, that slurping hi-hat groove started swinging and we were off. As neither Greg nor myself are trained musicians, we find Melodyne Editor invaluble for figuring out chord sequences, rearranging them and extracting fragments of sound. It's an amazing piece of software that has developed into something far beyond it's original auto-tuning use. If you've thirty minutes to spare, there's a great interview with it's inventor, Peter Neubäcker, here.

Aside from the Juno and Melodyne, the other star of this particular remix was Urs Heckmann's beautiful new Diva soft synth. There are plenty of purely virtual machines that give their real world counterparts a run for their money but, for me, a Moog or a classic Roland is always going to sound better. Diva comes closer than any soft synth I've used to matching that sound. It has a deep, rich and, most importantly, musical tone that makes you want to play. It does put a serious strain on a computer's CPU but, for such a high quality return, I reckon that's an acceptable trade-off. We were using a beta version of Diva during this remix and didn't delve too deeply into it then but it's since become a staple in our plug-in folder.

Anyway, that was all a roundabout way of saying that the remix is now available and you should definitely buy at least one copy here.

Ever Wonder (Fish Go Deep Remix) - Alton Miller ft Abacus

Alton Miller is one of those rare producers that has been consistently producing quality music with a minimun of fuss for many years - no flavour-of-the-month hype, no bandwagon-jumping, just soulful, grown-up house. From early 90's gems on KMS and Serious Grooves to more recent releases on Peacefrog, Seasons and Clone, his music has long been and still is essential listening.

So when Andy Roberts, label boss at Toronto's Mixed Signals Music, asked us to remix one of the tracks from Alton's forthcoming album, we needed all of, oooh, about two seconds to say yes. Andy sent us the album, Light Years Away, and on first listen Ever Wonder jumped out at us - beautiful chords over a great groove, topped with a sweet vocal line. Plenty to work with.

We're not the quickest studiobots on the block but this remix came together pretty fast. We went with a stripped back groove for the first half - cutting up the keys and filtering them down to just the low end - before introducing a new Rhodes piano and the full vocal line half way through. Some extra percussion and a synth line mirroring the vocal melody takes it home.

Nothing (Fish Go Deep Remix) - Version

We usually only take on a couple of remixes each year but, in 2010, we worked our way through a whole bunch of them... The Broad Bean Band, Jamie Anderson ft Mr K Alexi, Chymera, Exit Pursued By a Bear and this one, by Charles Webster and Martin Iveson's Version project.

Actual size. Well, almost.'Nothing' features the wonderful voice of Emilie Chick and was a real pleasure to work on. Our little Doepfer Dark Energy monophonic synth had just arrived and we made full use of it in the remix, most obviously in that thick, creamy low line that goes a bit potty towards the end. For such a small piece of kit, it produces a hell of a sound.

Other remixes in the package are by Marlon D and Atjazz and it's in shops on Miso Records right now.

The Only Way Through Is The Music

The current release on our Go Deep label is a lovely song from brothers David and Robbie Kitt - aka Spilly Walker - all about the restorative powers of music. It comes in Original and Fish Go Deep flavours, the latter featuring a stellar guest appearance from everyone's favourite Kerry chanteuse ,Tracey K, and is in analogue and digital record stores worldwide. More info here.