James Bouchard

Memories 2009 remix

Memories 2009 remix
  • Genre: Alternative
  • Time: 04:39
  • Released: 2/9/2009
  • Label:
  • Album: Collaborations
  • Credits: Iseae (Leila Aldridge) and James Bouchard
  • Artist: James Bouchard
  • Location: AMERICA NORTH: USA: Massachusetts (MA)
  • Sounds Like: Acoustic

Song Information:

I just remixed this song and rather than update the old one I thought I'd post this as a new song since it's significantly changed. I revisited it because there was a bit of a festival thing over on MacJams to post something from way back when I first joined there, which I did the same time I joined here. This is the description from the posting over there: Well, this is the first song I collaborated on at MacJams, the first internet collaboration I ever did, back when I first joined MacJams back in 2004. The singer Iseae posted in the MacJams forum in 2004, looking for collaborators on this sketch of a song she had started, which consisted of the verses that you hear here. I think she put together the piano part as well. A couple people took a shot at some parts. I believe juedm did a drum track and fosod did a track of flutes, but I really took off with it and played guitars, bass, added a whole new drum part and sang, and added a bridge section to the song. I thought that worked out pretty well, but going through my emails, I found one where Iseae told me that she thought it needed a chorus, so I wrote one. We finished it up like that and she put it up on her page. She had harmonized on the chorus and her husband at the time punched in a note that I sang that was off, and it was interesting but the mix wasn't exactly what I had in mind, but still pretty good for my first internet collaboration, which would lead to many more. Eventually, I lost touch with Iseae, when as far as I can figure, she went through a lot of significant personal changes (including her marriage breaking up)and removed almost all of the songs on her page except one. I always liked this song, but the lyrics I'd written for the chorus and the bridge were sort of cloying, and I sang them in a cloying style, so I decided to re-write the lyrics and redo those parts. Of course I got carried away. I've remixed this pretty thoroughly for this version:
1. the drums are all new, replacing the juedm track and my old drum loop tracks with a new EZ Drummer part
1. the flute part that fosod is still in there, but I replaced the sound with mellotron flutes
3. my original harmonies on the verses from 2004 are still there, but I added pitch correction to give it a sightly T-Pain effect.
4. The bass part from 2004 is still there with a new Logic bass amp sound.
5. The guitar part from 2004 is pretty much untouched (it ends with ebow)
6. The vocals on the chorus and bridge are all new, with a T-Pain effect, that in part is there to give my vocal an underwater effect, because of the water references in the lyrics of the verses, and partially because Iseae used some Melodyne on her vocals and I thought maybe it would go along with the sound of her vocals better.
7. Iseae's vocals are all the original ones from 2004, and the pitch correction is as she did it with Melodyne
8. The piano part that Iseae played has been extensively edited.
9. The last chorus has been extended by 1/2.

iPod music Overload
iPod Music Overload
If you have an iPod, you're gonna love this, thousands of music tracks, many of which are shared freely by the revolutionary artists of MacIDOL.
iPod Music Reviews
iPod Music Reviews
Reviews of the best music you can squeeze into your iPod.
iPod Safe Music
iPod Safe Music
Alternative, Blues, Children's Music, Classical, Country, Dance, Electronic, Folk, Hip-Hop/Rap, Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtrack, Vocal, World iPod Friendly, freely shared music, made on a mac.
A Music Revolution
A Music Revolution
This is a revolutionary sound system for Mac music makers. Membership is completely free of charge and you get 3GB of space to share Your Own Original mp3 music.

Free iPod Music Downloads

Music Genres

Alternative, Blues, Children's Music, Classical, Country, Dance, Electronic, Folk, Hip-Hop/Rap, Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtrack, Vocal, World.

Shuffle

New Songs
Song Name Artist Genre
Holy Temple (Rescue Me) Tom Atwood Folk
decor v.1 jonx Alternative
tuerie !!!!!!! psylo Techno
Welcome Mat W/Finer's Blu Stuart Walker (aka Gumbo) Blues
Rave Avenue Max Lurya Club
Sexy dream Kìa Ambient
Loosing my Mind (notes) Cadman Pop
I WISH Momusu Childrens Songs
Cellophane Zebulon Revisited Electronic
hoedown stop it lucy Abstract