White Tie Affair

So Brandon (Bonics) and myself were commissioned to produce a remix for The White Tie Affair's new track "Better When You're Drunk". It's a fun party song, already at 128 BPM and in the dance/retro/rock genre seemed easy enough. I think I tried to make it too musical assuming everyone else would do more electro/LMFAO/MSTRKRFT style remixes. I eventually got so frustrated trying to make it something it wasn't that I threw my hands up in frustration.

Fast forward a few weeks, I get the mixes they did receive from the label via my Billboard gig and preceded to pop the CD in my car. I was expecting to be bummed and wishing I had tried a bit harder, but after listening to the mixes they ended up using I felt both regret and even happy. These mixes neither payed homage to the original, followed any conventional structure or production, or were even really club friendly. The bar was set pretty low. I knew then and there I had had had to finish this remix. Apparently the label felt so as well because they were like "Uh, did you guys ever finish the mix?"

I'm mastering today, you'll hear and hopefully everywhere else soon.