Built Not Born: Hi Sienna Remix

Built Not Born is my artist project and a creative outlet for the music I write and for the remixes I do.

I originally got into music through my love of dance music. My goal has always been to release records of my own, albeit a secret goal for much of my life.

My first foray into this is my remix for a band I worked with for a few years called Hi Sienna.

It took me ages to release this first one. I'd worked on it just for fun and didn't intend to release it, the band didn't even know I'd done it. I was crapping it to send to them if they didn't like it or didn't want to release it. But they did and it's now out.

My music theory knowledge has always been a part of my skills that I wanted to upgrade and this really forced me to work on that part.

I started by looking at what keys most dance tunes were made in and there is an overwhelming lean towards the simplest keys to play so A minor being the easiest with no black notes. So I set about stripping the session completely of everything except the vocals and then transposing them.

After that I looped the chorus and started fitting a new chord structure to it and trying out a few different loops to see what sort of thing stood out to me. I think I chose the tempo again from another song that I liked the feel of, I honestly can't remember what that was now.

The rest of it came together relatively quickly as the structure was already there to follow. The bit that takes the longest for me is the sprinkles on top like the risers and production bits that help but aren't necessarily obvious on a first listen.

Oh and not to mention the endless playing it to myself and thinking will they/won't they like it!

Anyway here it is..