$5 Record Remix Challenge

Today, J.D Casten, Avitar Virgonian and myself went down to CD World in West Eugene to shoot some video footage and do some digging for a project we're working on. The project is one of remixing material we find with a $5 budget. It's based on another project done by a group of producers in LA, in a video called "Secondhand Sureshots".

Secondhand Sureshots from Sanchir Enkhbayar on Vimeo.

The rules are outlined in the video, but i'll go over them again. We can only use the records we got for source material. No external samples or instruments are allowed. Editing and effects are allowed.

I've done this before, with a random handful of records from my own collection, but this is a chance to do it alongside other people. We had a really great time digging through the records at CD World. Even though we're there fairly often, and know some sections like the backs of our hands, there was still lots of good stuff to find today, and a lot of fifty-cent and $1 stuff that for the purposes or this challenge is much more useful for sampling than it would be for track-based DJing. Here's the records I found for the challenge.

There turned out to be some really interesting stuff in here. There's a James Last album there (usually a good bet), some country-rock from the Janus label, a 3xLP loss leader comp with a lot of good, if not terribly obscure, 70's tracks, and a Russian rock album from 1987 (still well within the era of strict Soviet censorship). The bossa nova album is more on the easy listening side, unfortunately, but for the purposes of this challenge, there's still quite a bit of useful source on it.

Solo shot of the Russian rock album. Contains a significant amount of synth as well.

Our other collaborators on this project are a couple of guys named GUMS and Antitune. I haven't met them, but from what Avitar Virgonian tells me, they'll be coming up with some great stuff on their end as well.

Here are more photos of the dig session today, courtesy of of photographer, JD Casten.