Static Turkey

As you may have gathered, Röyksopp recently very kindly offered everyone the chance to remix their track Tricky Tricky, a challenge which really seemed to good to miss.

Our illustrious remixing career began in 2007, when Simon took on Erasure's When a Lover Leaves You. I think it's a great version - actually I think it's better than the original, and it certainly sounds more like Vince Clarke. It didn't win the competition, but never mind... Anyway, for some reason that I don't entirely remember, we've never mentioned this before, but if you're curious you can hear it on their official website here (scroll down to entry number 148).

Later in 2007, we had a go at Marsheaux's cover of New Order's Regret for a competition set up by the Electronically Yours website. For reasons best known to themselves, the results of the competition were never revealed - but we can only assume it didn't win!

We then went through a quiet patch on this front, unfortunately missing out on a couple of tracks I'd have liked to have had a go remixing, but there you go...

So then Tricky Tricky came along. As you might expect from a group like Röyksopp, it's a pretty complicated track. When the competition launched, I had a quick listen through to the early entries, and frankly they were rubbish. I thought, I can do that!

Actually, as it turned out, I couldn't. I worked out some of the sequences, and came up with a few interesting parts, but I didn't think it was working at all. Fortunately Simon liked one of the parts (the riff which runs all the way through our version), and so I rebuilt it completely using that. Everything else came together pretty quickly.

I think for the first time on a track of ours, it was recorded entirely using software synths in Cubase - mainly the TAL vintage synths which sound incredibly similar to Junos and SH-101s. I then indulged my recent habit of putting ridiculous amounts of effects all over everything, and Bob was our uncle.

I still wonder if the final mix wasn't quite right - but that's the sort of thing I always worry about. Judge for yourself on our SoundCloud page. The results are announced tomorrow.