Last week Ruby Isle decided to cover the number one song on elbo.ws. It happened to be Shadow Falls by Hello, Blue Roses. We posted about it here. This turned out to be a really fun experiment. In only a few hours we tried to take a beautiful, somber, ambient song and turn it in to a party jam. It turned out so well that I decided to send it to a few friends and they all really seemed to like it. Some people also pointed out that it was a very surreal experiment in that we actually released a cover of a song before the actual song itself was officially released. It really pointed out the immediacy of the musical world we live in where release dates have really become nothin’ but a number.

This week we decided we would take the experiment a little further. We are going to continue to do covers of the #1 spot on the elbo.ws hot tracks chart on a semi-weekly basis until we get bored or the songs get bad. Mark, Aaron and I are then going to blog about it here at kinderblog hq and let everyone know what we did, how we did it and post a copy of the song. Mark will talk about the technical side of the original track, I will discuss what we did to it and Aaron is going to add a graphic interpretation of our cover for each song. We figure someone might find our analysis of these tracks interesting Keep in mind, we won’t be criticizing them, just covering them and talking about the technical aspects of the original songs.

The process itself is kind of interesting since Mark and Aaron live in Minneapolis and live down here in Athens, GA. Thanks to yousendit, we are able to record, mix and master the tracks within a few hours by sending tracks and files back and forth. Then we will post it here and let you have it. The whole thing can really be done in a matter of hours if we have time and are inspired. Obviously, starting with a good song is really going to help!

With that said, this week’s track is already done. Aly Walk With Me by Raveonettes should be up very soon.

Posted by dan on 28 Nov 2007 at 11:55 am