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Decon Theed - Free Man [Piston Quints Remix]

from The 12 Remixes of Christmas 2015 by 103 Records

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Track 8: Free Man [Piston Quints Remix]
Original Artist: Decon Theed
Remix Artist: Piston Quints
Original Track: 103records.bandcamp.com/track/free-man-we-merry-few-mix

I mentioned back on Track 5 that I'd asked Dio if there was any material she specifically wanted me to remix for this year; this is the second of her requests, a remix of my old joint Free Man.

Free Man was an early attempt at coming up with a "theme song" for our joint project E.Q., a series of stories set in a universe where music is no longer a free artform, and is instead used by the governing bodies of the world as a tool/weapon to control and subdue the masses. It's another of the many songs that I did under the Decon Theed name before I'd really settled on how I wanted that alias to sound- if anything, it actually sounds closer in style to the direction I wound up taking Visor Jack. Dio didn't just want a remix of Free Man, though; she specifically wanted a Piston Quints remix (as she has frequently mentioned that my Piston Quints stuff is often her favourite material of mine), and she wanted a remix that would fit with the E.Q. Christmas Special from back in 2013.

Her initial specifications for what she wanted out of the track had me a little daunted, but after hashing it out overnight and settling down to work the following morning, the track game together just fine. There's actually a sense of progression to the song that follows the last leg of the story along, from the point where Arpeggio flies home on the fighter jet up to the “You’re late.” (technically beyond that, too, wherein the hopelessly lovesick pair probably boned the night/morning away). I'd be surprised at the speed with which the song came together- barely a couple of hours- but Piston Quints stuff, by nature of being much freer/experimental, allows me to go a little "looser" with song progression and arrangement. So it's more surprising when Piston Quints stuff DOESN'T come together quickly.

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from The 12 Remixes of Christmas 2015, released January 1, 2016
composed and remixed by Decon Theed

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103 Records is an independent label based in Cambridgeshire. Spearheaded by Decon Theed, 103 Does not believe in narrow genre focus, forced monetary participation, or exclusion of the individual; our goal is provide music of any genre, produced by musicians from all walks of life, and to have it be as readily available to everybody as is possible. ... more

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