Fatboy Slim has used AI to “clear up” his Rolling Stones mash-up Satisfaction Skank after getting the band’s approval.
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The celebrity DJ and producer defined that after 20 years of knock‑backs and numerous bootlegs, Sir Mick Jagger and co ultimately caved and gave their blessing for his mixture of his 1998 dance hit The Rockafeller Skank and the legendary rock band’s 1965 basic (I Cannot Get No) Satisfaction to be formally reworked.
He instructed NME: “There was one level after they requested me to remix Sympathy For The Satan.
“I mentioned, ‘Whereas we’re chatting about this, possibly we might put that Satisfaction mash-up I did because the B-side?’ and so they have been like, ‘No’.
“After 20 years of ‘no’ we had given up, then immediately they got here to us. A part of me thought the ship had sailed a very long time in the past, however there nonetheless appears to be a requirement for it. It’s been out and in of my DJ units, however should you actually need to nail it with one final tune then it’s a great way to finish.
“The great factor is that as a result of this model by no means formally got here out, it turned my secret weapon.
“For me, that’s what stored it contemporary: I solely heard it as soon as per week once I performed.”
On utilizing AI to scrub up the recording, he went on: “The unique model was achieved actually cheaply and the entire thing simply got here out of 1 gap in my sampler. Now, we received the unique stems off The Stones so I might make every little thing a bit of bit cleaner and utilizing AI we received higher separation and readability. I’ve tidied it up, nevertheless it’s nonetheless the identical factor. It’s taking pictures fish in a barrel to take a report that’s been round for 25 years and one other that’s nonetheless a basic from 50 years in the past and ask, ‘I ponder: will individuals like this?’ Sure riffs, motifs and memes simply by no means exit of vogue.”
Because it stands there isn’t a official launch date for the mash-up, however Norman Prepare dinner’s individuals are in contact with the Stones.
He mentioned: “Mick [Jagger] was all the time a fan of it. It was extra of a enterprise resolution holding it again. I haven’t spoken to them on this spherical of negotiations; my supervisor does all that and I don’t become involved within the ins and outs. Though I appear to be assembly Mick and Keith [Richards] so much within the AI world for the video – which is sort of bizarre and I form of really feel like I do know them now.”
