Making NYC The Place To Be

This track (also intended as a 2011 time capsule like our last release) pays tribute to the late Heavy D by combining his hip-house classic “Now That We Found Love” with Afrojack’s “Take Over Control”. The result works in both content and melody and hopefully breathes new life into two iconic songs from different eras.

Culture Bully asked us to contribute to their annual “Mashed” mix for 2011, which aims to be a mashup time capsule of sorts, so we submitted two tracks and “Medieval Love” made the cut (we’ll be releasing the other one next).  It takes the acapella and some other elements from The Rapture’s “How Deep Is Your Love” and combines it with Fake Blood’s “Medieval”.   The two songs share a similar melody so when the stems for “How Deep Is Your Love” were released, we seized the opportunity for a slightly more involved blend.

Medieval Love (Its Overture Bootleg) by Its Overture

And to check out Culture Bully’s full “2011 Mashed Mix” go HERE

For those that may have missed some (or all) of these when they first dropped, as the title says, this EP compiles 4 tracks where we either remixed or reworked some of the bigger rap songs from the past year or so.

RAP REMIX EP (Mediafire Link)

1. Dark Fantasy (Its Overture Remix) - Kanye West

2. I’m On One (Its Overture Remix) - DJ Khaled & Drake

3. Ni**as In Paris (Its Overture Remix) - Jay-Z & Kanye West

4. You Be Killin Em (Its Overture’s Tempo Murderer Edit) - Fabolous

It’s that time of year again, jingle bells, snow days, shoppers getting pepper sprayed for black Friday sales prices. Yes! It’s Christmas! My little gift to you is this collection of holiday songs I’ve been feeling lately. The mix hovers around the soul, funk, rock region, however, it does delve into some beatnik styles as well as some Ska. So listen up and enjoy. It is also available for a free download.

While not quite a remix, we tried to take this track a few steps beyond what you would expect from a blend/mashup these days. We figured that if you’re going to mess with Etta James’ iconic “At Last”, you better make it worthwhile. So we chopped up her vocals all types of ways, progressing from the straightforward to the insane (check around the 3 minute mark for evidence). Using Quentin Harris’ epic “Let’s Be Young” as a backdrop, these two classics combine to create the type of soulful dance music we love most.

Young At Last (Its Overture Bootleg) by Its Overture

We stumbled across this one while working on an upcoming mix. It pairs Nelly Furtado’s Timbaland-assisted “Say It Right” acapella with an instrumental edit we did of Midnight Magic’s modern day classic “Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)”.

Beam It Right (Its Overture Blend) by Its Overture

It only took a few listens to recognize that Frank Ocean’s “Thinking About You” is a masterpiece. After having it on repeat for about a week, I also decided that any attempt to remix it was not only futile, but pure blasphemy. Had I even been willing to consider it, the idea of combining it with one of the more popular big room house songs of the past few years (Swedish House Mafia’s “One”) would have been the furthest thing from my mind. And yet, here we are, presenting you with just that.

We actually dismissed it as soon as we put it together, but over time, we found it every bit as addicting as the original. We steadily build the track up from its slow ballad roots to the all out intensity of its Swedish House Mafia counterpart. So give it a listen (or two, as it seems to grow on every one we play it for) and let us know if we committed a crime against musical perfection or gave you a new way and another reason to listen to one of Mr. Ocean’s best.

Thinking About You (Its Overture’s One Mix) by Its Overture

A little over a month after its release, the long awaited Watch The Throne has been digested and debated by many and no matter where you’re opinion lies, it’s been a dominant conversation piece in hip hop. Given everyone’s familiarity, we felt it was an ideal time to rework one of its standout tracks, “Ni**as In Paris”. The melody is undeniably addictive and, in our minds, it was screaming to be flipped. So we chopped and rearranged it, switched up the tempo and added flavoring from a couple other punch-you-in-the-face-type-intense hip hop classics (”Ante Up” and “Get Your Freak On”, to be precise).

Ni**as In Paris (Its Overture Remix) by Its Overture