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The Infadels - Love Like Semtex (Fear of Tigers Remix)

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The first one is The Infadels - Love Like Semtex (Mr B/Fear of Tigers remix) circa 2006. I made this remix on a pair of laptop speakers, a toy keyboard and an antiquated Acer laptop, in a tiny room in Hammersmith, West London. This track was my entry into a remix competition that Wall of Sound were running to promote the band. I had vowed to give up making music a couple of years before and was working as an editor at a music website at the time, but thought this would be a little bit of fun to do. I remember being quite drunk when I put the synth riff down in the middle, I guess the booze helped me let go a bit. I created my first MySpace account just to put this remix up. The (pretty awful) name ‘Mr B’ was taken and after 10 minutes of trying different combinations, Fear of Tigers somehow just appeared.

Much to my surprise, the remix ended up winning the competition and I went on Eddy Temple Morris’ XFM radio show to do a little interview. I also worked with the Infadels in their Hackney studio to see if we could come up with a better mix (we couldn’t). The track came out on a 12” which I still have although that version was not as good as the one here. I did a few other remixes as Mr B, including a couple of tracks for Bent before I started using the name Fear of Tigers proper, but this was by far the best one. The Infadels have since split up but I heartily recommend checking out some of their music, particularly their third album produced by Alex Metric. I also did a little writing with Bnann the lead singer, maybe you’ll hear our efforts one day. Anyhow this remix is a testament to how you can do something good with very little equipment. Thus endeth the history lesson, another remix tomorrow!

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from Remixology, released February 21, 2018

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