“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” — Aretha Franklin

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EtherReal

from Pieces of 8

1984

So this was the stupidest reason to create a track ever. I’d heard this remix of Billie Jean on a Michael Jackson megamix, and I thought it was ace. But I was never able to find the whole track anywhere (I’m under the impression it was never released on it’s own). So I just recreated it using samples from the Megamix. Voila. Not surprisingly this was not the last time I did something like this.

Then I got paranoid about the use of the sample, and so there existed a second version of this that didn’t have the Jacko bits in it, but that has long since gone the way of the dodo. I dunno what I was worried about, it’s not like I expected to get fame and fortune from my humble little tracker files.

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Ether’s Rush

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The first version, lost forever.

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Ether’s Rush (Billie Jean Mix)

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The eventual Pieces of 8 version which grew out of the above remix.

Credits

written, produced and arranged by EtherReal.