...and progression (Sonifi)

Warning: This post is the reeeemiixxxxxxx.

So as I mentioned earlier, Rose of Jericho from BT wasn't really doing it for me like I wished it would. Listening to the more subtle points of it, the quality of sound is actually very BT, but it's all overshadowed by a very generic, fairly garden-variety thumpthumpthump of a progressive house/trance bassline. Even a 30 second rip-it-all apart segment in the middle would have tacked 2 extra stars on my rating of it. The remixes on the release (Sultan & Ned Sheperd, Robbie Riviera) are also underwhelming - the former is just a more generic house rendition, and the later feels like an attempt at currently-trendy electro that falls short.

There is one more remix on the market, though, and this one rocks the party that rocks the mutha-loving party.

For non-BT fanboys and girls, you may or may not have heard of Sonifi, an iPhone app that the man and his crew have been slaving over for some impressive amount of time. The app essentially allows live remixing of tracks using the iPhone. LoFi, Low Pass & High Pass filters are activated by sliding fingers on the screen. Each of the 4 layers of the track (melody, extra synth, bass, beats) have multiple samples available to interchange between. And finally and perhaps most impressive of all, is BT's own Stutter Edit effect, activated by shaking the iPhone - not 1, but in 3 different axes to achieve 3 different effects.

That's 3-dimensional remixing, ladies and gentlemen. 3 dimensions. Count them.

The thing is so piss-easy to use it could make a toddler seem like a pro-dj, and yet has enough going for it that it's far more than just pushing buttons. It's highly addictive.

All good things are by no means perfect: there's only one track available as yet; Rose of Jericho. It could have extra options like a time remaining bar or a tempo gauge, but I'm just hunting for faults now. All in all, it's a fantastic piece of innovative work, and I'm more than impressed.

One more fault though - it's extremely addictive. I think my productivity for Friday afternoon has just been reduced to zero.

Here's a vid of a guy playing with it.