Jackass — Cutting Room Floor Mix

This cover started and ended in very different places.

My original intent was to make an all mallets, percussion and bells version of this song as a nod to my days in percussion in the school band. Sitting with it for a few days, I realized with just mallets it wasn't a very listenable experience but didn't want scrap some of the recordings and chose to layer in elements that fill it out a bit more. 

Thinking about Beck, I assume that the studio is a very messy and experimental place and much of what we hear takes much more restraint. I wanted to treat my final cover as if it was an instrumental version pieced together from everything that was left on the cutting room floor when recording a song like this.

The final is a mix of bells, glockenspiel and celesta recorded from our piano. Those are layered some of the same parts done with midi for a fuller sound. Drums are a mix of sampled shakers and the main beat is a faux 808 drum machine in GarageBand meant to sound like the drum unit in an organ with a bit of swing and some ridiculous fills that made me laugh. The bells were far too clean so I layered in some psychedelic backward flute and backwards versions of the same bells to mess that up a bit.

-Barrett