Team Sleep‘s DJ Crook has detailed the lo-fi approach he utilized to help create the acoustic remix of the Deftones track “Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)“. That version of the song also featured Jonah Matranga of Far, etc. fame and emerged back in 1998 on a UK single as well as the nü metal friendly soundtrack to the Adam Sandler film ‘Little Nicky‘.
Through the below footage, he shows off the limited technology that was used to make the remix and had the following to say of the process:
“Here are some of the raw drum machine sounds off the original floppy disk for the 1998 “Acoustic” remix to “Be Quiet and Drive” off the Around the Fur album released in 1997. Can’t get much simpler than this, but sometimes that’s all it takes to make magic! I got a cassette in the mail with the vocals and guitar from @chinowmoreno and @jonahmatranga.
All I had at the time was this drum machine (8 yrs old at the time) and a tascam 4-track cassette recorder (10 yrs old at the time). I tapped out the tempo of the song and laid out the beat and recorded it on the other free tracks directly on the cassette they sent me. It magically stayed in sync. I dumped that down to another cassette and sent it back to them. (Can’t get any grimier than that) I was making hip hop demos and DJ mixtapes at the time so this was pretty exciting.
A little back story: I was visiting Sacramento when I first met Chino at @frvnkdelgvdo and @toddwilkinson apt in 1995. We got to talking and I played him a demo cassette tape of some hip hop stuff I had made and he listened to the whole thing. He then played me the “Adrenaline” album which was about to be released soon.
We eventually talked about working on something at some point and this remix was the first thing we did. #BeQuietAndDrive #Deftones #BeQuietAndDriveAcoustic #AroundTheFur #CrookOne #ChinoMoreno #JonahMatranga #EmuSp1200 #DrumMachines #SP1200″
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