u/DC_defrost — reddlx

I'm Dragan Capor (DC 4 defrostMusic). I built this track a long time ago and let it sit. With Nine Inch Noize coming out two weeks ago and "Me, I'm Not" suddenly back in the conversation, it felt like the moment to actually release it.

The vocal from "Me, I'm Not" runs whole and untouched. The other half is Lisa Papineau's "Shucking. Jiving." from her 2006 album Night Moves. I lifted only her melodic vocal lines, the oohs threading through the intros, bridges, and choruses. Her voice carries the harmony, Reznor's carries the text. The bed is downtempo drum and bass, slower and more ominous than the original.

The Reznor material was sourced via archival files referenced through NinWiki (which has been an incredible resource over the years). The Papineau record came from the used bins at Amoeba Hollywood; I wasn't looking for it.

Why these two: both songs are about hiding.
"Me, I'm Not" turns on identity defined by
concealment. "Shucking. Jiving." carries the same theme in its title. I heard the connection.Matteo Castiglioni made a video for it, framed as an imagined NES cartridge. He described the concept as Jekyll and Hyde, two figures in one body.

Would love to hear what you all think.

u/DC_defrost — 14 days ago

▲ 7 r/guitarporn

I’ve been documenting some of the guitars I keep in the studio, and this is one of them.

I call it Glyph. It started life as a stock MIJ instrument built at the Matsumoku factory, but somewhere along the way it was completely reworked. The original body was replaced with a custom one designed and built by an architect. The shape is minimal, almost symbolic, which is where the name came from.

What I like about it is that it still carries its original Matsumoku electronics, so even though the physical form changed, the core of the instrument stayed intact. It feels like a continuation rather than a rebuild.

It’s also become one of those guitars I reach for when I’m traveling or sketching ideas... very direct, no distractions.

I’ve started posting more of these from the collection over on IG (@dragan_capor_official), but I’m curious, do you tend to prefer heavily modified instruments like this, or ones that stay closer to their original form?

u/DC_defrost — 17 days ago

▲ 10 r/petergabriel

I originally worked on this remix of Peter Gabriel’s “Shock the Monkey” during the official remix competition back in 2006, and then left it unfinished for a long time.

I came back to it years later and completed it in 2021, keeping parts of the original stems but pushing the track into something more rhythm-driven and contemporary. The idea wasn’t to modernize it in a polished way, but to lean into tension and repetition (something a bit more hypnotic and stripped down).

Most of the work was about rebalancing what’s already there, letting certain elements breathe while reshaping the groove underneath.

There’s also a video by Matteo Castiglioni, built as a reinterpretation using fragments of the original visuals and archival material, re-edited to match the feel of this version.

Curious how this lands for others... Does this kind of reinterpretation of Shock the Monkey still hold up?

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u/DC_defrost — 17 days ago