Peter Gabriel has made the multi-tracks for Shock the Monkey available for free download at his Real World Remixed website.
For me, this is exciting news. I’ve been a Peter Gabriel fan since about 1980 (when Games Without Frontiers came out). He’s been one of those artists that I listen to whenever I need to be reminded of how good music can be when you’ve got great songs, talented players and creative production – all impeccably engineered.
Well – now you can go over to Real World Remixed, sign-up (for free) and download a Sample Pack of the classic track Shock The Monkey. It’s MP3 format and includes 31 different files with names like “PG-Falsetto”, “Middle8Marimba_Bass” and “ShockRevEcho”. Very cool.
At the site you can also download a number of other Sample Packs for songs by other Real World Records artists. If you feel like it, you can remix the songs in your favorite DAW, upload them back to the RWR site where the sites community members will be able to vote on your work.
When they first launched this site (about two years ago), they had a contest. The person who created the “best” remix of Shock the Monkey won an SSL Duende. Someone called Multiman created a killer remix called Simian Surprise and won the contest (it’s an amazing remix, really). You can hear the winner and watch a video of Peter Gabriel talking about some of the contest submissions at the site.
If you’re interested in honing your skills, (whether you like the song and Peter Gabriel or not), this is an excellent opportunity for you to get a look inside the making of a song that has been a mainstay on modern pop/rock radio for the last 26 years. Go and download the Sample Packs, compare what you hear to the original and learn.
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