Скачать или смотреть Michael Sembello - Maniac (D.Kay & John B Remix)

hello and welcome to SM's Stuff :teefking:

I heard this track get played out in EP 37 of the John B podcast (where my Vault triple-edit came from) and instantly fell in love. It has a very Pendu-bass sound to it, almost feeling like another version of The Mack in all honesty. It's also painfully catchy.

The versions of this track on YouTube and Soundcloud are cut completely wrong - they're missing half the track. They give less than 30 seconds of the drop and cut back to a break/buildup - multiple times. The version of this I played in one of my mixes last year was one of these poor-cuts.

So I corrected it. I ripped the audio from the podcast as best I could (unfortunately not as high quality as we'd all like) and re-arranged it and the previous audio we had to get the full song (well, assuming there's nothing else). That involved cutting a section of the last two minutes and relooping it to get rid of John mixing in a Nine Inch Nails track (though there are drums from that track in the second break/build for a few seconds, nothing I can really do there), as well as stitching on the intro. The last 2 minutes are probably longer than the actual file, but as we don't have that original file... I erred on the side of having more audio than less.

Intro up to 1 minute shelves at 16kHz but the rest of the track shelves at 15kHz, extends just under 16 but not enough. Unless there's higher quality rips out there, this is as good as we're gonna get for now.

For those who know the original track by Sembello, you'll note these vocals are not the same - that's because these vocals come from the Terence remix of Maniac, called Maniac 2001. Vocals were done by Pit Bailey instead.

Also, yeah, not actually sure whose remix this is. Some people label it as "D.Kay - Maniac (John B Remix)" but I have never found a track by D.Kay actually called Maniac anywhere, so as far as I know, this is either a collab remix, or some mistitling. The podcast doesn't have a tracklist, either, unfortunately.

So there you go, an SM "remake". Maybe one day I'll actually be able to do real remakes haha