This came out of the first Ground Loop session.

The first part was all about getting familiar with the setup, figuring out the gear, the layout, how everything connects. Nothing forced, just letting people get comfortable with it.

We took a break, came back, and the plan was to start pulling ideas together. I had a few directions in mind, bits half mapped out, but it shifted quickly.

One of the group threw out:
“Do you think we could remix this?”

The track was One, Two Step by Ciara ft Missy Elliott.

From there, everything redirected.
The last 15–20 minutes turned into a conversation, pulling the track apart, getting the files together, and starting something new off the back of a simple idea. That moment pretty much shaped the whole outcome.

I took it away after the session and finished it later that day...


This one’s now part of the process, I’ll be bringing it back into the next workshop to break it down properly. How a remix can start, how to structure it, and how to get your head around flipping something familiar into your own version.

This one’s a remix of Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.

I put this together as Catch92 to bring into the second Ground Loop workshop. After the first session, it was clear that remixing was something people naturally connected with. It kept the energy up, stayed familiar, and opened the door to learning without it feeling forced.

The idea with this one was to use it as a working example. Something we could listen to, pick apart, and understand how a track can shift. How grooves change, how sections evolve, and how you can take something known and move it into a different space.

We use remixes like this as a bridge. The same skills transfer straight into making original music, but this way you can hear it happening in real time.

It’s about understanding the process, not just the outcome, and then taking those ideas into your own work.

This one came out of the second Ground Loop workshop.

It started as a request to remix All of Me by John Legend, so I brought the stems into the session and we built it from there.

In the second half, we pulled everything into the project properly, went through the stems, and started shaping ideas around them. We brought in a few samples and loops, just enough to introduce something new without forcing it.

There was a real conversation around direction on this one. We didn’t want to overcrowd it. The focus was keeping things subtle, letting the piano and vocals breathe, and holding onto the feeling that makes the original what it is.

It became more about restraint than adding more. Just small shifts in energy, building around what’s already there without losing that stripped-back beauty.

Another session where the idea came from the room and we shaped it together.