Mic Geronimo – Wherever You Are (JChan Apparitions Remix)

Some atmospheric funk featuring loops of glass harmonics sampled from Philippe Sarde’s soundtrack to Roman Polanski’s The Tenant.

OC – Time’s Up (JChan Tenant Remix)

Another remix of OC’s seminal track, this time with loops samled from Roman Polanski’s “The Tenant.”

Nas vs Roman Polanski – Purple (JChan Shards of Glass Remix)

I flipped an instrumental I made from samples of glass harmonics taken from Philippe Sarde’s soundtrack to Roman Polanski’s The Tenant a while back with Nas’s ‘Purple.’

MF Doom meets Radiohead and Another Strung-Out Beat

Damn – they stole my idea – or rather they beat me to the punch. I love the piece “Proven Lands” on Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood’s soundtrack to There Will be Blood – if there were ever a beat to be flipped from music made for a string ensemble, this is it, and I’ve been struggling to find a way to remix it/mash it up. Now, it seems Radiohead and MF Doom (or DOOM, as he now prefers to be called) have done just that with “Retarded Fren“:

The Tenant Remixes 3 – Unraveling

Part three of my Tenant Remixes series – this one is based on loops from Philippe Sarde’s ‘Apparirions’ off the soundtrack to Roman Polanski’s classic psychological thriller.

The Tenant Remixes 2 – Murderers and Killers

Critics hated The Tenant when it came out in 1976, saying it bordered on “self parody” and a dissipation of “whatever talent [Roman Polanski] once had” – all the more reason to love it.

Macabre, absurd and indeed supremely self-indulgent, the film’s influence on psychological horror films is undeniable, not least of which for its amazing soundtrack and Roman Polanski’s memorable lines as his character suffers a complete mental breakdown (in drag, no less).

The Tenant Remixes pt. I – Shards of Glass

Roman Polanski made this film, based on a novel by Roland Topor, in 1976 – the last in his acclaimed “Apartment Trilogy” (which includes Repulsion and Rosemary’s Baby). Unlike many of Polanski’s films, which were scored by Polish jazz legend Krzystof Komeda, The Tenant was scored by French film composer Philippe Sarde.

Sarde’s score features a “glass harmonica” that Mozart himself had played as an aural reference to the protagonist’s (played by Polanksi himself) obsession with glass. I remixed Sarde’s main theme and added some aural embellishments of my own.