Barry: Most everything I am proud of and there's a few things that I'm not, but that's just the way it is and I'm sure it is for everybody. I'm sure all the other big remixers like Paul Oakenfold has a few things that he kind of goes 'ugh.' I think everyone does, even Madonna and the biggest people have a few songs where they go 'oh God, did that song ever suck" "what was i thinking"! which she does actually, she won't do that whole "Material Girl" and "Dress You Up" world anymore. Well...maybe she will on this years tour! The closest she'll ever do it, would be equivalent to Cher's "Gypsies Tramps and Thieves medly", the tongue-in-cheek version she did on her tour, because it's a part of history, I would think.
RS: Which remix was the most difficult for you to do and which are you most proud of?
Barry: I am most proud of Mary J Blige's "No More Drama," that is the best thing that we ever did; the best song, the best artist, the best mix. I'm proud because there's three tempo changes in it. It was a lot of work and could never had happened without the both of us. It was us at our peak of excitement and our "hearts, blood, soul, and guts" were in it. Well they were in a lot of things but I think Mary J Blige's was the peak. It might sound arrogant but it is a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece of a production remix that's been unequalled. Everybody now is just throwing acapellas on top of beats in Acid, there's not a lot of thought. That whole song was a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece!
RS: Which one was the most difficult for you to do?
Barry: The most difficult? It would probably be "My Love Is Your Love" by Whitney Houston, because it was done in a very reggae swing vibe. It takes a lot of things actually to make the vocals time structure fit, you have to fiddle with them a lot to make them fit within a more up-tempo groove. There are other records where we learned our lesson, like "Bye Bye Bye." Somewhere in the BPM range of 80 to 90, we learned because of instinct you can't or it just doesn't work at 128 or 130 BPM.
RS: There's that "hell tempo" in there where you just can't do anything with it?
Barry: Exactly, and that's when I realized just because you can make it fit, doesn't mean you should. For example, "My Love Is Your Love," I know that Jonathan Peters was the hit version, which is fine but I still think the timestretch on her vocals sounds awful. She sounds like she's drunk,.... no rehab jokes now!
RS: No pun intended. Didn't Abigail sing "If it Don't Fit, Don't Force It?"
Barry: Exactly.
RS: What, to you, what was the ending point of Thunderpuss for you?
Barry: It was happening throughout the year, the whole relationship was dying. It happened in like March, it had happened by July, and I held off saying anything for months.
RS: Are you friendly with Chris still?
Barry: Yes, I am and we still talk on the phone. But the bottom-line is our relationship is like a boyfriend - girlfriend relationship where it's just never the same.
