I Wan'na Be Like You - Yukihiro Fukutomi

As always with Japanese Disney cover albums, we get some of the industry's top talent contributing their work to these excellent tributes. Nowhere is that more true than DISNEY AGE @ D_100 CAFE.

Since this is Remix Week, I have chosen a track off this album by YUKIHIRO FUKUTOMI, a DJ and Remixer who has been blessing clubs in Japan with his beats since 1990. Since then he has become a well recognized DJ, programmer, arranger, composer and producer. Fukutomi has taken I Wan'na Be Like You and has added his own touch. You'll hear the main vocals and many samples from the song, but the beat and much of the music has been added.

What really interests me with this style of music is the editing. I've taken a few courses in this and I find it quite hard. Fukutomi, who uses Pro Tools for his work, has sped up the tempo a bit, therefore having to edit every line of the song to fit this new tempo. Looping Baloo's scatting and the monkey's whistling is brilliant and my favourite part is when the classic song builds with the big brass fanfare behind it at the end and melds so well with the beats laid down by Fukutomi.