Pet Shop Boys West End Girls - Extended Mix instrumental recreation

Описание: In celebration of 40 years since the Stephen Hague version of the single was released into the UK charts, I’ve updated my instrumental recreation of the Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls. This version follows roughly the same format as my 2013 version (I retrieved the midi file from an old drive) but all audio tracks are fully re-recorded.

The video is split into two parts, with the first half being the full track and the second part being a breakdown of the tracks and instruments / sounds used.

The 1985 version was recorded in Advision Studios in London, which I believe had an SSL 4000E at the time, and so I have used SSL’s 4KE plugin on each channel of the mix. All instruments and most of the effects used are hardware, with the instruments being the same or similar to those used on the record (including heavy use of the Emulator II). Mixing was done in Cubase 14 / SSL 360, with UAD plug-ins to complement the hardware.

For those interested, the excellent mu:zines site has a blog article written about this track (https://www.muzines.co.uk/blog/sound-...) which includes the Recording World article from early 1986 in which the mix engineer David Jacob, went into some detail about the track. The blog also contains excerpts of the “traffic noise” recorded out of the window of Advision that features in the intro on the 7” single, which has been incorporated into this version.

Enjoy!