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RECORDS
	Over the past 15 years red door’s composers have been creating great asian inspired music. Our music is mainly a mix of east west, using asian and western instruments with a mix of styles and rhythms . You could also say the we create soundscapes mainly ambient asian chill and some downbeat atmospheric textures. Ian has done some fantastic remixes for international artists. The REMIX process			Audio excerpts: 1. China Girl Cine mix 2. China Girl Dance mix 3. Ascension 4. He saw her there 5. In love with God 6. Let lovers 7. Luna 8. Syair Composer's : Ian Parkinson Dave Packer Sound Designer : Ian Parkinson
	Cui Jian / Michael Learns to Rock - "Dim Sum Bomb" remix.
	Called the "Dim Sum Bomb Remix," Hong Kong-based songwriter, arranger and producer Ian Parkinson, working with Hans Ebert, former Executive Producer with EMI South East Asia, has married the track, "I Have Nothing," an original Mandarin recording released by Cui Jian in the Eighties and which has become something of a "national anthem" in China with a new English version of the song by MLTR and called "I Walk This Road Alone" plus a Parkinson riff that takes the track to a completely new space in time. The end result is a nine-minute "Trip Out" full of distortion, machine-gun-fire guitar and harmonica breaks and a healthy dose of post-nirvana psychedelia. "The idea for the mash-up or Remix or whatever it now is came from Hans," explains Parkinson. "I worked on it without any split parts and with the first version featuring the Cui Jian and MLTR tracks going through quite a few changes as we knew we had created something different and just wanted to push the creative envelope further with input from Hans who is very familiar with marrying the music of Asia with the music of International acts."
	David Bowie's - "China Girl" remix.
	He created a really cool chilled out mix, which he ended up calling the Cinemix because we could imagine it in a movie, set in the mountains of China. It had a very simple arrangement of Bowie's vocal, Erhu (chinese violin) and synth pad, and light Chinese percussion. Then Ian took some of the elements from the Cinemix, and elaborated on them with upbeat rhythms and hypnotic arpeggiators etc. creating what's sure to become a classic Club mix. when Bowie himself heard the tracks, he claimed "these are some of the coolest remixes anyone has ever done for me.
	Dave Stewart’s - “Falling in love with God”
	Ian took 2 basic elements of his tracks (guitar and Rhodes riff) and added Erhu, rhythm, strings, tabla, ethnic Chinese vocals, rolling Piano, Malay flutes and chanting. This created a totally new feel from the original, putting in an Asian shamanic dance feel. Dave's reaction was simply, "it's beautiful".
	Dave Stewart’s - “Let Lovers”
	Ian took the main riff of the Mandalin and molded into a kind of a fire dance, with indian tabla, flutes. The dance floor mix “hardcore lovers” took it up to a new level, with a hard pumping 4 to the floor rhythm and spacey licks and pads, topped with the original piano octaves.
	Laura Fygi’s - “He saw her there ”
	Laura loved Ian's remix of her "she dances there". Again he took a straight bossa style track, and twisted it into a really chilled, laid back, atmospheric, seductive smokey nightclub dream sequence.
	Alessandro Safina - “Luna”
	He asked Ian to remix one of his tracks "Luna" from his latest album and transformed it from an Opera into a modern opera dance track with some industrial dub in the chorus.
	Camilia - “syair”
	The popular artist in Malaysia. When Ian heard the poem that she sang, he immediately ran into the studio and got to work on some great Asian influenced rhythms and flute solo's. The "male" vocal in the track is actually Camilia's own voice pitched down an octave to add another flavour.