In 1990, the New Zealand rock band Push Push recorded the song "Euphoric Plunder In Bliss” for their debut gold album, “A Trillion Shades of Happy”. The song remained a fan favorite ever since its 1992 release, and when the band reunited decades later for new shows and new material, they wanted to rework the song for a new release.
The problem was the one most legacy recordings run into: the original recording only existed in a full mix. The vocal and the guitar intro were bound together with everything else on the tape, with no separate stems to build from. Re-recording from scratch would mean losing the original take entirely.
Andy Wilson, guitarist and producer for Push Push and the A&R Director of music licensing company Melodie, turned to AudioShake’s instrument and vocal stem separation technology. With AudioShake, Push Push separated the original 1990 vocal and guitar intro directly out of the mixed recording, then rebuilt the song around those isolated parts, bringing a 35-year-old performance into a version recorded in 2025: "E.P.B (Clutching at the Sky)."
For artists and rights holders sitting on older catalogs, stem separation reopens recordings that were effectively locked:
- Isolate original vocals or instruments from a finished mix for a remix or re-recording
- Preserve a specific original performance while rebuilding the track around it
- Create stems for spatial audio, sync, or sampling where none exist
- Bring archival recordings back into modern release and distribution
