What do Godzilla, Buck Rogers and Twiki, Gloria Estefan, Prince, and the word “Booty” have in common?
This video above is the answer.
This is a song made after a Phillies NLCS game, late night, and drunk.
Concept was by Mike Ortiz. We pressed the buttons, I made the video, and made this miraculous concept a reality.
Things used:
Ableton 9 (too cheap to upgrade it) for the music. Arturia Keystep 37 (to play godzilla noises). Novation Launchpad Pro (to trigger the samples). PowerPoint to make the video.
In summary, “Bidi bidi bidi, booty booty booty, B-b-b-b-buck!”
I AM STILL getting over the passing of Burt Bacharach. (I know I know… GET OVER IT CHAD!!!)
This has always been one of my top Burt songs done over by Herb Alpert. Today I found that the original, which I love so much, he had redone in the past few years. It’s such a yummy song, that I like them both. Here they are for comparison.
This is the first time he did it. This is off my favorite Herb Alpert and the TJB album, SRO from 1966.
From Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, SRO (1966)
Here is the re-do from his 2016 album Human Nature.
From Herb Alpert, Human Nature (2016)
Which do you prefer? Vote below in this crappy old poll plug-in I’ve had in WordPress for a million years.
There are no words, probably because Hal David wrote most of them. Burt Bacharach had the ability to take the simple and complex aspects of music and roll them into an intoxicating sticky lump that you can’t stop whistling/hearing in your head. His quote: “Never be afraid of something you can whistle” holds true in most, if not all, of his music. For me, personally, it always makes me think of warm sunny days heading to the beach. I imagine it coming out of small transistor radio’s on a crowded Jersey shore in the 70’s. It makes me smile.
The modern day Mozart has left us.
My favorite Bacharach song will always be:
And this version of “Wives and Lovers” (the original) has to be the most dramatic, dynamic, complex, and catchy thing I’ve ever heard an orchestra do. I always play it very loud. The tempo changes are amazing. The ending always makes me smile. It shows Bacharach’s quirky side. Timeless. I will always be humbled by his genius.
I’ve always been a Bacharach fan. His music infects me like COVID. After 52 years, and I like to think I’ve been listening to music that long, it has come to my attention that I can safely select my favorite Burt Bacharach song.
It is KNOWING WHEN TO LEAVE
Dionne did it best with the lyrics.
The symphonic Burt one without the lyrics. Good one to test your speakers with.
And I have to include the “Karen” version. This one is special because it was never released. They did it as a medley with other Burt songs, but this is it ALONE which makes it wonderful.
It may be desperation or whatever, but I’ve decided to post more. DEAL!
I have become addicted to the MUZAK on the WeatherStar4000 software. This is the software that was used to do the local forecast hourly display on the Weather Channel. Somebody hacked this software and hosts it on a live stream on YouTube. I don’t know how or why they would do this, but I found the music to be such a mindless noise and kind of a flashback. I can recall sitting around during blizzards when this stuff played in the background.
I’ve taken to listening to this while working from home. Call me nuts or tasteless, but it just works.
I recorded the stream’s audio for 3 hours, and found the 2 hours where the loop stops and starts. It breaks into 33 tracks. I’ve done the track breaking and the labeling. Sorry I don’t know the titles or artists. I “Shazam”‘d them with my phone and nothing consistent comes up. So I named them how I felt they sounded.
The song titles are totally ridiculous because of this. You KNOW you wanna hear Nurt Nurt Nurt Nurt. It’s totally different from Nerp Nerp Na Nerp, and wholly unlike Ningningning Nahnah.
Please forgive. (And if you give me artist and title, I’ll fix appropriately).
NOTE: You may have to right click the link and select “Save content as..” or “Save target as…” because it’s a “spooky” .zip file. Trust me, it is virus free. I wore a mask!
Enjoy, and MOST OF ALL do not be ashamed to admit the power of MUZAK! Tracks 20, 31, and 33 are my favorites!
Wow! So much time has passed since the 2015 release Hozpitality-To Go. There has been a lot of moving around and acquisition of new noise making devices and volunteering of new noise making people.
As you know, Hozpitality is a collective. Anyone who wants to make sound and record may do so. Since moving the “Hozpitality Home Studio” around a lot, more people have come on board. They will be listed in the Personnel List below.
Track List:
Beach Week (4:16) This was a drum pattern recorded by Bush, keys by CeMeGo, and vocals by Gloria Snatch (now known as Eriyyka BaDont). Please do not miss the Beach Week video (which is the first music video for a Hozpitality song). The lyrics/vocals for the song were created after watching Brett Kavanaugh hearings. He still likes beer. Yeah well so do we all, but we don’t get to be a life long supreme court justice (you dick).
D and C Drone for DC (5:43) This was extracted from a long jam session (May 2019) between Derek and CeMeGo. Derek plays bass. Not sure about the drums. Keys and noise by CeMeGo. Probably first recorded use of Korg Minilogue XD (closer to the end).
Don’t Know What To Say (3:45) Bitchin’ Bob souls up a hit. Drums and 2 chord melody by Bush. Extra keys and augmentation by CeMeGo. This is a touching song, about hats, impaired vision, and lots of grumbled Joe Cocker styled wailing.
Exceptional (5:33) A jam session created in April of 2017, chopped up, and repositioned by Bitchin’ Bob and CeMeGo. The Novation Launchpad was heavily abused for the drum pattern.
Epipen (2:33) A lounge statement calling out Big Pharma. The skyrocketing price of Epipens used to ward off an allergic reaction causes us to do a timely lounge piece. Gloria Snatch on vocals and Randy Glands on keys.
Guest Parking (with CHOB) (10:02) The voice sample is audio from an instructional video explaining how to park your car in a parking lot and remember where you parked (very ridiculous). There is also a dramatic reading of the guest parking rules for a certain overpriced apartment community in North Bethesda, MD.
The Tootsie Throwdown (4:34) Derek plays bass and croons about Tootsie (the cat). What else do we know? Right?
High Mystic Water Rhythms (5:27) This is not the first time CeMeGo has stolen drum sounds from the band Rush. This is a mash up of drum samples from Rush songs “High Water” and “Mystic Rhythms”. This was one of the first experiments with the Novation Launchpad.
Staying Up Late To Make Some Beats Tonight (But You’re Not Alone) (4:10) Instruments, vocoder, and junk by CeMeGo. Yet another stolen traffic report sample from WTOP radio.
Exceptional (Bangin Remix) (4:35) The heavy rocking mid section of the track Exceptional had us dancing around so hard, we had to jam on it. This is what happened.
Tools used: Ableton Live 9 Suite (too cheap to upgrade to 10!) A bunch of free .VST files from the Internet Adobe Audition (too useful unfortunately!) Fender Aerodyne Bass Korg Electribe Sampler 2 Korg Kaossilator Pro Korg Mini-KP (red box) Korg MicroKorg (lots of stuff and vocoder) Korg Minilogue XD (still new). Korg Volca(s) (Bass, Beats, and Keys) Novation Launchpad
Scott Walker (the singer not the politician) is one of my favorite musicians. He passed away yesterday (March 25, 2019) to very little fanfare. This is typical for my musical taste. The people I laud as ground breaking and genre bending get relegated to the small print in most websites. The people that they have influenced get the big headlines. If you don’t know who Scott Walker is, click here.
Scott Walker’s music has had an influence on my taste and music production experience. He comes off as smug and arrogant but he makes a lot of sense. Most know of my frustration with the overrated deification of singers in modern music. It is not to say that there is no talent required to be a singer, it is just that there is too much emphasis on the human voice as an instrument in modern “pop” music. I captured an interview snippet of him talking about what it is like to work with singers. I COULDN’T AGREE MORE.
Scott Walker on singers
Added the video because I love the song. Listen in headphones or speakers with vast separation.
This is my second solo album. This collects everything I’ve done throughout the “year of personal hell” known as 2017. This collection includes use of the Novation Launchpad. I really tried to work more with phrasing (probably too much) where everything is more structured and looped. This probably makes things more cold and clinical, but you have to learn sometime. There is one long track that was a jam session with little planning (Track 13-Air Head Full of Fluff). Everything else was looped, overdubbed, or (vaguely) planned with soloing on top. Some tracks were never posted on this blog (marked with an *). This, of course, is to gyp listeners into downloading an album of tracks to hear 3 for the first time. Here’s the run down/liner notes.
Waiting on Hold for Bob* (1:05) This was literally slapped together while waiting on hold with Bob who was talking with his mom on the other line (as usual). One piano loop and pointlessly pounding away in real time over top.
For Another Day (4:07) I am most proud of this sound for the big “Trevor Horn sounding” bridge in the middle. Yes, for you local folks, that is an audio sample of the WTOP traffic report for DC mixed in there. Further write up located here.
Bright and Fast* (5:23) Every type of metallic percussion (that I liked) was used to make loops on this one including glockenspiels, xylophones, vibraphones, and marimbas. I had a lot of fun programming the drum patterns. I probably went a little overboard with most of it.
Air Head Full of Fluff (12:52) This is the long jam session. Write up located here.
The Warfare* (3:50) This is the last track to be made for this album. It started on Veterans Day 2017. I finished it today (Dec 23, 2017). The spoken samples are a half speed recording of Jim Bakker talking about how people are trying to kill him because he’s “preaching the word of God”. I think it’s because he’s a felon manipulating the minds of the poor and desperate people who tune into his show to be exposed to horrific fears of a false prophecy. Either way, he is fun to audibly abuse. He sounds drunk at half speed.
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