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WMOM: Music of Magnesia
DEBUT Release from Hozpitality Ambient Spin-Off: CHOB!
CHOB = Chad and Bob.
I had this idea, which came from the first track on this album, to create more music that sounds like the following:
- Ambient
- Space
- Chill
- New Age
- Lullaby Channel
- Massage music
- Sound Collage
- “Hold that chord and wait for a record contract”
- and Atmosphere
Bob and I have many years of exposure to this type of music and thoroughly enjoy it as a unique and special artform. We wanted to make some music that didn’t start from or required a rhythm section. To be honest, there are a few drum tracks on this album, but they were intentionally moved to the back of the mix to make room for the sonic palette on display for these tracks. There is no mistaking the quality of the sounds in the musical toys/instruments we use, and we wanted to have fun putting these on display a little more.
So there are no vocals/lyrics, and there’s not a lot of “hot driving dance beats”. This is more of an exploration of the sonic “colour” in our heads and our devices. The first track, “Egyptian Forward”, was the inspiration to start this journey. To make a bookend, a portion of “Egyptian Forward” was segmented and shortened. The left channel of this track was reversed while the right side moves in a forward direction, hence the title “Egyptian Crossing”. (I personally loved the original track so much I thought it sounded good backwards too!)
Never enough credit goes to Bitchin Bob for editing genius, insight/perspective, and laughs o’plenty. I swear we both learn more about the tools of this trade every time we do this stuff. Learning has never been so much fun!
Track list:
- Egyptian Forward (3:23)
- From The Treetop (7:49)
- Pur Heaven (4:37)
- Dinosaur Suite (6:29)
- Egyptian Crossing (1:28)
Tools used:
- Korg Kaossilator Pro
- Korg Kaossilator
- Korg Mini-KP
- Adobe Audition (“What? Are we crashing now?”)
Click here to download a .zip file of the album in .mp3 format including cover art. (24 megs)**
** You can’t charge money for this much fun, and it truly is fun making this stuff. As always, the best compensation for this effort would be any sort of comment left here on this blog. CHOB thanks YOU (because your comments are Pur Heaven).
BIG NEWS! Hozpitality fans have a reason to live. The follow up to Hozpitality’s 5th album Toddler Sized Shark Cage is coming SOON! REMAIN CALM!
Gotta Keep On Moving…Or I’ll Die….
Happy Birthday Bryan Ferry. You consumed my youth…now you consume my middle age…
Wonder if his 67 year old ass can still pull this off:
DAILY PRESCRIPTION !
Politics pissin you off? The rape and pillage of the weak and suffering? Cant take it? Don’t know what to do?
Play this song REALLY LOUD until you laugh your ass off. Play it REALLY loud and see if you can piss anyone off with it!
Somehow it makes me feel better…
Fifth Release from Hozpitality!!
This was a collaborative effort, which is the cornerstone of Hozpitality, to incorporate new creative techniques with a few new gadgets. Technology is a wonderful thing, great (and somewhat silly) minds make technology better. Once again, a lovingly slapped together assemblage of “heightened musical vignettes”.
The creative process involved in this album caused laughter to tears. Enjoy!
Track List:
- Robots First Shot(Don’t Be A Douchebag) (1:30)
- Circus Clown (3:14)
- Shredded Concrete (2:29)
- blast OFF (1:22)
- Ode To Stink Bugs (1:16)
- Take Home A Drunk (2:12)
- Angry Hot Dog with Sammy (0:53)
- Another (2:10)
- I Can Still Hear Myself (3:47)
- Pre Made Toast (2:32)
- Sprint Dicks Claimer (3:35)
- No Commercials on My TV (5:38)
- Screamin Swing (2:32)
- Toddler Sized Shark Cage (3:43)
Tools used:
- Symphony of Korg Monotrons
- Korg Koassilator Pro
- Korg Kaossilator
- Korg Mini-KP
- Sony Acid Loops (crash tastic)
- Adobe Audition (software that hates your sound card)
- Voice from Alison (on Ode to Stink Bugs)
Click here to download a .zip file of the album in .mp3 format including cover art. (37 megs)**
** Still aint makin money off this crap. Still more fun than money can buy to make it. Once again, the best compensation for this effort would be any sort of comment left here on this blog. Hozpitality thanks YOU (and your Pre Made Toast).
Kaossilator Pro + New Microphone = Robots First Shot
Got a nifty $20 mic for the Kaossilator Pro. That means I can now use the 15 Vocoder options on the thing. This was my first shot at it. Took me about 1 hour to make.
The lyrics are:
Hozpitality (x8)
Dont be a douche bag cause all people are douche bags.
You can suck my balls and kiss my ass right now.
Sorry it was the only thing I could come up with lyrically.
Kaossilator PRO Glow!
Yes! Another busy box! This is mega ultra stacked with sounds and gadgets. This is just like the yellow one, only you can have 4 (not just 1) stacks of loops and you can actually save them/export them without recording them live. In this case, I recorded 6 loops (with varying amounts of things stacked in each) and exported them as wav files (via the USB connector from the KPro) and slapped them into Acid Loops. I changed the key on half of them from E to C, then laid them out in a quick and dirty ABACAB layout (I didn’t wanna spend all day on it).
Needless to say, this is a MUCH simpler way to make music. I’m sure Bob will rate this like I’m going for a top 10 blockbuster hit, but it is just an initial experiment to get a sample of it on the blog. The phasing and volume effects were added in Acid. Stay tuned for more!
Check it out:
New theme song… Hell, NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM!
Yay! More music I’m ape shit about that nobody cares about (except for a few). Mike Keneally just finished his co written album with Andy Partridge (from XTC). They just put a video out for one of the songs. Once again, I love music that conveys misery and loss but still seems upbeat (explains my love for Fleetwood Mac too)! No better status report for me could be put to music! I think this could be a testament for everyone struggling through the joke/lie known as “The American Dream”. Listen to the lyrics. They’re awesome!
NOTE: Wont be at the superbowl half time show, Wont be doing a stadium concert, Wont be on American Idol/Glee/Dancing with the Stars, Wont be on the radio. You got it here! So suffer! HAHAHAHA!
A Burt Bacharach Song Missing from Chad’s Collection…
Yeah, its from the “Denise Deep Soul Collection.” He wrote it for Ms Blige…but its got Burt all over it. I actually went to a wedding YEARS ago (yes, a wedding of color) in which the bride was 2 hours late…and when she did show up, she walked in singing this…(not as good as Mary, but it was Burt’s music)
Enjoy!
Great Website Alert!!!
I’ve been killing myself with the Carpenters, Hugo Montenegro, Ennio Morricone, Herb & the TJB, and Burt Bacharach lately. (I think its the warmer weather that makes me go this way, as well and my age). I found these sites kick ass and feed the need (just click the logo’s to open in a new window).
Also have been really overplaying a lot Burt Bacharach (once again the warm weather could be the influence here). I’ve been spending too much time on his homepage humorously called “A House is Not A Homepage”. It’s worth a look just to see the cheesy picture of him doing his best Isaac from the Love Boat pose.
And of course, this trip down easy listening grandma music wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the legendary A&M Corner website.
