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WMOM: Music of Magnesia

Hozpitality 2015 Explosion!!!

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Some very hot molten tracks were laid down tonight!!!

Brian and I laid down some shit with:

  • his phone app, Caustic
  • Korg Electribe Sampler
  • Korg Kaossilator Pro
  • Korg MiniKP (red box)

Here’s the hot sexy results.

Try not to think you are in a Baretta chase scene with this one called “Crystal Shit”:

This is a long ride, but worth it for the ending.

Leave comments and prepare ideas. Hozpitality’s new album is coming at you like an electronic tsunami!!!!!!

A Hozpitality Prog Rock “In-Joke”…

“Aren’t they all?!”

So, I was messing around tonight after re-re-reinstalling my ableton 9 pro suite deluxe with wings. I think I got it installed now (finally).  I thought i’d noodle around with a weird noise or two and make a mess.

I call this masterpiece (at 43 seconds) “Bruford Gives Up”.

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Bill Bruford Plays a Dream Cheeky Drum Set

It brings to mind Bruford’s playing in King Crimsons “Requiem”.   Also, it has smacks of the “dream cheeky orgasm” drum solo.

Dream Cheeky Drum Set
Dream Cheeky Drum Set

But I learned a pinch about Ableton 9 Live Pro Studio Ultra Deluxe Full Blown Suck You Dry version®.

Just preppin for the arrival of the Electribe Sampler… (its comin dammit! they billed me already!)

Korg Electribe Sampler 2
Korg Electribe Sampler 2

Stupidly fun and shit’s GOTTA get better than this!

Song of The Week or Moment (Roy Ayers-The Freaky Deaky)

I would just like to say, we get an excellent bargain here.

Not ONLY do we get THE freaky deaky …

BUT ALSO…

THE fonky donkey..

I mean, what more could you ask for? How about a poll?

Which really does it for ya?

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Can you imagine?

In the words of Big Uncle Joe Biden, “This is a very big fuckin deal, right here.”

Note: The wonderful stylish bathrobe hallway bead outfit Mr. Roy Ayers is sportin. Man is ALL CLASS! Makes Jay-Z look like cheap breakfast cereal.

R.I.P. Chris Rainbow

Chris Rainbow (aka Chris Harley), one of my favorite singer/song writer/producers, passed away February 26, 2015. Known as a “one man beach boys”, you can hear why in his vocal production.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Rainbow

Prog Rock Mag announcment

He sang in many of my favorite Alan Parsons Project songs.

I liked his solo stuff the best though.

This one hurts folks. May take a while for me to heal this. Sad day for my taste.

UPDATE:
This website provided a few extra tracks on youtube that I did not have.  They have promptly been ripped (as they aren’t available anywhere else).

http://chrisrainbowmemorabilia.blogspot.co.uk/

This serves as a well done memorial site.

New Music That Will Never Get A Grammy

because it’s too damn good! Can’t stop playing this… Enjoy 10 minutes of incredible music. Crank it up! Hurry before youtube takes it down. (From Steven Wilson’s new album Hand Cannot Erase. It’ll be out in the US in a few days!)

then follow it with this one and be completely FLOORED. I teared up and got goosebumps… Man I love good music. NO GRAMMY FOR THIS GUY FOR SURE!

Hall of The Titan Mountain Thing

Slot Machine Noise Malfunction + Effects = Curiousity

I was playing my stupid Jackpot Party Casino game on my phone. I was winning big.  When you win big in a slot machine, the music plays a repetitive arpeggio or loop while it totals (or dramatically counts up) your winnings.   For some reason when I won on this slot machine, the “count your money up” loop got stuck on my phone.

Before the app crashed, I plugged my phone into the Korg Kaoss Pad (aka the red box) and tortured the loop with effects.

Put this in your headphones and check it out! Play it loud! Try to identify all the different effects going on. Half the time, its not even altering an audio source. The red box snatches up a sample and lets you torture it in mid-air. It’s TOO POWERFUL!!! 🙂

Knob Twiddler of The Year: Daniel Lanois

For those who don’t know who Daniel Lanois is, let’s just say he produced and made U2 famous, worked a ton with Brian Eno, produced stuff for Bob Dylan, and host of other artists that really have nothing in common with each other.  This guy goes on CeMeGo’s top 10 music producers list (up there with people such as Brian Eno, Trevor Horn, Todd Rundgren, etc).  With his latest album, he decided to play the studio like an instrument.  Obviously this needs a very good rhythm section, which he definitely has here.  The sounds he is generating are pre recorded and some are sampled in the moment (from the drum or the bass) and then everything is oscillated manipulated and extrapolated.  🙂   This, of course, is right up my alley.

As always, crank it!