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Ninth Release from Hozpitality! Beach Week

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Hozpitality - Beach Week

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:

  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. The Tootsie Throwdown (4:34)
    Derek plays bass and croons about Tootsie (the cat). What else do we know? Right?
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.

Personnel:

Bitchin Bob: Words, Crooning, Synth, Percussion, Drums, Ideas
Bush: Drums and chord ideas
CeMeGo (Randy Glands): Vocoder, Synth, Keys, Bass Gtr, Drums, Audio Shenanigans
Derek: Bass Gtr, Voice, Drums
MsNeeBo (Eriyyka BaDont, Gloria Snatch): Vocals, Lyrics, Insane Laughter
Tootsie: Throwdown.

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

Click here to download the album in a zip file with cover art (48megs).

As always, we aren’t getting rich on this, so comments and opinions of this are welcomed/encouraged on this blog.

Hozpitality thanks you and wishes you a Happy Beach Week.

CHOB, Cool stuff, Grinds My Gears, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio, WMOM

R.I.P. Scott Walker

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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.

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Hozpitality-Beachweek

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The latest hit from Hozpitality.  Torn from the pages of the current headlines…

“The haunting vocals are superb. Reminiscent of Tore My Anus.”
-Nguyen Chaney

 


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Staying Up Late To Make Some Beats Tonight (But Yer Not Alone)

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This track started about 4 months ago with just some drum loops I programmed. I stumbled over it this evening at 9pm and I stayed at it till 2am until I finally had enough. I actually played some relatively bad bass guitar on this. I think I drowned it out with other bass lines so you cant tell how bad I am.

The WTOP traffic report was thrown in as a distraction. As always, I found a phrase or two that sounds funny when trimmed and repeated. This adds to the pointless lyrics.

Here’s what I used:
Ableton Live (of course)
Addictive Keys Plug-in (for the piano)
Bass Guitar
Korg Kaossilator Pro (for the crazy drum solo bridge)
Korg MicroKorg (sounds and vocoder)
WTOP Traffic Report

CHOB, Cool stuff, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio

sntjab ibaw

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Just  U S E   Y O U R   H E A D P H O N E S !

This is something I did completely live with no software synths, editing, or processing done afterwards…  I just hit record and started making noises.

Volca bass, beats, and keys
Kaossilator Pro
MicroKorg
Korg Mini-KP (red box)

I was just running around the table making noises for 32 minutes.  If you don’t make it through all 32 minutes, I wont be hurt.

This is just how I’m doing my time.  I’ll probably mince this up and use it somewhere..  in teeny weeny pieces.

By the way, sntjab ibaw means:
“simply needed to jam a bit, its been a while”

CHOB, Cool stuff, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio, WMOM

CeMeGo… Another Round (2nd Solo Album)

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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Crunch Numbers (2:47) Write up located here.
  4. 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.
  5. Get it Right (2:27) Write up located here.
  6. Atmosthing (4:10) Write up located here.
  7. Holdsworthian (4:35) Write up located here.  (RIP Allan Holdsworth).
  8. Phone Waves (3:59) Write up located here.
  9. Pianosplosion (4:43) Write up located here.
  10. Political Optics (I Don’t Apologize For It) (3:37) Write up located here.
  11. No Driver No Problem (3:35) Write up located here.
  12. Volcanoid (5:18) Write up located here.
  13. Air Head Full of Fluff (12:52) This is the long jam session.  Write up located here.
  14. 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.

Here’s the 59 meg zip file of all the tracks and the cover!  Enjoy!

As always, maximum enjoyment can be achieved by listening in a car or in headphones.

FYI:  The first solo album “Cemego… It Alone” can be found here.

And just for a peek into my sordid life, here’s a picture of the stuff that makes all this magic possible.

The rig

CHOB, Cool stuff, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio

4 Minutes of Phone Ambience

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Had the start of this laying around on the hard drive for months. It was improvised with no clicks (BPM setting). The phone beep/rhythm was done on the Kaossilator pro first live with fingers (no real looping). The strings were made with the MicroKorg. I added the upright bass, some “angelic” type synth vamp and, one of my favorite things, far away piano. Put a few little phasing effects on a few things (including the upright bass) so it travels around the speakers. Suddenly it was BOOM! MAGIC!

Hope you enjoy and it puts you in another place.

CHOB, Cool stuff, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio

Guest Parking (with CHOB)

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Nice parking, man!!!

Here’s a song for something we all know.  It’s a  song about parking, traffic, and driving.  Bob doesn’t know what an Oxford comma is but he will learn someday.  Maybe after 10 minutes of listening to Guest Parking?  Maybe you can learn something toe?

Hope you like it.  Use headphones!

NEW!Completely jive and pointless lyrics below!NEW!

Now the next step is picking a spot for parking
So lets pick a spot first
Lets say we want to park here
So whatever spot you pick for parking
You want to count that spot as number
ONE.
Then you drive forward to the next spot
And count that spot as number
TWO.
Then you drive up one more spot
And count that spot as number
THREE.
Don’t worry I’m not gonna take you back to kindergarten
And make you count up to
HUNDRED.
Fa fa fa fa…
After printing this parking permit
please make sure it is displayed
in the front dashboard
of your guest vehicle.
All guest parking is
located on the 4th floor
marked with “visitor”.
Guests that park in any other spaces
may be towed.
If you need to make changes to
your reservation or
you have any questions
please contact ussssss.
Parking is at your own
risk.
Management is not
responsible
For theft or damage to
vehicle.
Valid for 24 hours
only.
All guest parking is located
on the 4th floor
and marked with “visitor.”
Guests that park in any other spaces
may be
towed.
May be
towed.
For now we’ll stop
HERE.

CHOB, Cool stuff, Hozpitality, Music Sound Noise Audio, WMOM

Volcanoid

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Korg Volca Bass, Keys, & Beats

I was in the mood to mess with my much neglected Korg Volca Bass, Keys & Beats synthesizer/sequencers. I needed more analog in my life I guess. So I did this stupid mindless jam on the Volcas then augmented it with some MicroKorg solos and some Ableton MIDI sounds. I even looped some MicroKorg into the Korg Kaossilator. If all this sounds confusing, it is probably because it was. The whole thing is a mess but it was fun to do. This was done at 110 bpm (like that matters).

Enjoy Volcanoid !!!
(as always this is best in headphones or in a car).