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Sixth Release (Third EP) from Hozpitality!!!

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Music that had to be made… and QUICKLY (as usual, the speed of creativity being a major ingredient to the Hozpitality formula). (Yes, that is dangerously tan Justin Bieber flipping off Mitt Romney… Thank you!)

Hozpitality-We're Testin Shit EP

This release is so small, we have placed the tracks below for instant streaming.

Track 1 – Romney Plan(0:38)

Lyrics:
Now if you live in America, you know this next song,
Tap it, tap it in thats a zinger,
And tell me how to poke it on Tuesday,
Dang no one’s happy.

Special shout out to Nu Shooz.

Track 2 – Passyunk Sweat Lodge(2:05)

Just passin the mic around. An urban native American feel.

Track 3 – CeMeGo MsNeebo Alchemist Let It Flow(Tatooine)(3:11)

A rap song… with teeth. Blow for blow with Alchemist and MsNeebo (and robot voice thing).

Track 4 – I Have No Idea(1:23)

Passin the mic around again. Featuring Bitchin Bob as beat box extraordinaire.

Tools used:

  • Korg Kaossilator
  • Korg Kaossilator Pro
  • Korg Mini-KP
  • Sony Acid Loops (crash tastic (awwwww))
  • Jade Garden Chinese
  • Coffee

Voices by:

Click here to download the album in a zip file with cover art (7 megs).**

** We still don’t make money off of this crap. We do it for pleasure! The best compensation would be a comment or review right here on this blog again. Hozpitality thanks YOU (and your Romney Plan)!

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I cant play keyboard! Maybe Ableton will help…

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Dabbling around with Ableton Live and the Korg MicroKey 37.

Whole lotta nonsense!

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DEBUT Release from Hozpitality Ambient Spin-Off: CHOB!

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CHOB = Chad and Bob.  

C H O B

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:

  1. Egyptian Forward (3:23)
  2. From The Treetop (7:49)
  3. Pur Heaven (4:37)
  4. Dinosaur Suite (6:29)
  5. 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).

NEW! 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!

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Fifth Release from Hozpitality!!

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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”.

Hozpitality-Toddler Sized Shark Cage-Front Cover

Hozpitality-Toddler Sized Shark Cage-Back Cover

The creative process involved in this album caused laughter to tears. Enjoy!

Track List:

  1. Robots First Shot(Don’t Be A Douchebag) (1:30)
  2. Circus Clown (3:14)
  3. Shredded Concrete (2:29)
  4. blast OFF (1:22)
  5. Ode To Stink Bugs (1:16)
  6. Take Home A Drunk (2:12)
  7. Angry Hot Dog with Sammy (0:53)
  8. Another (2:10)
  9. I Can Still Hear Myself (3:47)
  10. Pre Made Toast (2:32)
  11. Sprint Dicks Claimer (3:35)
  12. No Commercials on My TV (5:38)
  13. Screamin Swing (2:32)
  14. 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).

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This is a test!!!

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I can still hear myself…

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Kaossilator Pro + New Microphone = Robots First Shot

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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.

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Kaossilator PRO Glow!

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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!

Kaossilator Pro

Check it out:


 

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Fourth Release (Second EP) from Hozpitality!!!

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This is a short EP put out as a fourth release showing off the latest advances in the Hozpitality musicality! Lovingly slapped together for your pleasure in Absence of A Supermoon!!

Hozpitality-Absence of A Supermoon

A cobbling together of familial references, bleep bloop noises, and atmospheres to tweak your “something”.

Track list:

  1. Requiem for Dick Clark (0:59)
    An ending song for good old, scandalous, payola, bribe takin, corrupt rich guy “Strokey Face”.
  2. You Can Put Soaps In There(1:48)
    She’s fillin’ it with soaps in ‘nere.  Get me one he’ll pay ya!
  3. Distorted Doodle(1:02)
    Denise and CeMeGo pouring it on the busy boxes.  Really breaks up the kitchen.
  4. Left Turn At Venus(3:18)
    Sometimes, to get to the Expressway to Uranus, you need to make a Left Turn at Venus (because there’s no exits).
  5. Cute Accident(2:35)
    Just be careful you don’t drive over the curb.  It’s so cute, I love it!
  6. Absence of A Supermoon(2:32)
    For your viewing pleasure when it’s too damn cloudy to see the moon.

Tools used (with links):

Click here to download a .zip file of the album in .mp3 format including cover art. (12 megs)**

** We don’t make money off of this crap.  We do it for fun!  The best compensation would be a comment or review right here on this blog.  Hozpitality thanks YOU (and your Supermoon)!

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Dick is Dead (His Face is Frozen)

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Another Hozpitality hit!

Requiem for Dick Clark. BEHOLD!

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Why Not Try Every Possibility?

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Listen what happened to New Order (what i like to call “Norder”)….