This shit right here!
This shit RIGHT HERE?
YES! DIS SHIT RIGHT HERE!!!
CRANK DIS SHIT!!!
This shit right here!
This shit RIGHT HERE?
YES! DIS SHIT RIGHT HERE!!!
CRANK DIS SHIT!!!
If you are old enough you will remember this theme. I mixed it together with really bad audio bits from youtube. The opening theme is sewn up with the ending synthesizer funky theme. As a “bonus” (I guess) it reprises the opening at the end.
I just heard this out of the blue and remembered how funky it was. Crank dat shit (in the middle at least).
Below are two images from our stupid media. Am I the only one that can see an obvious problem here? I think both races are to blame. BOTH!!! NO RACE is innocent of this trend. The question is WHY?!
Allison sent me this meme that I think applies to this issue very well. I think racism will die if we all just admit this..
It can’t get much better than this at this point. This was seriously considered as a viable song, then we just gave up and moved the BPM up to 300 just to see how it sounded. We went to IHOP for breakfast at 4pm and came back and finished this. I blame IHOP !!
Starring:
This is a song played on all black keys. I wanted to work a little harder on creating with the MicroKorg and Kaossilator alone.
There are still some minor time issues, but HOLY CRAP THE SOUNDS ON THE mICROkORG ARE AWESOME. So many presets and this is with little to no variation of these stock presets. The quality and variety of the sounds are amazing. I went through as many as I could.
Geek Notes:
Note: This is terribly long (12 minutes and 23 seconds)… bump it around if you get bored. I think the last 2 or 3 minutes sound the best (thanks to a bent, reverb’d, and delayed string chord I liked and it notably ends in this). There’s a really loud over-modulated bass bit in the middle thats hilarious and may destroy your speakers.
Once again, no sense of time or self control. This is just too much fun to make! I couldn’t stop myself. 🙂
This is a bit I made called “Fugue You”. Let us now define the “Fugue”. There are two definitions. First one musical, the second one psychiatric.
Either of these definitions seem appropriate. I thought the image above suited the musical concept the best. At least this is how I felt while performing it, with middle fingers everywhere.
There is a four note simple melody that was banging around my head from The New Deal song Navidrome. I reproduced this as best I could on the Volca Bass (at the very beginning), then just built crap on top of it. The final turned out to be 10 and some minutes (originally 12… I deleted some off the top before I was done).
Geek Notes (All are Korg products unless noted):
Let’s play the game, “see if you can hear Chad screw up in 10.5 minutes”.
“Did you hear it?”
“I HEARD IT!”
“All right Janet!”
This was in the “News You May Not Need” section of The Mike O’Meara Show on May 25, 2016. I hope it’s OK to post a clip like this but I just had to because I spit up my soda at the end.
I’ve been listening and subscribing to this show for years and I’m going to start plugging it more with my own clips here since I don’t use bookface.
Since I did the (Overmodulated) Jamola Number 3 yesterday and left out the Volca Beats, I thought I would do one real quick INCLUDING the Volca Beats.
Here’s a bit called Volca Waves. It started as an atmospheric “hearts of space” thing and then I decided to put the driving Kaossilator studio drums in the middle. I admit everything is a little “make it up as you go”. Lately I haven’t been really arranging anything. I’ve been striving to do things without any arrangement and just spew it out live. This was the reason for the little errors throughout. I have been trying to learn the “one man band live experience” by playing everything live in real time with little to no preparation. There are some things done ahead of time. Obviously the sequences and SOME selection of sounds are done in advance of pressing the record button. I have literally been writing MicroKorg presets I like on scrap paper to remember them. But I will admit, that a lot of times, I start swaying in time and stabbing a setting with my finger and biting my lip as I hit a key. Results can be bad, some can be good. You, the listener, get to hear BOTH the good and the bad which is my gift to you.
Either way here are the geek notes:
Hope you find it interesting.
PS Thanks to those who bother to comment. It means a lot and it makes having this blog worthwhile. I dont want to use facebook for this, because if one of these little bits IS really good, I would prefer to own the rights to it (which wouldn’t be the case if I posted them to facebook).