Check out these busy boxes. Each at $150.00 a piece. I remember when technology like this was $700-1000 … they sound really cooooooool…
I love how MIDI cables (which used to have a bunch of pins in cable collar) are now about the same as a mini 1/8th inch headphone jack. This technology just gets better everyday!
I have decided to start recording my potential job “Whoppertunities®”.
This is the first of hopefully many audio bits of recruiters calling me with job opportunities. Essentially, they are the people who will be representing me to my future dream employer. I suppose this IS the best person to do that. (Sigh). Odds are, well, I’m still looking for work….
Our first contestant in this series needs some serious slowing down or something. I like how long it takes her to find my name on the prostitute du jour list.
Here she is a little slower. Try not to laugh, I laughed it all out!
And, just to show I care, here she is SLOW but with a funky beat for no particular reason.
More to come… Get all excited! Any ideas, or comments? I’m all in!
Front Cover for Hozpitality-Tapestry of Agony
Back Cover for Hozpitality-Tapestry of Agony
Track List:
1. BPE (0:13)
2. Electric Spoon (1:42)
3. Guinea Fest 2013 (2:42)
4. B6FEA109D(elephant hair) (2:02)
5. New Weapon For Crowd Control (1:04)
6. Montage (2:33)
7. Lunar Trampoline (8:30)
8. Menthol Cigarette Voice (0:22)
9. Is It Art at 296 bpm (4:56)
10. DA NA NA (2:28)
11. Day Glo Sun Visor (5:14)
12. Benevolent Synergy (3:05)
13. Momentary Slapping of the CHOB Variety (3:19)
14. Insert Money Now (0:49)
15. Don’t Eat Cake (2:38)
16. Caffeinated (2:26)
17. Piano Bubbles (1:45)
18. Hippy Sammys Jungle Beat (1:27)
19. Working Mans Uterus (2:35)
20. Wired Crossing (3:27)
21. Jungle Sammys Hippy Beat (1:10)
22. Electric Fork (0:55)
23. Cultural Differences (3:19)
24. Wet Slappy Thing (3:31)
25. Momentary Slapping of the CHOB Variety Coda (1:13)
Tools used:
Guitar by Bitchin Bob
Korg Kaossilator
Korg Kaossilator Pro
Korg Mini-KP
Korg Micro Key 37
Sony Acid Loops (crash tastic (awwwww))
Ableton Live (someday we’ll figure it out)
Adobe Audition (to watch it fight over midi devices)
Chord Pulse (music writing on the cheap)
A Butt Load of VST Plug Ins
Coffee
Voices by:
Bitchin Bob
CeMeGo
MsNeeBo
Theatreshmuck
Hippy Sammy
Chef Jeff
North Tower
Paul-E
** 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 Wet Slappy Thing)!
Found a new VST (virtual synthesizer template) called “KRUUD” (I am hoping it is not pronounced like “crud”) that had a really nifty arpeggiator where you can discreetly control the keys after the initial note. Hard to explain but cool to hear.
I added on some reverb and delay thanks to the LiquidVerb VST, and I recorded it in Audition (no overdubs, thats why it is more pleasant noise than music) and added a nifty stereo panner/swapper effect before mix-down.
Is this totally neato or what?
Yup, we’re leaking information on the Hozpitality release like an old lady with bladder problems. This will be Hozpitality’s LARGEST RELEASE YET. A DOUBLE STUDIO ALBUM with bits of audio culled from the past 3 years that fell on the digital floor.
Here is the completed track list so far with durations. The plan is to add more material. Titles are TOTALLY subject to change by official release time (and they will more than likely be changed). We still haven’t agreed on an album title but here’s what we have so far:
FINALIZATION OF THIS NEW MASTERPIECE ALBUM TO HAPPEN ON SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2013. If you feel you haven’t been adequately represented on this release, or have more audio input to add, this date will be your last chance.
The answer is here…. Watch and be amazed.
Thanks to Bob for finding this. No thanks to Bob for not posting it first! HAHAHAHA!
We have 9 tracks completed and counting. This is going to be a biggy! Now is the time to get excited. This one has all new material (of course), new obscure references, more talented input from new members, new toys, new plumbing, better (lack of) planning, and more of what you require for 2013. The sound altering collective has expanded beyond metaphysical limits to bring you a new jaw dropping 3D HD DBX MX ULTRA SUPER WITH WINGS collection of audible action, destined to beautify, baffle and other words that begin with “b”.
You have been warned!
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!)
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:
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)!
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:
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:
Tools used:
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!
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:
Tools used:
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).