Look at us, how close we are.
Download 50_Frida_121709.mp3
Schedule notes:
As announced earlier on this selfsame blog, I will be plowing right through the holidays and finishing the goddamn out of this project. Be sure to tune in on 12/24 and 12/31 for the last releases.
The Song
Not thrilled with the mix on this one. UPDATE: ACTUALLY I REALLY HATE IT. It was a tricky little song. Nothing sat right from the beginning. I started digging my own grave by deciding to orient my drums around a mono loop that I recorded into ProTools from my ASR-X back when I was making my album.* It proved remarkably resistant to my normal mono-loop-rehabbing technique of carving out frequencies and spreading them around the mix.
*Yes, I'm that desperate for ideas.
The final version of the song is actually a sketch I made and never expanded. I found a decent chord progression, heard the hook in my head, felt halfway not-bad about singing, went into the booth and recorded a first hook, a slightly more aggressive second hook, and a third, emotional-breakdown hook, with plans to mock up 16-bar verses in between. (The sobbing in that third hook, btw, is more of a cough/gag sort of thing, but it worked out in the end.) Clearly, the verses never developed, so I worked out the vocal countermelody -which I really like - for the second go-round and the outro and decided that the hook was the verse and vice versa.
Desipte my frustration with this song, I think that there is promise in my approach. I no longer think that I am uniquely terrible at singing, and my weekly work in the booth has allowed me a far greater understanding of how my voice works. I'll get better.
Playlists: Father Abraham, Loverboy?
As promised, I spent a few minutes zipping up some completely arbitrary year-end playlists for you. All playlists are in chronological order. Should be some good fun. First off, let's take a look at a first draft of the list of songs that I think will translate well with a live backing band:
05 Sleepless Nights
06 Loud Sex
07 Oscillator Blues
11 Internet Girl
17 Lum Di Lie
24 Elevator
32 I Know You
34 Hey Baby, You Look Better with the Lights Out
44 Duyipa Dudit
Christ. Listen to these and tell me I'm not pulling some sort of loverboy act. I can't wait to play a hip-hop show in Boston and see the he-think-he-cute looks on the faces of the folded-arm, I-could-do-better-than-that crowd. If you're into zip files, I got you covered:
Download 52pickup_Loverboy_Set.zip
Let's proceed. Here's a short list of my favorite vocal performances of the year, rap-wise. Set aside lyricism here; I'm talking specifically about delivery:
09 Re2Go
10 Jacques Cousteau
23 All My Friends Are CFOs
25 Your Beats
27 In Which Common Candy Items Are Referenced
33 Rhymes with Khartoum (first verse, specifically)
Download 52pickup_Vox_Delivery.zip
Let's do Best Hooks. You'll notice that songs are already beginning to repeat themselves. Well, hey:
17 Lum Di Lie
19 Over Your Shoulder
22 Pimp Armstrong
25 Your Beats
32 I Know You
36 Parking Spot
39 It's Perfect, It's Good, and It's Pleasing
47 Culture Pirates (FA Zombie RMX)
Can't take credit for that last hook. I just had the good sense to recognize that Destroy Babylon had already done most of my work for me. Download:
Download 52pickup_Best_Hooks.zip
One more playlist for today - one that I will probably not listen to, ever, because I hate them. Don't be offended if you like these songs. I have my reasons:
03 Microwave
13 Bomb
16 Sasquatch Hunted
35 Half a Parable
37 Cruella de Ill/Donner Pass Tuxedo
Download 52pickup_Why_Are_You_Downloading_This_One_For_Fucks_Sake.zip
More next week.
Links:
Composition using sounds from only Windows XP and 98.
Screw you, soda.
I'm pretty well sure we got hosed on the health insurance garbage. Unless you work in health insurance, that is.
Song details: Mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East, Cambridge MA.
Download 50_Frida_121709.mp3
Schedule notes:
As announced earlier on this selfsame blog, I will be plowing right through the holidays and finishing the goddamn out of this project. Be sure to tune in on 12/24 and 12/31 for the last releases.
The Song
Not thrilled with the mix on this one. UPDATE: ACTUALLY I REALLY HATE IT. It was a tricky little song. Nothing sat right from the beginning. I started digging my own grave by deciding to orient my drums around a mono loop that I recorded into ProTools from my ASR-X back when I was making my album.* It proved remarkably resistant to my normal mono-loop-rehabbing technique of carving out frequencies and spreading them around the mix.
*Yes, I'm that desperate for ideas.
The final version of the song is actually a sketch I made and never expanded. I found a decent chord progression, heard the hook in my head, felt halfway not-bad about singing, went into the booth and recorded a first hook, a slightly more aggressive second hook, and a third, emotional-breakdown hook, with plans to mock up 16-bar verses in between. (The sobbing in that third hook, btw, is more of a cough/gag sort of thing, but it worked out in the end.) Clearly, the verses never developed, so I worked out the vocal countermelody -which I really like - for the second go-round and the outro and decided that the hook was the verse and vice versa.
Desipte my frustration with this song, I think that there is promise in my approach. I no longer think that I am uniquely terrible at singing, and my weekly work in the booth has allowed me a far greater understanding of how my voice works. I'll get better.
Playlists: Father Abraham, Loverboy?
As promised, I spent a few minutes zipping up some completely arbitrary year-end playlists for you. All playlists are in chronological order. Should be some good fun. First off, let's take a look at a first draft of the list of songs that I think will translate well with a live backing band:
05 Sleepless Nights
06 Loud Sex
07 Oscillator Blues
11 Internet Girl
17 Lum Di Lie
24 Elevator
32 I Know You
34 Hey Baby, You Look Better with the Lights Out
44 Duyipa Dudit
Christ. Listen to these and tell me I'm not pulling some sort of loverboy act. I can't wait to play a hip-hop show in Boston and see the he-think-he-cute looks on the faces of the folded-arm, I-could-do-better-than-that crowd. If you're into zip files, I got you covered:
Download 52pickup_Loverboy_Set.zip
Let's proceed. Here's a short list of my favorite vocal performances of the year, rap-wise. Set aside lyricism here; I'm talking specifically about delivery:
09 Re2Go
10 Jacques Cousteau
23 All My Friends Are CFOs
25 Your Beats
27 In Which Common Candy Items Are Referenced
33 Rhymes with Khartoum (first verse, specifically)
Download 52pickup_Vox_Delivery.zip
Let's do Best Hooks. You'll notice that songs are already beginning to repeat themselves. Well, hey:
17 Lum Di Lie
19 Over Your Shoulder
22 Pimp Armstrong
25 Your Beats
32 I Know You
36 Parking Spot
39 It's Perfect, It's Good, and It's Pleasing
47 Culture Pirates (FA Zombie RMX)
Can't take credit for that last hook. I just had the good sense to recognize that Destroy Babylon had already done most of my work for me. Download:
Download 52pickup_Best_Hooks.zip
One more playlist for today - one that I will probably not listen to, ever, because I hate them. Don't be offended if you like these songs. I have my reasons:
03 Microwave
13 Bomb
16 Sasquatch Hunted
35 Half a Parable
37 Cruella de Ill/Donner Pass Tuxedo
Download 52pickup_Why_Are_You_Downloading_This_One_For_Fucks_Sake.zip
More next week.
Links:
Composition using sounds from only Windows XP and 98.
Screw you, soda.
I'm pretty well sure we got hosed on the health insurance garbage. Unless you work in health insurance, that is.
Song details: Mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East, Cambridge MA.
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