I WANT YOU TO KNOW - CitizenMofo

17th Jun 2017 03:09 - 9 years ago
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Description : Probably not hip hop really but don't know what genre to call it. Recorded this and an album-ful of other songs last summer with Lisagaye Tomlinson on vocals, then sat on it til now. The music is all loops. When I first wrote the song, there was completely different music, and this was the music for another song. But that wasn't working, so I moved this music over to this song and it seemed to work so I kept it. Very interested in your take on this.

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theHumps
theHumps 18th Jun 2017 16:19 - 9 years ago
You've put together a mix of influences that all gel together and seem to works pretty good together but it is certainly different sounding. At first it had an alternative rock feel to me but at the same time the music was more geared towards the electronic side of music making. Music in the early/mid 80's was taking on this feel but this is still different from that. Maybe it has a more futuristic sound than a retro one though, technology shining through and helping out to shape the sound.

It's different.

Wayne
CitizenMofo
CitizenMofo replied 18th Jun 2017 - 9 years ago
Dear Wayne, I like how you put it and I think you're right. This, as probably all my music, comes out of a soup of influences that's really just the stuff I grew up listening to, which goes back across the last 5 or 6 decades. Different to me is a good word. I long ago accepted the fact that I'm strange, weird, and odd. That this piece is maybe a bit baffling musically I'm ok with. In the end we just make stuff we like to listen to, pretty much, and this is one I would crank up on the road to Vegas.
silverman
silverman 18th Jun 2017 05:42 - 9 years ago
I like this .... a lot.
But .... you probably won't like my take on it Mofo.
To me this is very dark ... weird creepy.
I hear a psychopathic murderer luring someone in to a bloody axe swinging party .... for two.
It's half past five in the morning I'm outof bed because it's just to hot to sleep and the first thing I play is this and I'm going back to bed after this cup of tea.
I'm going to fave this and I'm coming back to it later to see if it still has the same affect on me.
Brilliant.
CitizenMofo
CitizenMofo replied 18th Jun 2017 - 9 years ago
Thank you, Silverman. Yes there's a psychopathic murderer lurking in there with a bloody axe, who looks a little like the German ancestors of me except that I actually wouldn't hurt a fly. Well, ok a fly. That grinding bass, which to some might be ugly, to me is beautiful because it expresses a true state of being which is being worked through with great effort. To trust someone in this world of betrayals is an act of great daring and a terrible psychic challenge - so that's what that music is all about. I guess you could say I was working through some stuff when I wrote that song - and still am - and probably always will be. Thanks as always for your perceptive and interesting feedback!

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