ILM Listening Chamber 14

Okay, that was fucking brilliant. But can we lose the flute, please?

why does everyone here seem to hate flutes??

Penis envy, naturally

i really like this. when do we find out what this is? in a week?

*waits patiently*

i think it was decided in another thread to be less than a week if necessary - however, up to owner to post the details, i reckon - no spoiling!

Aaargh, in-crowd alert! In-crowd alert!

But it's a good track for all that, musically I mean.

I like flutes (but then I play one). When the answer comes, do tell where you sampled it from.

But can we lose the flute, please?
Ian, I guess we come from opposite universes. The flute saves the song. The track would be so much better if it would be just a flute solo. ;-)

i love this one. btw, flutes *can* be sexy. the best flute record ever is herbie mann "at the village gate".

hahaha! this is so good! it could lose the guitar near the end though.

Fantastic- lose nothing. But minus 0.2 points for not including "bitches- know they got game"/mitch, he got no last name"!

jeebus...that was fucking GRATE. who was it??

Not saying a word.

Favorite lines / phrases?

"Just another blip on the stats cock."

Awh!!! I know it..... but I don't know what it is. The vocals. Where do we find out?

Ich, what filth.

I agree with the statscock line being the best.

I'm just a sucker for these reflexive things.

This is fucking awesome. The flute totally makes the song too. Someone please own up to this quick so I can give many showers of praise.

Tracer, stop that. There's too much inter-ILM referencing in this thread as is.

Ye Gods! The twin beeotch has TWO songs devoted to it now!

wha?

But Popshots it sounds exactly like them! What the fuck ever tho. I didn't rate mention = DEATH TO ETHAN

You know, Tracer, you're right. Strike my last comment from the record, Your Honor.

Okay: it was me.

I was fiddling around with some loops and started thinking they'd make a sort of nice old-school track, so I fussed with them for a few hours and voila. Then I realized that I had very little use for a sort of nice old-school track, so I figured I'd use it to anonymously entertain people here -- and, with help from the magic of vocal pitch- shifting effects, voila again. I thought it would be massively amusing, particularly to those mentioned, but it didn't quite take off like I expected, so now I feel a little silly. Ah, well -- it was a fun way to spend a weekend.

For those asking about the samples: they shouldn't be recognizable, actually, because most of them have been chopped up note-by-note and reorganized into the melodies I was looking for. But the flute comes from Donovan's "Where is She," the horns from a Sergio Mendes Trio record, and the female vocal was lifted from a soul sample on a Mos Def song. (No clue on the original source: the full line is something like "I know I can't afford your love.") The opening bits are just glitched together from various snippets of the same Mos Def record.

I hope you were at least vaguely amused, if for nothing other than the Pinefox line.

But for some reason this sucker won't pop into the New Answers...

I was massively amused!

Well done. You are a talented man.

No, no, no, you're not supposed to be talking about talent -- this track depended less on talent than it did on a free Saturday afternoon, some decent software, and the ability not to feel stupid when your roommate comes home and catches you trying to rhyme. You're supposed to be talking about the in-jokes and ironic lyrical stylings.

If only more of the people mentioned would drop by here . . . I'm curious as to how Ally would react to the musical immortalization of her ass.

nitsuh, the ally's ass line made me snort soda up my nose at work, causing fellow employees to laugh, yes laugh at me. so mission accomplished.

and dammit, accept the fact that the track sounds good.

Damn it, Nitsuh, irony is as dead as indie rock. ACCEPT THE COMPLEMENTS.

That said, having read the lyrics, there's a lot of funny stuff that goes unnoticed.

PS - Nitsuh, I'm contracting you to create some loops for my upcoming album. I'll fax the contract over to you ASAP.

and nitsuh i am legitimately inquiring about you contributing some rhymes, pitch-shifted or no, to some tracks i've got cooking. this is not a joke.

Dear god, Nitsuh, you have far too much talent for your own good. My demands are simple: I want half.

Destroy all in-jokes. Search all Nitsuh.

the Mos Def female vocal sample is Aretha Franklin 'One Step Ahead'

Wow ... I vocalized with a legend.

you're becoming an IL* musical legend!

Well, this took me forever to say -- grandiose, oh yes. Even if I'm not in it, though maybe I am, but I can't say, oh anyway...

I would just like to say that people who write songs that mention me need to tell me cos I don't do these listening chambers, I don't have time for downloading and stuff unfortunately.

i am so in it.

Of course you're in it, Ned: "Perry and Kerry and Raggett -- just watch me step on."

People in it = "bitches," which means all of you, plus specifically Norman Phay, Ally Cook, the Pinefox, Mike Daddino, Mark Sinker, Tim Finney, Tom Ewing, Kodanshi, Dan Perry, Kerry Keane, Ned Raggett, Ally's ass, Mike Hanle y, Ethan P, Suzy, Mel W, Kate the Saint, and Rainy.

And Mitch, who is referred to by last name.

::sniff, sniff::...i have a bigger ass than ally's too...

"Bitches," Jess. "Bitches" = you.

D'oh! I'll just have to relisten to it now. ;-)

dammit nitsuh just post the lyrics.

Oh, Jesus. You know what horrible things it says about your rhyming skills when you have to include a lyric sheet? Nevertheless:

Drop your defenses, my verbal olympics, linguistic, never keep the flow simplistic, use the mic like lipstick, artistic, recapping the genius of my flow in case you missed it. Bitches are you listening? Did you expect some post-punk, some glitch-funk? Some Young Marble Giants or some hardcore? Some big beat to get you on the dance floor? I'll tell you how I know the score: ILM, ILE, Norman Phay and Ally C - - my rhymes rock to knock the socks off of the Pinefox. Mike, Mark, Tim, Tom, Kodanshi with the fecal bomb, Perry and Kerry and Raggett -- just watch me step on. You can put this shit in your new answers if you care to, I dare you, I lay down this track just to scare you. I'm genius, know I got you bumpin in your cubicle, I'm beautiful, if you don't agree then I don't see you, yo? The earth shakes when I rhyme, I can see you tremble and your boots quake everytime I lay down the beats to get you pumpin -- Ally NYC has got that big ass jumpin. Are you vexed now? Postin to ILE to announce you oversexed now? Go over and tell us exactly what you had for breakfast -- freestyle like Hanley, tick tock tick tock: just another blip on the statscock. Run it up, this is where the party at. What'd you think I'd rhyme with that? I know where my 151 be, I'm savvy, I can rock a track appeal to Ethan P., it's easy when you got skills like me. We're massive, bouncing from aggressive to passive, we're meek, see, only trigger I pull is the freaky. So ladies, Suzy and Melissa, Kate and Rainy, come round me, when I rhyme I know you want to mount me. You can, see.

now this i like! as soon as i heard the flute sample i knew i was going to like it, but at that point i had no idea it was going to be an ilx record! this is the best one so far, that i've heard anyway.

????!!!!!