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Doomtree - "All Hands"

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Bob Marley-Exodus (Vegas RMX)

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The end of 2008 saw Grieves enlisting the help of friend and collaborator Budo to co-produce Together/Apart bringing his signature swiss-army knife, multi-instrumental backdrop to Grieves' hauntingly poignant narrative. The album began taking shape in New York as the two built off the success 88 Keys and Counting had generated and paired it with the intensity they developed from  their live performances.  The recording process began to shadow the theme of the album as it saw tracks recorded in Colorado and Washington in addition to New York, infusing it with a mixture of regional influences while still maintaining a cohesive sound.  As the album neared completion the title took on a double meaning for Grieves as he explored new subject matter in the absence of trust, refuge in addiction, acceptance and honesty in self-reflection, and trying to find his place in the world without forgetting his roots.  

Together/Apart concludes three years of self-discovery that has ultimately lead to Grieves' most emotionally charged and daring album to date. 

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Grieves - On The Rocks

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Mike WiLL Made-It - Buy The World (feat. Future, Lil Wayne & Kendrick Lamar)

We've been in the studio making a ton of songs with a new album in mind and are really pumped about how things are turning out. Wanted to drop this leaker track off early while it's still fresh to let people know we're getting back at it. You can download it right now from iTunes (http://smarturl.it/dtr38a) and Bandcamp (http://bit.ly/dtr38a).

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Sims announces the release of Field Notes, a collection of 7 new tracks set for release on September 2nd through Doomtree Records. Following 2011’s critically acclaimed Bad Time Zoo LP, Field Notes finds the Minneapolis rapper in fine form, spitting poignant, razor-sharp lyrics over larger than life productions from Doomtree’s own Cecil Otter and Paper Tiger, as well as newcomers ICETEP and Plain Ole Arson (Ryan Olson x Plain Ole Bill). 

Field Notes is available for pre-order today on the Doomtree webstore and digitally via iTunes and Bandcamp. All pre-orders include the first single “Uh Huh” as an instant grat track.

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Sims plays a hometown show at First Avenue on August 23rd with Astronautalis (who pops up for a guest appearance on the Field Notes track “This Is The Place”). Tickets to #AstroSims2 can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/AstroSims2

Sims hits the road for a month-long run with Australian hip-hop group Hilltop Hoods. The North American tour starts in San Francisco on August 28th and wraps up September 28th in Cambridge, MA. Full tour dates are listed below and tickets are on sale now. 
Sims 2014 Tour Dates / http://doomtree.net/events
8.16.14 – Omaha, NE – MAHA Music Festival^
8.30.14 – St. Paul, MN – Minnesota State Fair Grandstand^
8.23.14 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue*
8.28.14 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
8.29.14 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre
9.03.14 - Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
9.04.14 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
9.05.14 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
9.06.14 - Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theater
9.07.14 - Park City, UT - Park City Live
9.09.14 - West Hollywood, CA - The Roxy Theatre
9.11.14 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
9.12.14 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
9.13.14 - Victoria, BC - Rifflandia Festival
9.15.14 - Whistler, BC - Garfinkel's
9.17.14 - Banff, AB - Wild Bill's Legendary Saloon
9.18.14 - Edmonton, AB - Dinwoodie
9.19.14 - Calgary, AB - The Gateway - SAIT Campus
9.20.14 - Saskatoon, SK - O'Brians Event Centre
9.24.14 - Montreal, QC - Cabaret Underworld
9.25.14 - Toronto, ON - The Hoxton
9.27.14 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
9.28.14 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs

Lyrics:
Well I stepped up my cleats on 
and that chin music is my theme song
that brush off, that write off, I just use that as a deduction
that mean mugging don’t mean nothing
hold the line, I play the whole 9 
I steal second, I scrape for mine
you can take the signs or you can pay no mind
I’m on the verge, hold the sermon
like I told the purists, if I played it safe I would’ve sold insurance
so I kill it ’til it’s dead, till it ’til it grows
get it on the road then tour it ’til it’s old
like any good crow I never tip toe around a motherfucking straw man
make me like amen, or god damn, or something 
like money for nothing 
in common
I came up on ramen
nine of us and we’re lining up 
and you must be high on that diamond dust
now I’m grinding out until my time is up

I didn’t come to play games, I came to win
I get it in then I’m in the wind and I ain’t no average citizen
I ain’t living in that bitter end 
I come to stack my dividends and then bounce

I am the chem trail in your easy mac
Sims Jong Il to all you Tumbl’ing amnesiacs
faking funk and celiacs 
got me out here feeling old on my Holden Caulfield calling phony
I’m from the land of Uncle Ole’s yelling fuck the police
Axel Foley your magic kingdom, leave a mess on your linoleum
In the kitchen with a downgraded Pluto enriching Plutonium
these molly poppers went too based, looking Rob Ford
that ain’t flavor that’s Kool Aid, you’re skating on a long board 
I’m taking shots singing C-Murder until I wind up on the floor
then I’m Hasselhoffing this cheeseburger, call you up around four
I’m Nick Caging this Vegas, I’m lighting up these stages
they say baseless shit to get famous, they're Jim Rome, they’re Skip Bayless
sunglasses and bail money, my cunning and my homies
we’re running, we’re hungry, you stay praying on some pony
stay blue Lonely Boy, southsider, outlier, the gasoline to your house fire
and I ride this shit ’til there are no tires

I didn’t come to play games, I came to win
I get it in then I’m in the wind and I ain’t no average citizen
I ain’t living in that bitter end
I come to stack my dividends and then bounce

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Love Got In The Way

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Heroes (we could be) [feat. Tove Lo]

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Song Credits:
Raps by Mike Mictlan
Produced by RedVelvet Beats

Mike Mictlan "so so STRAYNGE"

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Jonathan is the first single from Bestiary, the sophomore release from Hail Mary Mallon (Aesop Rock & Rob Sonic).

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Hail Mary Mallon - Jonathan

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"We're very excited and grateful to be headed out on our Home Away From Home Tour with Bambu, MaLLy and Last Word. Anyone who's experienced my headlining tours knows that I like to have one DJ and one host for the entire evening and I choose my support artists very carefully. If you're not up on any of our tour family's music, please check them out so you'll know how to appreciate them when we're in your town. I also like to make a tour theme song with everyone in the crew to celebrate rolling out together. Please enjoy this track and we welcome your well wishes for safe travels and security for our loved one's while we're away. 

Love Always and See You Soon!

-Ali"

Produced by: Brother Ali

Home Away From Home Tour
Feat. Brother Ali
w/ Bambu & DJ LAST WORD
Hosted by: MaLLY

Full list of remaining dates:
September 25 - Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub
September 26 - Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo 
September 27 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne 
September 28 - Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
September 30 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst 
October 1 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill 
October 2 - Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour
October 3 - Las Vegas, NV - Beauty Bar
October 4 - Santa Barbara, CA - Velvet Jones 
October 5 - San Diego, CA - Porter's Pub
October 8 - Tucson, AZ - Congress 
October 9 - Tempe, AZ - Club Red
October 10 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
October 11 - El Paso, TX - Sector 7 
October 14 - Austin, TX - Stubb's BBQ 
October 15 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
October 16 - Dallas, TX - HOB Small Room 
October 17 - New Orleans, LA - HOB Parish
October 18 - Birmingham, AL - Workplay
October 20 - Orlando, FL - The Social
October 22 - Pensacola, FL - Vinyl Music Hall
October 23 - Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5
October 24 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
October 25 - Richmond, VA - The Broadberry
October 27 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
October 29 - Brooklyn, NY - Knitting Factory
October 30 - Providence, RI - Met Cafe
October 31 - Boston, MA - Middle East
November 1 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground
November 4 - Montreal, QC - Phi Centre
November 5 - Toronto, ON - Tattoo 
November 6 - London, ON - London Music Hall
November 7 - Ithaca, NY - The Haunt 
November 8 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop 
November 10 - Columbus, OH - Skully's 
November 11 - Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig
November 13 - Madison, WI - High Noon
November 14 - Chicago, IL - Reggie's 

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Brother Ali - Home Away From Home feat. Bambu & MaLLy

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Produced by 84 Caprice

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11.02.14 - Iowa City, IA - Blue Moose Tap House 
11.04.12 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
11.05.14 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom 
11.06.14 - Little Rock, AR - Juanita's Cantina
11.07.14 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
11.10.14 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
11.11.14 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's 
11.12.14 - Atlanta, GA - Center Stage
11.14.14 - Richmond, VA - The National 
11.15.14 - Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
11.16.14 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
11.17.14 - New Haven, CT - Toad's Place 
11.18.14 - Providence, RI - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
11.20.14 - Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue Theater 
11.21.14 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection 
11.22.14 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom

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Prof - Farout

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Joey Bada$$ - "Christ Conscious" (Prod. by Basquiat)

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"When I first made the beat for 'Kiln', my heart was overcome with an unexplainable sadness, a blanket of melancholia, that enveloped it's playful rhythm. I knew from that point forward that my co-conspirator and I were to be sentenced, that day."  --Rob Sonic

"'Kiln' is the most dynamic song of all time. It's a tale documenting the very source of Hail Mary Mallon's power: Emotional Entertainment."  --Aesop Rock

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Hail Mary Mallon - Kiln

From the new album ALL HANDS out now on Doomtree Records! 
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GRAY DUCK
Produced by Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, and Paper Tiger
Guitar by Jake Hanson

(Mike)
Ride on Blue Boy dipped in a Uni / dickin on a squad car, vickin on a fully / sick as a Sunni, strapped with a bobby / pullin on the pin, he Tutankhamun / Boots to the ceiling, boostin the serum / so sincere, brutes new to the feeling / Ridin on the old scene, buck if you hear me / bucks for the fabric of your fiber / bricked, dips, blicks, big, brighter / Bees in a trap? No, bees in a hive / Gee is for Geezus, Gs and a nine / Oh is for O.G.s, grease in the eyes / crease in the khakis, piece to the side / Forgotten youth when older mutants played Magneto / we believed the strip and never plagiarized their credo / Fashion cutter for the fascist, dirty-lipped and truly goony / Looney Tune Schooly Ds come off cartoony / No King Cloak and Dagger, Lavabanger Legacy / No anonymity, no forced validity / False Hopes, we got close, man, we got ghost / tough shows and rough roads until every sign said, GO!

(Dessa) 
Take the skins / hang em on the walls / not trophies, just reminders / what is left here when we fall

(Stef)
Ay, I’m pushing up on your tempo / she too stoned Nintendo / I’m Vint Cerf, she Pink Floyd / I’m jumpin out the window / Sike, I’m fly, I float aight right by / cut my own moat / get by with my chose fam / dismantle thrones / All the fuck in your station / all up in your dark / awkward in ya Marc Maron conversations / call em out the park / hangin out then Van Halen cabs in your city / all up on your block opposite the cops / y’all should all fuck with me / style like a Cadillac / crash with a battle axe handy / Gucci store fire on the couture / then planes, trains, and automobiles, I’m John Candy / Y’all just can’t stand me / I make em feel ridiculous / pickin apart they postures put together meticulously awful / in the air, hostile / the fingernails, watch em / sit and stare, box em if I gotta / Panic is the fashion / I arrow to the action / Pied Piper through all types a shit / types like me y’all ain’t fuckin with

(Hook)
Go get it / or go without / You going nowhere / run that shit into the ground / Go get it / or go without / We go for broke / and run that shit into the ground

(Dessa)
Struck by lightning / with a hand in the sand / came to with a fist fused in glass / Closed the circuit skull full of white light, mouthful of ash / Sparks on the pavement / dragging the chain / anchor’s off, man, lost it again / steady on gotta push through the rain / weather in the veins, came for this / train for this, fuck / made for this, pray they miss, duck / duck gray duck gets up and running / rest fall back like a bridge in London / brand new brakes I never touch em

(Sims)
You’re all spin move, you’re doing too much / rental car, trick cigar / I’m just laughing while that whole thing blows up / looking like I’m Joakim Noah / black mask, take your gas money / my name is Sims but call me David Lynch, I make em act funny / I ain’t afraid to change lines, state, date, or face / I’m option two when you skate or die but still survive on basslines / at least for the next eight months / then I change up like it ain’t much / you do the Roger Rabbit in Shape Ups / still blabbing bout some frame up vision / MN living gray duck risen / nay fucks given, way subliminal / class-war criminal trying to make my stance more pivotal / see what is left is suspect / the Pepsi Gen went crystal meth / and punk rock dads scream rap is dead / I laughed until I lost my chill / I’m really real, half Built to Spill half Kill at Will / half shark alligator and my Philly filled / Mill City kid in the field / gritty is in the blood, proof is in the track / fifty in the tank, on you like a Mac Truck / roll with a ton on my back / better back up fast

(Hook)

DOOMTREE "Gray Duck"

FLOSSTRADAMUS - REBOUND (DAKTYL REMIX)
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FLOSSTRADAMUS - REBOUND (DAKTYL REMIX)

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FINAL BOSS
Produced by Lazerbeak
Guitar by Jake Hanson
Additional bass by Adam Hurlburt and Ben Clark

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(Sims) 
There goes Johnny sweeping the leg / There goes Jake cuffing the hands / There are things that I’ll never understand / They’re just looking for a buyer / easy meat, cheap prey supplier / situation looking dire / shot back at the devil I was heavy under fire / It’s okay I’m reloaded / they can’t rap along but Goddamn they quote it / Goddamn it’s frozen / My heart is Minnesota, this boulder / If you didn’t notice, something inside of me is slowly exploding / I feel like Kobe on the sideline / Sidewinder missile, I am cyanide / inert for the last time, land mine / I am out of my Goddamn skull / pedal to the floor board I am all pulse / I don’t play fault, I just dust off / walk over them coals, iron out later / I ain’t waiting on an elevator / Each mark is a caption / Each line on my face shows exactly what happened 
(Hook) 
You’ll know what you need when it slips by / but I’m not looking back for the rest of my / Get up like I never fucking got up before / and I get it like I never fucking got it before / You’ll see how dark once they hit the light / know what I’ve made from the marks on my hands / Get up like I never fucking got up before / and I get it like I never fucking got it before 
(Dessa) 
Simon says / Miranda’s right / but William Tells it different / says Gideon / brought a rifle / was looking for a fight / The Housewives of Gomorrah / all boarded up from here to the border, sordid / falling on our own swords or standing still / heartbreak hill / I’ma make a fortune in small bills / to show that I can, give it back in my will / like the back of my hands I know hard work / my back, my hands / yeah both still hurt / Like a catamaran, two skins / one for the water / one for the wind / Like a battering ram, I get it in / lemme at it again and when the juniper blooms / we get a river of gin 
(Stef) 
Get up, let’s go, move homie right now / shut em up, they make it hard to keep the food down / Ninety-nine lives, livin by the Konami code / fold em all origami mode / Let the drama slow, never ever ever / I’m an adventure, keep em on they toes / Drippy-nose fucks flake, I dip past no breaks / skippin y’all, flipping y’alls hot cakes, eating / I’ma man the damn Weber / Stand aside, handle mine, add the cheddar / Kiss the chef / nah gut, skin, and eat the chef before he eats the rest / I’m here to keep the nest safe and sound the alarm / ride the earthquakes and hang ten harm / Y’all get tame, I’ma non-stopper / y’all flip the frame, we pull the copper

(Hook) 
(Mike) 
Python wings, viper claws / I been breaking all types of laws / diamond teeth, steel cut jaws / got raised by fightin dogs / Been around the block so many times, can’t find my house / wanna fit the earth in the palm of my hand but it keeps on bustin out / Father figure, figure 8, motherland turned motherboard / Satellite-ville fly the flag of the HD SMPTE color bars / Plasticine, whole world building outward / Second Life, no cheats for the first / Warp Whistle level up out the gutter, all hunger no thirst 
(Wait for it...Hook) 



Doomtree started as a mess of friends, fooling around after school, trying to make music without reading the manual. The group had varied tastes—rap, punk, indie rock, pop—so the music they made together often bore the toolmarks of several styles. When they had enough songs, they booked some shows. They made friends with the dudes at Kinkos to print up flyers. They burned some CDs to sell. The shows got bigger. Of necessity, Doomtree's seven members (Cecil Otter, Dessa, Lazerbeak, Mike Mictlan, P.O.S, Paper Tiger, and Sims) figured out how to run a small business. Lazerbeak's garage became the merchandise warehouse; P.O.S' mom's basement became the webstore. A decade and fifty releases later, it's all properly official—Doomtree is now a real, live label with international distribution—but not too much has changed. Doomtree still partners with people who aren't jerks. If they can't find something they need, they make it themselves. Although each member has a career as a solo artist, every so often the whole crew convenes to make a collaborative record as a group. The most recent Doomtree record was called No Kings. A lot of people liked it. Happily, some of those people were writers at places like Vice, NPR, Rolling Stone, etc. According to the Village Voice, Doomtree is "one of the most talented and dedicated rap groups working today." VH1 says the crew has "the aggressive energy of a punk act with just the right amount of hip-hop swagger." In support of No Kings, Doomtree made laps around the US and hit Europe a couple times too. They played at festivals like Lollapalooza, SXSW, and Belgium's Dour Festival.

The newest Doomtree record is called All Hands, due January 27th 2015. The title nods to the nautical rally cry, "All hands on deck," and the album stands as the most collaborative and cohesive project the crew has yet produced. The production from Cecil Otter, Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger, and P.O.S twists through 13 booming tracks, building the raw and epic soundscapes that the group has become well known for, while adding more of-the-moment musical elements and techniques for a genre-spanning effect. This is the sound of old friends fine-tuning their craft, both together and individually, for over a decade, and it shows. Lyrically, All Hands sounds hungry as all hell. The three-year gap between Doomtree albums has given each of the five emcees substantial time to grow as solo artists, and the group's return finds everyone tour-tested with plenty to prove. Sims, P.O.S, Mike Mictlan, Dessa, and Cecil Otter drive home razor-sharp cadences, hard-hitting punchlines, and monstrous choruses, passing the spotlight back and forth until the house lights come up.

To write All Hands, crew members sequestered themselves in a cabin with no cell reception to distract from the task at hand and no neighbors to be bothered by the music playing through the night. The process informed the product: the record creates and operates within its own sphere—a particular mix of menace, humor, beauty, and adrenaline. Though the Minneapolis sound is present on All Hands, the record is as much a product of seven friends, relying only on each other, working in international waters.

Both the catchiest and densest album in the group's catalog, All Hands adeptly walks a tightrope of immediately memorable hooks and in-depth lyricism that rewards repeated listens. The result is equally worthy of up-to-11 trunk-rattling drives as it is late-night headphone sessions.

DOOMTREE "Final Boss"

LYRICS:
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It’s a nightmare but you’re on fire
You wait your whole life waiting for this moment to begin
And now it’s over but you’re not tired

I’m having visions
Infinite visions
The same ones as you
I try not to worry
But I always worry
Until all I can do
Is wish I could stay here
Feeling forever
Before I must go
Wish we could change it
To before we changed it
What did we know?

10,000 eyes and 400 hands
And all of my arms are made of the sands
Of oceans of old that dried up and left
They became the skies and then they all wept
The first time they heard the song by Tom Petty
The one where Johnny Depp plays the rebel named Eddie
The sky was the limit and then it came crashing down

Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It’s a nightmare but you’re on fire
You wait your whole life waiting for this moment to begin
And now it’s over but you’re not tired

I’m having visions
Infinite visions
Of something new
You feel it changing
Slowly but changing
About to breakthrough

COMPOSITION NOTES:
The lyrics and vocal melody for the hook in the chorus popped into my head in August of 2010. The last Whartscape festival had just finished and I was doing a residency in the Netherlands that wasn't going exactly as planned, to put it politely.

Whartscape was a DIY festival in Baltimore that I had organized for five years but it was becoming so large in both size and undertaking that I knew it had to be laid to rest. While it had been more successful than I had ever hoped and I booked all my favorite bands to play it over the years, it still felt as if it ended before its time in many ways and when it was all over, I felt a void. In reality that void was probably just the withdrawal from my stress addiction that the Bromst tour caused coupled with Whartscape but luckily the residency I was on took over for that.

Anyway, the hook stuck with me for a while and, in 2013, I tried pairing it with a track I was working on for some Ableton Operator synths and some chopped up tabla drums. The melody fit and so the merger was made.

While I had experimented with many different options, I was without a vocal pattern or lyrics for the verse until July of 2014. Al Schatz, my good friend/sound engineer/member of thesick band Wume, had used the recently purchased label maker to print a sweet 'TOM PETTY' label and put it on the rack of compressors and shit next to my mix position. So I kept thinking about Tom Petty. I took a break from writing lyrics to watch some Tom Petty videos and then (while totally crushing it in 2048) I was just singing gibberish and nonsense when the 'visions' lyrics and vocal melody started to come out. I quickly sketched them out and tried singing them over the track.

I had never sang in that low register before but after trying several others it ended up being the one I enjoyed the most. 

PRODUCTION NOTES:
The vocoder is the internal Ableton vocoder with a blending of several custom soft-synths patches for their Analog synth and one that mimics a mellotron.

The chorus was tracked using a varispeed technique paired with the gender adjustment of the Antares auto-tuner that mimics the changing of the length of throat.  Those two techniques paired together create that surreal sounding female voice that sounds very little like my original voice and nothing at all like my pervious technique of pitch-shifting using my old friend and goto pedal, the Digitek Whammy.

A Neumann U 87 was used for all the vocals including those used as the modulator. 

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Dan Deacon - Feel The Lightning (Vocals Only Acapella)

'Feel The Lightning' is the single off my forthcoming album 'Gliss Riffer' (out Feb 24th on Domino Records). 

I thought it would be fun to post all the stem groups from the track, as well as an instrumental. Feel free to chop these up and do whatever you want with them (i mean its 2015, lets get real). If you make any remixes or samples out of this share links to them in the comments! 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy hearing the parts on their own. I'll try to post as much production and composition notes as possible in the track descriptions.  Peace Sign and All the colors of emoji hears to all of you infinity symbol.

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Feel the Lightning

Heaven Only Knows ft Chance The Rapper
Prod. by Lido
Additional Vocals by Eryn Allen Kane 

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Heaven Only Knows (Ft. Chance The Rapper, Lido & Eryn Allen Kane)

DESSA 
I took it for a kiss, but it couldn’t have been, could it? / I see now what it is, we were just biting the same bullet / You called it in the air / it landed it on its edge / when the crowd gathers around / you turn tail / I turn heads / Shavin down the puzzle piece / tryna make a clean fit / Take what is lovely / leave before the rain hits / It’s a heartbreaker for starters, as you age not too much changes / practice doesn’t make perfect, just makes the game more dangerous 

STEF 
Start repo / negative sleep nauseous / barf party for sure / intelligent creep stalking awkward / Flush flustered rush for doors / advance fire-plan / handy with the way out / routes explored / Cover catching up / careful with your care / We don’t go there, naw / We keep locks and keys steadily swallowed / never be followed, none of em dare / Channel up your anger leave it here / kindly disappear / Mind your mannerisms / I can’t be flattered back / The patterns the concern / lessons prolly turned to fact / By now you’d surely drown yourself before you’d help me with this sail / I’m in the wind / crossed fingers for the win / Up to ten til they hammer in the very last nail / Challenging like every last stalemate / Deal with it / No mission ends / Precision lack of friends / Happily recommend nothing to no one, ever 

CECIL (Hook) 
I know, I know / I know wake up, wake up / But I don’t go there, go there / She knows the way home 

CECIL 
You know your way home? / You gonna be all right? / Yeah, but I had faith that you’d see the light / and ride with me or kiss me goodbye / Now you got me feeding kites into the night sky / Covered them with nightlights, like, did you see the beacon? / I swear I let those kites fly around all weekend, no? / Well someone must have cut the lines or something, no? / Or maybe something, oh, you weren’t looking / Ok Plan B just panic / run up the stairs and shut the door to the attic and don’t come up for air / until you’re torn from her fabric completely… / and just like magic, you’re all in one piece again / But, I’m nothing like I used to be… / elusive and reclusive / Now I’m just both times a hundred…exclusively / Truthfully, I was blind to the deep end / until that piece of us went and died that weekend (Hook) 

SIMS 
Then it flashed forward, but I asked for it / Rip out the doubt, I’m way too south / I gulped it up, I laid back / peeling off the layers / the mantra saying “fear can’t stay here self see you later” / Fire chakra dissolve to ether / I have to meet her, I know she knows the way / I’ll have to die twice, no novocaine / See the Eye of Horace, I am Osiris / I meet the devil, it ain’t the first time / He kills me quick like I am nothing / Scream St. Peter, I need you now cousin / I see the owls coming, they float me safe / I learn their grace, they help me heal / I’m under stars peeling off my skin to rid my scars / it’s the first time I am reborn, but I am not me / No identity, and I am finally free / I am my brother, I am my father / I am the sun, I am the water / I am an ion, I am everything / I am the vapor, a cloud of smoke / I am a cheap laugh, but I get the joke / I am a brief flash, the abstract

Doomtree "Beacon"

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Known for welding hip-hop with guitar squalls and screamed vocals, on WDELH P.O.S. steps away from his noisy past in favor of futuristic beats fit for a Berlin nightclub. Though his hip-hop foundation is firm on tracks like the fiery “Fuck Your Stuff” and the funky “Wanted/Wasted,” the album brings banging new sounds from dance-oriented collaborators like German DJs Boyz Noise & Housemeister, Gayngs’ Ryan Olson, and Innerpartysystem’s Patric Russel

Also along for the ride are Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon (who lends his shapeshifting vocals to the heartfelt bear-hug of an anthem “Where We Land”) and P.O.S.’ trusted Doomtree co-conspirators Lazerbeak, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, and Sims. Bringing it all into focus is all-star producer and mix engineer Andrew Dawson (P.O.S.’s former high school classmate), who has worked on platinum releases from the likes of Kanye West, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne and Fun.

P.O.S - Bumper

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P.O.S - Fuck Your Stuff

P.O.S - Get Down feat. Mike Mictlan

RIP Gregory Isaacs 1951-2010. Now you can cool down the pace to whatever you feel like, whenever you feel like it.

Night Nurse (Gregory Isaacs) by Sly & Robbie ft Simply Red

Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Trouble
Album: Mr. Marley

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Released: September 9th, 1996
Tuff Gong Records

Mr. Marley

Trouble (Album Version)

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