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A mixture of dial-up and sea noises was not a good idea.

Ocean

I always find my self unconsciously chanting 4 syllable phrases in the rhythm of Jungle Boogie by Kool and the Gang.  "Caesar Salad" is a common one.  So, I recorded and looped this phrase for that reason.  You can also hear an effected, and phased in the same way, sample of the horns from Jungle Boogie in there.  I just snipped one sample slightly shorter than the other and looped them the way Reich used to do.  Took some experimenting to snip the right amount.  The only other effects I used were reverb, some echo on the horns, compression, EQ, and a little bit of phaser (faded in gradually)on the vox.

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Rain image by Rory MacLeod, used thanks to a Creative Commons license:

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Caesar Salad (disquiet0249)

Demo for up coming EP off the Brace For Impact Album.

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j lanz