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Universal Universe

Produced by Jono Ma
Mixed by Ewan Pearson

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Banana Tree Vocal Production Notes

0:14  “I don’t have an official academic degree, but what I surely do know is the forest teaches people for free.” 

The vocals start out pretty high so they already cut through pretty well without too many effects. I added fairly heavy compression (8:1) to enhance the nuances of the lips/throat. I also added a sine wave flanger to give it the tremolo type feel. For those of you who use Ableton, the exact flanger parameters are High Pass: 138 Hz, Dry/Wet :31 percent, Delay Time: .40 ms, Feedback: .62, Envelope: 12%, LFO: 81% Sine wav, Rate: 1/12. I left the EQ flat except for boosts at 1.4 and 6 kHz. 

0:27 “Banana Tree”

The parameters here are the same as above(it’s the same take) except for the addition of some delay to give it more of a surreal feel. I also doubled the part and panned all the way to the right to build extra atmosphere.  

0:41 “Maybe I’m mistaken but the real world is whatever, its whatever that you want it to be. Feel the relaxation, life is a vacation if we all just had the courage to dream.”

This verse has the same effects as the first one except I removed the flanger  in order to give it that up close feel. I was also basically touching the microphone with my lips when I was singing and tried to portray a slightly different character for the sake of variation. The only other change is a cut in the lows because the take wasn’t as high pitched as earlier in the song. 

0:54 “Banana Tree” 
This banana tree has the same effects as the other one but it’s a different take. I also added a synth here to change things up a little bit. 

1:07 “You can say some words about the economics but I’d probably respond to you that that’s ironic cause we’ve all heard the story about the fisherman on the dock. A working man came up to him all criticizing and the fisherman ask the man what his job was. He replied: I’m just working so I finally can retire and fish.”

Here I have the highest vocal part centered and two lower harmonies panned about 20% to the left and the right. Heavy compression was added to all three parts plus the same eq as mentioned above. Any other effects would have made this part muddy. 

1:35 “Life is short, so live it good, and I’ll be right by your side. And when the going gets tough, cause sometimes it does, remember that it all will pass with time.” 

The drums go half time in the part to make it more of a breakdown. I added the flanger on the vocals again but this time its saw tooth and the high pass is at 411hz. There is also a slight ping pong delay and of course some compression. 

2:02 “Whats the definition, oh I’m on a mission to define what it means to be free. With a little intuition we’ll be in the right condition to create whatever we want to see.”

I think the alliteration is what makes this part stand out. I did some cutting on the word “Whats” as a lead in. Aside from the effects that I’ve used throughout the song, I also double this verse with the same take an octave lower. I used the pro mode (not complex pro) in ableton on the lowered take to give it that slowed down feel. I also added some overdrive and panned hard left. 

2:15 “Banana Tree”

Same effects as the second banana tree but its another take. I also warped the same take up an octave, added lots of delay and moved it over a measure.

2:29 “Now take me back to land again, yup Native Amercians, they really know how to live. I want to climb a banana tree, shout from sea to shining sea, yeah what a good good, what a good live this is.”
Again with this verse I added the octave lower effect with overdrive panned to the side. 

2:42 Final chorus but I didn’t add the banana tree vocal part because that would have been boring and honestly trashy  I used the stoppy piano part to leave room for the synths to stand out. 

3:00 End of song

That’s about it! Let me know if you have any questions. More production notes for other songs coming soon!

Banana Tree

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Written by Christopher Glover, Peter Wade, Amanda Warner & David Gross
Produced by Christopher Glover & Peter Wade
Mixed by Andrew Maury
Recorded at Penguin Prison Studios & Comet LA
Mastered by Joe LaPorta at Sterling Sound
Christopher Glover – vocals, guitars, bass, jupiter-6, percussion, ep-30, piano, 808
David Gross – cp-80, prophet 08
Amanda Warner – vocals

lyrics:

You could be my woman
And I’ll be your man
Just a little bit longer
‘Til the feeling ends
If something else is happening
And you need to go
You could run around this whole place
And you’d never know

Oh my can’t you let it be
Running round again
Round and round again
No I got somewhere to be
Running round again
Round and round again

Something better might be coming
Just a little more cuz it never gets old
Something that you thought was over
Just a little more cuz it never gets old

You could tell me something
You don’t need to shout
But I don’t need to know that
Don’t freak me out
Everything is ok
Everything is fine
For just a little bit longer
‘Til you’re out of time

Never Gets Old Remixes

Never Gets Old

Dizzy

Mushrooms

System

Floating through the air
I'm not sure what I inhaled
But I'm feeling that the ceiling is the floor
Maybe I'll have more








Helium

Bobby Caldwell get some added familiar beats for dance floor friendliness.

Do For Love (Back to Life Mix) - Bobby Caldwell

Homecoming

Ventura Highway

Space Cowboy is a song about aspirations and their ability to shape us, even if those aspirations are unfulfilled. The importance of this shaping over the achievement of the aspiration is the philosophical proposition of the song. The immortality of music is used to justify my own aspirations.

Space Cowboy

I'm' Gonna Ride My Bike Whenever I Want To by Universal Mind 
Produced by Celine Dion 

Im Gonna Ride My Bike Whenever I Want To

Universal Mind - Vocals/Keys
Strange Operator - Guitar/Programming
The Alphabet - Programming

In my mind I'm gonna
In my mind I'm gonna go
To A place I know is real
Realer than the physical
You might not believe me
Till you try it on your own
To a place I know is real
Realer than the physical

Riding on A brain wave
Catching every sunray
If you ask me were I've gone
I will tell you I went home

Bring me to picasso
Then I'll visit leonardo
Thats Davinci
In a pinch he - always gets me out of it
Cause fellow artists
Know the heart is
Where the art is
Constilations
Wet the brain with
New ideas and innovations
Born again
Congratulations
I'm glad you made it

In my mind I'm gonna
In my mind I'm gonna go
To A place I know is real
Realer than the physical
You might not believe me
Till you try it on your own
To a place I know is real
Realer than the physical

Think I drank too much of that potion
Why is everything slow motion?
These surroundings are surreal
Whats this trippiness I feel?
Now I'm looking into the future
Everything is looking good yeah
All my worries went away
Live on Venus here to stay

Pavements taking over
There's barely any trees
Where did all the art go?
It's nowhere to be seen
Is anybody out there?
I'm falling to my knees
Where did all the art go?
Can anyone hear me?
I think it's only you and me

DaVinci (Featuring Strange Operator & The Alphabet)

Escort - Cocaine Blues

Washed Up Game Show Host Uses Fibonacci Sequence To Win Final Jackpot

Check out the production notes below the lyrics :)

Lyrics:
You second guessed me
Quantum physics never measured me so I never was
Is it true that I, if you forget that I, ever was, If I am, ever was, If I will be?
You second guessed me
Quantum physics never measured me
So I never was
Never was, always am
Living in oblivion 
To be or not to be is the question that we're figuring
This just got Shakespearean
This is what my theory is
If all the worlds a stage then its making me delirious
Blast me off to Sirius
Eat a piece of cake
Cause life's a piece of cake
And don't take it too serious
Pythagorean mind pop
It'll make your brain stop
Measure all the water in the world to the last drop
I don't need to calculate it
I don't need to fabricate
My lyrics are legitimate
Like coca colas carbonated
Quantum physics never measured me
So I never was
Is it true that I, if you forget that I, ever was, If I am, ever was, If I will be?
You second guessed me
Quantum physics never measured me
So I never was
Never was, always am
Living in oblivion 
To be or not to be is the question that we're figuring
And suddenly I'm seeing its a paradox
Got to open up the soul before it can become unlocked
(scatting)
Those words you just heard
Were old verbs from the previous versions of earth
An immersion of scat and a blurb from the past
Its preserved in the sap magnified by the cap 
Of a mushroom I tapped
For its magical powers





Pythagorean Mind Pop

Encyclopedia

Face

Sounds channeled from Venus to the brain of Anonymous Human.

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