It was a great track to start with :) I am glad you enjoyed it… I’ve been looking for an excuse to record a crappy megaphone through a really good mic :) Thank again for the compliment.
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An actual megaphone, not a megaphone effect? Nice!

Yeah, I’m low tech all the way baby! You can hear the rapid fire trigger sound just before the spoken-word starts. I was quite surprised by the sound, especially the attack which was much louder than the rest. I was recording at a low megaphone volume (3 of 10 I think) so there may have been some ‘natural’ voice bleeding in too. Anyway where would be without experimentation right? :-)
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Quote: KungFu…the rapid fire trigger sound just before the spoken-word starts.I heard that as you winding yourself up, like the music box.

Oh and I do like winding my self up. I am really bad for publishing stems of my remixes but I can certainly try if there is interest :-) Keep up the great work Speck I thoroughly enjoy your work and your very positive influence in this community of ours here :-)
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It was my pleasure working with such a great piece so rich in texture and creative tension. The poems were written while I worked with some pretty real characters and some of the trigger or seed lines were actual phrases or conversations I over heard while supporting these folks who were usually very high or very drunk or both. It should be noted that I worked in Recovery, a short term detox of sorts, certainly most of the folk who found themselves homeless were not addicts :-) Anyway, I digress. Thanks for a great track!
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I completely agree. There is lots of space to play with that track. It’s one of the hallmarks of a great track in which the ‘final’ piece has room to add something but shows the restraint not to add anything more. I think its called the Lou Reed philosophy :-) Its how I feel about your Phatman track. I started recording a bunch of complicated additions and found nothing was better than the original. That being said I may publish my discoveries soon if I can get some of my paying work done first :-)
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Yeah, you’ve identified a major issue: some tracks are great and make you want to join in, but then you think, “Mmm, what can I actually bring to this?” I feel like this a lot, but I post stuff anyway (with stems), figuring that someone else might make it work or do something completely different with the raw material. If we got half a dozen Mixters in the same room and jammed, then I guess everything would find its own level and maybe grow organically. I guess I think that ccMixter is a great resource for producers who can see/hear the latent possibilities in a bunch of samples.

I know exactly what you mean. It is some of the beautiful tension and texture of this site. You have such a large and solid collection of work that it was a little surprising that you had any submission struggles at all :-) Anyway, onward and upward!
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Thank you and I will do that straight-away :-)
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That’s great, thank you. Those words are worth being able to ponder and linger over. Extremely good writing, KF.

You are too kind but I am very glad you enjoyed it :-)
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She’s right you know, very good writing. (I’m re-visiting some older favorites tonight.) Hope you are well and wish you were here.