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Reviews for "Anxiety Zoo"

Anxiety Zoo
by spinningmerkaba
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Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 11:53 AM
 
panu
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permalink   Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 12:17 PM
excellent piece!!! +++
 
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permalink   spinningmerkaba Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 6:31 PM
Thanks! reaally speck made it easy
Snowflake
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permalink   Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 12:40 PM
You’ve unlocked the cage with this complex, musical simplicity. (Still, I’d love to hear the other mix you worked up too!) Very cool panning treatments and combining of Speck’s expansive ingredient cupboard. I’m walking down to catch the NYC subway, and stop when I hear THIS.
 
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permalink   spinningmerkaba Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 6:35 PM
You’ve unlocked the cage with this complex, musical simplicity. (Still, I’d love to hear the other mix you worked up too!) Very cool panning treatments and combining of Speck’s expansive ingredient cupboard. I’m walking down to catch the NYC subway, and stop when I hear THIS.
duckett
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permalink   Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 1:14 PM
You’ve very much grokked that which is Speck- I’m really liking the evolution of it, how both the backing and spoken-word subtly shift and morph as it progresses.
 
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permalink   spinningmerkaba Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 6:38 PM
I love the word grokked! Thanks Duckett!
 
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permalink   duckett Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 7:24 PM
I had a feeling you might appreciate that ;)
ScOmBer
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permalink   Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 2:29 PM
I’d be really anxious drawing Speck. Great job Jace
 
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permalink   spinningmerkaba Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 6:45 PM
Thanks Scomber! The Speckness had to shine through and I’m glad it did. Really, I just had to get out of the way and let his work do its thing.
gurdonark
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permalink   Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 5:31 PM
This has a kind of latter-day-beat feel that I like.
 
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permalink   spinningmerkaba Sun, Nov 18, 2018 @ 6:49 PM
A sign of the times perhaps? Speck has a way of capturing this feel.
Speck
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permalink   Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 3:42 AM
That’s a great combination of tracks. When I did that spoken word piece I looked for something to read it to but gave up and uploaded it bare. You found a good one.
 
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permalink   spinningmerkaba Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 8:29 AM
You’ve got a lot of great material to choose from. I thought the words and the tone of Quiet Confusion worked well together. They have the same edge. I enjoyed listening to your secret mix btw. Nice work!
Kara Square
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permalink   Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 8:24 AM
YES!!! Totally captivating combo… brilliantly suited. Love this. I hadn’t heard this spoken word from Speck… it’s SO COOL. Thanks for highlighting it with your groovy merger.
 
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permalink   spinningmerkaba Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 8:37 AM
When I heard Betty’s Burgundy Dress I was drawn in by the texture of the word. It’s great as it is. When I laid it in on Quiet Confusion, well, it just added that extra color.
 
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permalink   Speck Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 9:08 AM
Thought you might be interested in what the spoken word actually is.

Basically a writing exercise. Based on my memory of having read John Lennon’s A Spaniard In The Works long ago in which he replaces words with similar sounding words. I thought I’d take Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (random choice) and go through it phrase by phrase, changing it as I go to whatever came into my mind that sounded similar, not being too concerned about logic.
 
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permalink   Kara Square Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 9:18 AM
HA! What a fun writing exercise! Thanks for sharing!
urmymuse
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permalink   Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 10:42 AM
Well you got the key to a great track!! Excellent
 
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permalink   spinningmerkaba Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 10:45 AM
It feels great when the lock turns!
robwalkerpoet
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permalink   Mon, Nov 19, 2018 @ 6:03 PM
Such a creative morphing of two of my long-time ccmixter favorites! We can hear the unique styles of both Speck and spinngmerkaba in this - yet the sum is greater than the parts!