thanks for your feedback Feddo! i guess my kick and bass were really buried. i remixed my remix and would love your input on my aim to improve it! thanks so much. :)

Little late but I just listened to the updated version sounds much better!!

your visualization is the same as mine! i remixed my remix and it is less minimalistic now — not sure if that is a good or bad thing? i left the understated mix up too as an alternate mix. thanks for your feedback!!

thank you! your parts were really integral to the melodies. :)

it was wonderful to have your voice part of this creation - and your imagery was so viscerally clear, i felt i needed to continue it…..

Quote: Mind Map That!Okay… LOVE IT. Seriously cool. I can totally picture the dancing, marching gnomes (thanks Admiral) and the gnarled, creepy tree… I’m completely jazzed to have helped inspire this innovative and creative blurred idea… Extra jazzed that it includes Abstract, spinningM, PorchCat, Lessig, and your awesome vocals/ lyrics… DITTO….lol Said it all!

hey FPB - thanks so much! (have i mentioned how much i love your pell for this project? listened to you in the car todiay!) i actually put up a new mix today — with the kick and bass up. i left the thin mix up too - not sure which i like better - too close to it. :/

I prefer the “thin” version myself. Not that the thumping new one doesn’t have its charms. I was in your car today? Hope my Babies behaved themselves.

your babies made us all smile :) yea, maybe i should try to split the difference between the dance mix and no bass at all. any ideas on how to do that?

Thank you, snowflake. If it were me adding the percussion, I’d do it all on my Korg Wavedrum. Alternately, I’d add interesting live hits and fills from my drum set. Just in certain spots to add emphasis. I realize you may not have access to either of these devices; so I’m at a bit of a loss.

i do not have those devices, but i love hearing more about tools and trades of others :)

i just put a new version of the mix with the kick and bass turned up quite a bit. not sure it is right? thanks for your kind words!

My ears are not what they once were…lol So I’ll say this..Your vocals are to die for!!!They are coming through crystal clear and you have a most beautiful voice!

thank you! :)

great idea! we were listening to some of your mixes today - who are the musicians you work with? amazing stuff.

Thanks, Emily.

Wrt working in real-time with musicians, it’s usually me creating songs or song parts with ElRon coming by on Friday nights to (re)arrange, mix or record. ElRon and I play/record lots of parts. I also program lots of instrument MIDI parts and vst plugin parameters/control/automation. ElRon created MIDI input for “Move Your Body”. Some of the songs, like “Radio Moscow” and “James Brown d’Funk” were literally pieced together and MIDI programmed a note and phrase at a time, then we recorded on them.

Besides ElRon XChile, who has been playing guitar and bass with me since the early 1970s, some of the audio is provided by producers, musicians and vocalists via licensed audio recordings from pro studios, licensed samples/loops, free material downloaded from the internet and, of course, ccMixter. We started using ccMixter samples years before joining the party “:0) Over the years, we’ve amassed a huge IP clean, royalty-free sample/loop library, which is still growing.

Some of the pro audio is provided by well known and not so well known folks like Tower of Power members, Morcheeba, Laurie Webb, Mandy Edge, David Byrne, Slap Johnson (sax), Doru Malaia, Mick Berry (drums), Jason Gianni (drums), Mike Kalajian (drums), etc. We use pro drummers whenever practical. Makes the home grown parts sound mo’ better. The drums on “Why” were derived from studio tracks provided by Gemini Productions in El Paso based on what the owner heard on ccMixter. He said, “see what you can do with this STUFF.” “Morning Emerges, “Move Your Body”, “Take Two Shots” and “Wiggle Room” were mixed with the help of West Texan, Eddies880. ElRon has twice invited local guitar players to record: William Frick on “Take Two Shots” and Danny Douglas on “Too Slide 4 Wiggle Room”. And, the story goes on …

Just put the STUFF in the creative cauldron and stir!

impressive. you are really taking collaboration to a new level here at ccM. thanks so much for sharing the details. i’m feeling inspired….

thanks Vidian! it should be there now :)