The band Turkey Fingers exist only my mind and in the digital realm, but I thought I should credit the performers and the recordings.
Turkey Fingers “Wave a white ribbon…Why Should the boys hands freeze? I felt hungry…”
A.Y. Garnisova : vocals
A.I Kazakov : vocals
A. Gurdeyova : vocals
Joe “fingers” Carr : piano
W. “pee-wee” Gerhardt Hunt III : trombone
The three vocalists are from the album pictured “Folk Music of the Finno-Ugrik and Turkik peoples”. The three vocals used are from Singers in the Tartar Region of southern russia in either ‘68 or ‘70. The first two verses (and first two vocalists listed, respectively) are uncut and at the 3rd has two cuts only. All three are at the proper pitch and speed. I added the harmony vocal on the last verse by pitching my self up 4 steps, i have no idea what i am saying and the only listed lyrics for the tatar singers are the title in quotations at the top, in order.
The music is made from two loops from the record “Pee-Wee and Fingers” by Joe “fingers” Carr and W. “pee-wee” Gerhardt Hunt III slowed down quite a bit. The bass is made from a sample of the piano and the back beat is made from me hitting a Glenfiddich scotch can that has contact mic’s on it and then run through an amp.
I wish i could finagle a few more tracks out of this band but I think i just got lucky the once.
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If anyone has any ideas what to call this, let me know, for now it’s untitled…..
Untitled (finno-ugrag)
A straightforward mashup/screw, 50 cent’s “In da club” with Lawrence Welk’s “Bubbles in the wine”. Pitched 50 down, and fudged a few things, and voila!
Bubb in da club
Forrest Baum (DJ Prizmatic) did the visual mashup (look closer!)
The guy apparently didn’t know what kind of JACKPOT he was sitting on, or maybe I’m a little weird……..
There’s all kinds of bad instrumentals and acapellas, things like “X-tended euromix” etc. Ima go craaazy!
Mashup between Lil’ John and The Guess Who
I guess it’s Lil’ John
At least it’s short.
well, i mean, breakcore isn’t boring by any means but…i don’t know, that’s just what i decided to call this mix. i actually like it a lot.
one (8cylinder, blaerg, pimmon)
two (timeblind, filastine, the pharmacy)
three (the beans, the h8ters)
four (frank zappa, dr. lefty)
five (dj crackhouse, bombardier)
six (hrvatski, yes please)
seven (zammuto, baron knoxbury)
eight (beautiful addicts)
nine (some billie holliday remix, /rupture)
my peach is pickled pointed out to me earlier this evening that even though the songs are in a 1 thru 9 order i should say to play them together. so if you don’t know now you know.
just a few older things i realized weren’t up here for download. these are four of the first few things i made. enjoy!
i am the ardest rasclat jamaican in the united states of america
i made this when i’d recently moved to dumpville, population me. it was the second thing i’d done.
lots of better question marks
tom waits vs. tokyo police club (with some people like us/matmos/wobbly thrown in)
in da light
50 cent vs. Mirah
waves of american moon cocaine
i think i made this because i really wanted to hear some cat power and some pixies.
I have always guessed that the chipmunks records made by playing the backing tracks at 1/2 speed while the singers sing REALLY slow. And I am almost positive this is how it was done. I took “Mr. Tamborine Man” and slowed it to 1/2 speed, as it would’ve been while the singers were tracking. The quality is weak, it was a 24 kbps mp3 that i got from April Winchell’s site, and then at 1/2 speed it’s a 12 kbps mp3?It’s kinda creepy though. If anyone has any Chipmunks records, please let me borrow them or rip them for me at HIGH quality, so I can make some more of these.
Chipmunks at 1/2 speed-”Mr. Tamborine Man”
Newly completed webpage for your to downloading pleasure. 20 musician/producer types (including 6 hollow earth DJ’s) Participated in a project/game sponsored by Beep Repaired
This is the second in a series of quarterly games/projects Brought to you by Beep Repaired. The First was the Harry Candy Game that became Ball of Wax no.11.
Participants were to find the “worst” or “most unusuable” 12″ vinyl record they could and make 2 different songs with different rules/parameters. The result is 38 tracks that are actually really good even though everyone was quite successful in finding really bad records. All the tracks are available for free download at whiteelephant.beeprepaired.com
Also Canned Fruit (wed. 9-11) has a blog with tons of downloads, links, and playlists at cannedfruit.org
Wednesday’s set will be the entirety of the White Elephant Record Exchange Project. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 38 tracks and at least 95 minutes of music (the votes are still out). This project (as is this blog) is hosted and sponsored by Beep Repaired a lovely group of individuals who make and support tons of great music and art in the Seattle area and beyond, many thanks to all of them. Also Thanks to Jason Kopec of noise | order for help developing the idea and putting together the site that is linked here, where all the tracks will remain for free download starting this thursday, 03/20. The cute lil’ elephant is by David Bratton.
The White Elephant Record Exchange Project was
undertaken by 20 individuals in the late part of
January 2008. The project involved sampling,
composition, and ultimately all kinds of editing and
manipulation of various original source material.
Participants were first to find the “worst” and “most
unusable” 12″ vinyl record possible and hand it off to
the curator. Those records were then distributed to
the participants insuring everyone received a
different record than the one they submitted. After
receiving this record, the first goal was to complete
one song.
SONG A
The point of Song A was to compose a piece of around 1
minute, 30 seconds through editing and creative
playback of the record alone. No pitch adjustment,
time stretching, compression, or any digital effects
were allowed in this phase of the project. This meant
that the participant could basicly just cut and paste,
do a bit of layering, and then adjust track levels.
It was essentially an exercise in composition to see
what each individual could create with supposedly
“unusable” source material and very limited
constraints.
Those songs were all finished and then given back to
the curator. Once all the songs were gathered, they
were then redistributed back to the original person
that submitted the 12″ vinyl. For example, if you
submitted Led Zepplin “III” as your album, you then
got the remixed, cut-up piece someone created from
that album. Then the Song B phase began.
SONG B
The creation of this song had no boundaries
whatsoever. The idea was now to allow each
participant total freedom (without the diffcult
constraints of the Song A phase) to create a remix of
someone else’s Song A piece.
