Giant Electric Flying Insect

A song about a common situation - you know, when you go out on a date and your girl gets kidnapped by a giant robot bug.

Recorded by my band. I was going to enter it in the October mefimusicchallenge but we didn't record it for that purpose so it seems a bit unfair. Also, this song features my solution to an AskMe question I posed about Japanese movie samples. In the end we just got the engineer (who is Japanese) to do some live overdubs.

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posted by awfurby (7 comments total)

Oh, you should totally add the challenge tag to this!

This is much more suave than I was expecting it to be. I especially like the riff that starts around 1:40.

I am a fan of samples that aren't -- I would have assumed that your engineer's contribution was a movie sample if you hadn't tipped your hand. Stroke of luck, though, huh?

What do you play in your band? You sound like one of those bands that puts on a show live.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 11:53 PM on October 30, 2008

Suave? Hey thanks. Ah yes the engineer is Koya Hisakazu who runs the Mark 1 Music Centre in Hong Kong, and he also plays bass in more bands than I can think of.

I'm playing all the fuzz guitar in the song. It's one of my favourite songs to play. :)
posted by awfurby at 1:41 AM on October 31, 2008

Just say yes to fuzz guitar! This is neat... I like the sense of urgency in the middle section.
posted by uncleozzy at 5:54 AM on October 31, 2008

Yeah, definitely add the tag. I posted an age-old song to the spy challenge just because I wanted to contribute and didn't have the time that month to record anything new.

Ooh, yeah, it just came in, and now I know what they were referring to, that riff is nice. Is that a theremin that comes in before the sample-non-sample?

It's funny, the sort of "narration" style of the voice kinda reminds me of The Doors, but the music has nothing to do with that. I like the song a lot. It evokes a lot of classic elements of rock, but in a new way.
posted by micayetoca at 7:04 AM on October 31, 2008

Theremin? Nope, that's my guitar played through a weird fuzzbox that has six oscillators and a CV pedal, plus some delay.
posted by awfurby at 11:03 PM on October 31, 2008

OK, I've added the tag. Hope that's all right...
posted by awfurby at 11:04 PM on October 31, 2008

Very cool.
posted by Sailormom at 8:31 AM on November 5, 2008