Comments on: Giant Electric Flying Insect

Giant Electric Flying Insect

awfurby — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:07:04 -0800

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.

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:53:10 -0800

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.

By: awfurby

awfurby — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:41:40 -0800

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. :)

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:54:04 -0800

Just say yes to fuzz guitar! This is neat... I like the sense of urgency in the middle section.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:04:18 -0800

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.

By: awfurby

awfurby — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:03:25 -0800

Theremin? Nope, that's my guitar played through a weird fuzzbox that has six oscillators and a CV pedal, plus some delay.

By: awfurby

awfurby — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:04:28 -0800

OK, I've added the tag. Hope that's all right...

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:31:53 -0800

Very cool.