Tunelujah

You won't be able to escape this in the clubs this summer. Unless you just stay away, which is what I recommend.

With apologies to abc123xyzinfinity, of course. If I hadn't been 90% through this when I saw his track, I might not have finished it.

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posted by uncleozzy (14 comments total)

Wow your production skills amaze me uncleozzy. This is disgustingly well done, I kinda get the feeling you've done songs like this before and haven't told any of us. This needs to be on DDR.
posted by BrnP84 at 7:03 PM on June 13

*genuflects*
posted by umbú at 9:00 PM on June 13

You're MetaFilter's own Haddaway! This rules.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 1:28 AM on June 14

great synth solo. exactly what this treatment needed!
posted by man vs sun at 7:04 AM on June 14

I don't see this most excellent version with the other tagged covers. Please to add?
posted by NemesisVex at 7:08 AM on June 14

My god, this is amazing. It's as though this song were written to be done this way.
posted by ORthey at 6:31 PM on June 14

You're like the Zelig of music.
This is so awful it's perfect. My own personal hell of music is music that sounds like galloping.
Well done.
posted by chococat at 9:30 PM on June 14

autotune! awesome.
posted by mexican at 12:19 AM on June 15

*takes off shoes, joins the genuflection*
posted by micayetoca at 4:50 AM on June 15

Ha, glad you guys dug this. Really, I wanted to test an idea I had for an autotune plugin stack. Logic's built-in pitch correction plugin is not particularly well-suited to this application, so I thought I'd stick some effects ahead of it to make it angry. I really like the result... well, at least as much as you can like a thing like that. (That kick drum is really lame, though; there's an 808 hiding under there, but it's not hitting at all. Oh well.)
posted by uncleozzy at 5:51 AM on June 15

No need to apologize, I must bow before the autotune!!! And while you might not like it, your kick makes me jealous. (what's an 808?)
posted by abc123xyzinfinity at 2:44 AM on June 17

808, man! There's a sampled 808 kick layered underneath the clicky one for some thump, but I cocked up the mix on this track pretty badly. The first mix was really boomy (the wide, grindy bass was eating up all the low end), so I tweaked that and multiband compressed it to even things out, but never listened again on a system with a subwoofer (or with fresh ears). The result is that there's not enough tight bass in the kick to hit you in the chest like it should. If I weren't just doing this for the lulz, I'd have to remix it. I might need to add a sub to my monitoring situation.
posted by uncleozzy at 6:09 AM on June 17

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaha. I loved this.
posted by davejay at 4:39 PM on June 19

im so pissed that you did this becuase I wanted to do this


oh well
awesome job.
i might do a crunk version.
posted by ichthuz at 11:02 AM on June 23