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NEW Lady App-titude Track: "Too Modern"
The wait is over!
Check out the NEW Lady App-titude single, “Too Modern”. Listen for FREE on Bandcamp:
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(While it’s FREE to listen, we do ask that you consider making a purchase, if possible, to help cover time and expenses, which in this case involved hiring additional outside players — so this track starts off at a deficit and will take a lot just to break even! Thanks in advance for any and all support!)
You are one ridiculously funky human.
Can I ask, is the bass line from a stringed instrument and is that you rapping?
I love this track.
As usual, great work here @Lady_App_titude 😎
Bandcamp shows a credit for Special Guest Rapper: Bind Dare
Rap Lyrics:
Are you caught up yet? Cuz this beat is breakin’ modern (Moderne)
Catch it on the next wave? Bitch, don’t bother (Concerne)
Get up. Wake up from yer coma (Coma?)
This groove’s so hype it could be hangin’ in MoMA (MoMA)
Goin’ hard like a wild beast (Le Fauve)
Bustin’ avant garde like Herni Matisse (Nouveau)
Paintin’ revolutions with a masterstroke
Cuz it ain’t no joke gettin’ MoMA folk woke
Always on the latest (En vogue)
Fashion gods are gonna save us (We pray.)
Imitate the rich and famous (Why don’t you..)
Innovate like Miles Davis (He slays.)
No time for taking lessons
No time for asking how
Cuz time is of the essence
And the Time. Is. Now.
Ha! Thanks, Ben!
The bass.. I sampled one note from my Fender bass, then I took it into Kontakt and played it from a keyboard. (Nerdy details: I used the MPC60 sample engine in Kontakt, which may have added some old skool vibe. Then I sprinkled in a touch of Soundtoys Little Radiator, which can be that special sauce in the right context.)
The rap.. I wrote the lyrics, but the performer was a hired gun.
Thanks Moderndaycompiler! You make my day Modern! ..and compiled.
This one made me dance like most of your singles (which I have collected via BandCamp) but it also
made me chuckle out loud. Any very little has lately. Where did the narration track come from? YouTube?
Your rap is epic. I Googled Bind Dare and got didn't find any clues.
Ha! Thx, @McD. Can't give away all the secrets, but I can tell you that I first started working on this track way back in the 80s. What kinda jumpstarted me into finally finishing it was the iOptigan app, which provided that essential retro-modern element I needed. (I actually ran across a real Opitigan a couple of times over the years, but bitch, please. Impossible. Makes a Mellotron seem easy.)
The rap was some online session-for-hire type. I've worked with other kinds of players remotely before, but it can be especially hard with vocals. You could bang out this kind of thing in the studio in less than an hour. If there's something not right you have immediate feedback: "Like this?" "No, like this." "Ok, got it." But with the online thing, it's like paying upfront for someone to audition for your track. Yes, they have posted examples, so you get some idea of what their voice is like going into it, but those examples are never anything like my track! You have no idea what they will sound like until you actually hear them on your material.
Then there's like a 3-day turnaround time. So you get back something. It's got numerous things wrong with it. You try to describe that to them in text. You wait several days, then you get another take..
It was pretty excruciating. Pronunciation, pitch, inflection, emphasis, timing... All that had to be tweaked down to the level of individual words sometimes. Admittedly, this was not your typical rap. Foreign terms, highly specific levels of subtle irony and attitude trying to get across... But after like 5 rounds, stretching over a couple of WEEKS, and LOTS and LOTS of editing and processing, I was finally able to get to the slick final result that you hear.
Great story. I've seen a few examples of this type of on-line musician for hire but it sounds painful.
I do hope you break even quickly.
I heard the details of how Lil' Was created "Old Town Road" and it had several transactions like this to get the backing track and for session time.
I just watched the James Brown bio-pic and he routed around the local Promoters to keep the gate
at his early shows and used low paid local DJ's to do the show promotion and he paid them.
So good.
Thanks!
If you're working with someone you've worked with before, and it can be not so bad. But when you're just some overdub session on some stranger's computer and you're not even in the room to know what's going on, it can be hit or miss. But that's the world we're in just now.
Ha! Not even close! In fact, I want to use vocals on my next two projects, so even if I did, it would be already-spent-on-the-next-project on arrival.
Very funky indeed! In terms of constructive criticism, I think the rap could have come in earlier, and maybe been repeated, the early instrumental section went on a little long for me. Really good stuff though.
I'm glad there's more coming.
Another graphics masterpiece. You really popped the clutch on this one. Pedal to the metal.
Ha! Thx. I had some extra time to work on cover concepts this time, and ended up with too many choices. In the old days of physical media, the alternates could be used for the "inside" or "back" cover. So I decided to use the extra art for promo posts, as it were. Not that it made any real difference or made things go viral or anything, but it seemed a shame not to make some use of the leftover art, so..
I think your campaign proves your capabilities if there's anyone still looking for talent. If I managed
a singer I'd definitely seek you out for a classic "album" approach to a project. You have a lot of
Todd Rungren skills: musician, producer, arranger, graphic artist.
You have a modest body of work worth being proud of.
That was fun!
Tooooooooooooooooo... modern!
Made me smile!
Great track ! When on Spotify ?
"Please DO feed the artists".
Great stuff!
Tha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-anks , @Paulieworld ! !
Thx, @ALB !
Oh sure, you only love me for my modest body.
"She gets too hungry... for dinner at 8."
Oh man, streaming services? Just seems like the worst thing ever for the artist. I don't use any of them. FYI, anybody who posts music here with a Spotify link, I will never hear it, since I have never used Spotify or Apple music, much less Tidal, or whatever.
Soundcloud is like ... You get only very basic functionality with a free account, and you have no way to monetize. And if you want more control, like the ability to update or change the order of songs, you have to pay THEM, it's like the artist is the content, but the artist has to pay for the gallery to show it.
Facebook is basically a joke. You post a piece of original music that you worked on for months and you get like 4 likes after 24 hours. Meanwhile, you post a picture of a skin rash and it's like instant 50 likes and comments.
Youtube is something I need to expand into more, but videos take so much time.. Still something I need to look into more.
Suffice it to say, all things considered, Bandcamp seems the best solution I've found currently. And they have even been doing one day a month where they waive their cut and give 100% to the artist.
Anyway, thanks so much cuscolima for the love and support!
Let us know when that day comes up so we feel better about the pitiful tip you have to split.
I can only imagine what your YouTube productions would be like... and I'm smiling just thinking about what you'd come up with using iMovie or Final Cut Pro or any video editing tool. I suspect you picked something 10 years ago and have never budged since learning it (Sony Vegas, Adobe Premier, Lumen5, Nero, Pinnacle, Corel...).
I believe it's the first Friday of the month. It's not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things (15% more for the artist), but it's a wonderful gesture on their part, and well worth supporting. It also gives the artist a deadline to shoot for, to try to time new releases.
I did some googling..
I guess the official name is Bandcamp Fridays. Here's the schedule for the rest of 2020 and a link for full deets:
Bandcamp Fridays 2020 Calendar:
August 7, 2020
September 4, 2020
October 2, 2020
November 6, 2020
December 4, 2020
https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/update-on-bandcamp-fridays
We should make this a thread and list all the creators that have a tip jar on Bandcamp to
get the artists an extra $5 every month to defray the costs of a new Reverb app.