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RockAndRollInTokyo (Computer Chip)
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The HIGHLIGHT of a strange 'concept album'.
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
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Genre
Beats Rock
Peak in subgenre #97
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1983, 2007
Uploaded
April 21, 2007
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MP3 4.9 MB 128 kbps 5:20
Story behind the song
"Rock and Roll In Tokyo (Computer Chip)" isn't even a single!! Still, it's probably the best cut (and most famous) off of my first 'concept album', "The Tokyo Connection" (January, 1983). Recorded 'semi-LIVE' (the drums, 'guitar' and bass, all on Casio Mt-68, all at once) with a 14-inch tall 12-watt amp pointed in the direction of a mono table-top cassette-recorded located at the far end of the room (now, THAT'S 'analog recording', ya'll!!), with the synthesizer solo dubbed-in afterwards, "RNRIT" was innovative in that it kinda introduced a 'new sound'--I called it 'Piano-tar' (Piano/Guitar effect). What it resulted in was a 'Heavy Metal'-type sound, with a new-wave twist (remember, this WAS 1982!!). I've since used that effect in quite a few other Cosmic Funk Orchestra tracks over the years, but THIS is the 'original'. It's been very hard to 'repeat' this effect to it's fullest (and believe me, I have TRIED!).
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