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Unless You Wanna Get On Your Knees
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The opening track to 'THE TOKYO CONNECTION' (1982, 1983), and one of the wildest, freakiest post-FUNKADELIC tracks ever.
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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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Alternative • Experimental
Author
Lawrence Wise
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1982, 1983, 2007
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October 06, 2007
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MP3 7.7 MB • 112 kbps • 9:37
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Sequence-wise, "Unless You Wanna Get On Your Knees (One Nation On The One)" was one of the last 3 tracks recorded for "THE TOKYO CONNECTION"-sessions in July 1982. It was MY version of George Clinton and Funkadelic's "LOOPZILLA" (which came out on a CAPITOL 12-inch Single about late June 1982). In MY case (since I was young and stupid at 18-going-on-19 at the time), I decided to experiment with overdubbing my voice--in this case, 3 Times over!! I had NO Real Lyrics, just the chant (which I picked up from "LOOPZILLA")--'Unless You Wanna Get On Your Knees, Throw Down!'. Of course, I added another PART to that chant to make it my own. I do reference a couple of tracks from "THE TOKYO CONNECTION" album: "Godzilla (The Big Bad Rapper)", "Rock And Roll In Tokyo (Computer Chip)", and "The Tokyo Connection (America VS. Japan)"; as well as the TWO main tracks from the previous Cassette-Album "FUNKENDECTOMY" ("Everybody Jam" and "Talk Nasty With Me", respectively). It's on THIS Track (like I said, this was all done well over a generation ago!) that I debuted the lyrics to "I Love You (Everytime You Get Down)", which was supposed to be a ballad on "FUNKENDECTOMY", but never got around to doing it. That was the ONLY Time those lyrics were used... until "Enchanted Gown (She's Magic)" about a month ago. (gestating for 25-years! Damn!). As for the track's status: I DID try a 'single-edit', which SUCKED (simply because it was too frenetic and impossible, due to the vocals), so I 'ditched' that prospect, leaving it as a weird 10-minute freak-out. (the weird "ROCK! ROCK-DON'T STUN!!" in the second part of the track is One Vocal saying "ROCK! ROCK, DON'T STOP!!" and one vocal saying "BOP GUN! BOP GUN!!" simultaneously.) This is also one of the tracks that I still wish I had BOTH the Backing Instrumental, and/or the divided-track master-- so, nonetheless, I amped-it-up and cleared-it-up the best that I could. Finally: This track marks the Very First Time I used what would become a Cosmic Funk Orchestra trademark: that rising opening/rising bass-note opening. The final result: well, if you think that OSMOSIS's "No Shit Sherlock!!-'Get Down'!!" was a odd one, just remember one thing........ THAT TRACK was recorded just over 8 1/2 Years after THIS 'proto-OSMOSIS' thang. Translation: I kinda KNEW what I was doing when I did EVERY 'freak-out' after "Unless You Wanna Get On Your Knees". R-U-A-Frayed Yet?! N-Joy this (very, very EARLY)'Cosmic Funk' throwdown.
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