A huge 10+minute centerpiece to 'THE ICE AGE' cassette-album from 1984/1985.
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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.
Song Info
Genre
Beats • Beats General
Charts
Peak #567
Peak in subgenre #20
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1984, 1985, 2007
Uploaded
October 13, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 8.4 MB • 112 kbps • 10:26
Story behind the song
Here we go with an extremely rare "LIVE" (in-the-studio-into-the-amplifier) track. It was all done in just that One Take using the Casio MT-200 (still new, and was breaking it in!) on a dreary Saturday in June 1984. That humongous 4-speaker bass/PA amp of mine made it feel like I was in a concert hall--even though it happened in my bedroom (heh heh). The only true part of the song is the 'violin hook' found in the first 2 1/2 minutes-- everything else was improvised from that. I simply cut loose, which makes it fun and lively. But on the real side; it DOES, kinda, sound like KRAFTWERK on a Red Bull-and-Schnapps bender! (ha ha!!)
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Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS
Aug 24, 2009
That track is probably one of the 3 LIVE (on-the-spot-in-the-studio) tracks I've done (and posted). Just me, my Casio MT-400V (the 1983 large model with the filters), a flat table-top dictation tape recorder, a 60-minute High Bias Chrome cassette, and my huge 4-speaker bass amp, in my nearly empty bedroom (for the extra concert hall effect). No music sheet or lyrics-- I just went for it for 10+ minutes, all improvisation on a overcast late afternoon in July, 1984. You see, I just brought that keyboard only 2 weeks earlier, and I really wanted to break it in. I DID, and yes, I STILL use that bad boy today. (Most of my new Cosmic Funk Orchestra project, "2087-UNITED PLANETARY FUNK", is being made on it.)