Name: ShakeWhatYouGot,'CauseSomeOthersGotLess!!
Duration: 5 min 7 s
Channel: Lawrence Wise
Description: "ShakeWhatYouGot,'CauseSomeOthersGotLess!!" is a song by Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS. The (infamous) FULL 'Cosmic Funk Orchestra-ALBUM Version'. More silliness; more jamming; more funk!

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The (infamous) FULL 'Cosmic Funk Orchestra-ALBUM Version'. More silliness; more jamming; more funk!

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Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS

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

R&B • Funk

Author

Lawrence Wise

Rights

1989, 2009

Uploaded

July 17, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.7 MB • 128 kbps • 5:07

Story behind the song

Originally, there was NO LYRICS to "Shake What You Got.....", just the jam.  It's simple---

and one of the HANDFUL of  instrumentals I've ever done with ONE TRACK and in ONE TAKE--it shows (if it was done 'aircheck' instead of directly into the mixer, it would be considered LIVE).  

As for the LYRICS:  it's just that simple 'Title Chant' ("Shake What You Got, 'Cause Some Others Got Less!!"), with a couple of other phrases tossed in, creating a 5:00 minute P-Funk-Styled jam.  This is the FULL Album version.

NOW:  in February of 1990, I cut it down to 2:58 minutes, and issued it as a Cassette-Single under the 'bandname' "OSMOSIS".  It's B-Side was "Now, For Something Different"--an instrumental jam, which was STILL listed under the "Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra" 'bandname'.

Yep, a 'double-sided' Single as "OSMOSIS" and "Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra".

And if you think THAT was something, later that year (August, 1990) there were TWO Versions of "Lesbian Tendencies" as A-Sides:  The first one was "Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra", while the second (and wilder!)one--2 1/2 weeks later!!--was "OSMOSIS".  

N-Joy The Funk.

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