Another lightly edited and excerpted email exchange. I should have posted this one first; ahh, welp…
2023 April 12 – From: Howie – To: Cory
Subject: picked out FX for buckaroo bonanza
might perform them tonight. i’d forgotten i added this cool
little extra sample that really makes it. i don’t remember if the last
version you heard had the “yeah, yeah!” in it but it rules. anyway. 2
more songs of FX (buckaroo, ice/disappear), then doing some vocal sample
performances into the computer, then mix/master! we’re pretty close to
being able to hear the whole record and i’m really excited about that,
because i don’t know what it’s going to sound or feel like to hear all
these different tracks in one go. -h
2023 April 12 – From: Cory – To: Howie
I don’t think so on the “yeah, yeah!” but a little sprinkle of sample is always tasty! Love them extra touches, Uncle Grabby!
It’s crazy how quickly this record came together, at least from the outside! Obviously a lot of time and work goes into it, but this kind of music seems less gnarly than something with full drums and winding arrangements. And 27 sax-trax.
Spring is here and it’s beautiful outside and my head is full of fluid!
2023 April 12
it’s been fairly quick-ish? not as quick as a New Synth Record, but a lot quicker than a guitar record. i think the 404mkII arrived about a year ago (i ordered it when it came out in oct/nov ’21, but there were production delays). and it took a while to kind of learn and come up with a workflow. or it felt like it did… but i had the first 5 songs done by christmas, because over the break i set up and did a bunch of guitar parts for songs 6-10.
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