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Skeletor, you cheeky rascal.

By lament.config on May 26, 2024 12:17 pm

I was listening to early Black Lung this week in which Thrussell would write dark ambient music played over various political speeches and thought I'd give that a shot for week 21...just with more Masters of the Universe characters.  Leaned really heavily into Freakshow Industries plugin Backmask for this track.

Vocal track taken from the 1984 "documentary" Deception of a Generation (in public domain)
Made in Ableton
Hail Skeletor!

The vocal ping-pong and constant flipping between reverse and normal playback was awesome. Looks like the Satanic panic of the 80's was good for something after all.

I'll raise you, and do one for Thundercats, just so I can use the tag "Mumm-Ra"

Love the instant cinematic feel you get from the drone.  The vocals nail that feeling even more.  The effects are awesome on the vocals.  The tape hiss and bouncing vocals are so moody and gave me some goosebumps.  Hell yais on that outro tongue  Excellent drone sound and love what you do with it in ableton.  Nice work! 

Whoa! Really cool recording, and the sample treatment was suitably creepy. Made me itchy as I heard a lot of this propaganda as a kid. I wasn't actually allowed to watch MOTU and I'm sure it was because of talks like this, if not this specific talk.
Nice work!

I love the sample treatment in this! The  chopping and reversing is perfect. The drone underneath is just *chef’s kiss*.

(Ah, the Satanic Panic. Some kids snuck off to their friends houses to drink. I snuck off to play D&D.)

Beefpounder wrote:

The vocal ping-pong and constant flipping between reverse and normal playback was awesome. Looks like the Satanic panic of the 80's was good for something after all.

I'll raise you, and do one for Thundercats, just so I can use the tag "Mumm-Ra"

Fuck yeah hahaha, that would fun to hear.  Thanks as always man.



Tone Matrix wrote:

Love the instant cinematic feel you get from the drone.  The vocals nail that feeling even more.  The effects are awesome on the vocals.  The tape hiss and bouncing vocals are so moody and gave me some goosebumps.  Hell yais on that outro tongue  Excellent drone sound and love what you do with it in ableton.  Nice work!

Thank you, that's the effect I was aiming for.  Funnily the only thing I did on the outro was add a little reverb, that was the host using the microphone on the Skull Mountain toy haha.



jwh wrote:

Whoa! Really cool recording, and the sample treatment was suitably creepy. Made me itchy as I heard a lot of this propaganda as a kid. I wasn't actually allowed to watch MOTU and I'm sure it was because of talks like this, if not this specific talk.
Nice work!

Thank you, I hope it was a fun creepy.  MOTU was basically just a toy commercial with odd PSA's at the end, She-Ra on the other hand really holds up.


Paisleyfrog wrote:

I love the sample treatment in this! The  chopping and reversing is perfect. The drone underneath is just *chef’s kiss*.

(Ah, the Satanic Panic. Some kids snuck off to their friends houses to drink. I snuck off to play D&D.)

haha, awesome.  I had all three - a metal head who watched horror movies and played D&D.  Obviously I was wildly popular heh.  Thanks for listening

Fun creepy, yes smile

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