The Gorilla
By Paisleyfrog on April 26, 2024 10:29 pm
Back to noisy music!
I was in Goodwill checking out the toy aisle (as one does), when I found a musical mechanical gorilla. What made it special was that the batteries were almost dead, so it produced this otherworldly scream when it was on its back. In theory, it played Rock and Roll Part 1, but there's no way you could tell by listening to it. Anyway, the gorilla didn't follow me home, but a recording of it did...and I knew that it needed to be the noise bed for this week's track.
When I started working, I thought it would be funny to use samples from The Gorilla (1939, public domain, awful) to double down on the theme.
I've had Dub on the brain since Record Store Day (although alas, I was not able to get one of the Lee Perry albums for this year), so I ended up going in something of that direction. (Connection with the theme: Lee Perry's album "Super Ape".) There's also more than a little influence from Gorillaz here.
It's apes all the way down, man.
TD-3
VSMini Pro
RD-6
XV-5080
Guitar
Bass
And assorted soft synths
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
