Anders Enger Jensen | Robots 'R' Us @AndersEngerJensen | Uploaded 14 years ago | Updated 2 hours ago
Remake of an old synthpop song I made back in 1995. Originally composed on the Technics KN2000.
Re-recorded using MOTU Digital Performer 7.21, Superior Drummer 2.0, Yamaha XS-7, Roland XP-60/80/JD800/D50 and the signature sounds from the Technics KN 2000 (African Mallet and Click Square++).
The mix is just a rawmix as is via the LS9-32 into the iShowU HD Pro software...and the levels ended up being a little low (been here all day listening at loud volume too long :P) - a proper mix might come later if I get around to do it ;)
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Remake of an old synthpop song I made back in 1995. Originally composed on the Technics KN2000.
Re-recorded using MOTU Digital Performer 7.21, Superior Drummer 2.0, Yamaha XS-7, Roland XP-60/80/JD800/D50 and the signature sounds from the Technics KN 2000 (African Mallet and Click Square++).
The mix is just a rawmix as is via the LS9-32 into the iShowU HD Pro software...and the levels ended up being a little low (been here all day listening at loud volume too long :P) - a proper mix might come later if I get around to do it ;)
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
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![Shame [Feat. Paulee Alex Bow]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NYFjj8N7Evs/hqdefault.jpg "Shame [Feat. Paulee Alex Bow]
Back in 2018 a good friend of mine, Paulee Alex Bow, asked me if I wanted to finish off a song idea he had. I said yes of course and took his recorded midi-bass, piano chords, vocals and guitars and left the rest to me.
Using a lot of Yamaha and Roland outboards as well as Nexus2, Vengeance, Phalanx and some other stuff. I treated the vocals as best I can since he likes to record gritty and stuttery distortion vocals. I also had to fatten them up a little for the chorus using pitch shift, phase alignment and some chorus. Lots of Valhalla reverb as well as my trusty Strymon BigSky.
The song you hear is the result. Now, its been out on Distrokid and all the usual channels since then, but I never got around to make a proper video about it. Ideally I envisioned a big production using actual school kids and people, and more fancy graphics etc. But then stuff happened, things got delayed and everything else that happened since then.. until now. So here it is, for better or for worse.
And yeah, help us stop bullying! ;)
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Written and composed by Alex Paulee Bow
Vocals, guitars and some synth parts: Alex Paulee Bow
Arranged, mixed and mastered by Anders Enger Jensen
Cover art: Reno
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Lyrics:
It’s 5 past 9 in the holding pen
The local class bully making rounds again
[You’re fat, you’re ugly, spotty, you are such a geek, you’re thin, you’re speccy, coward what’s the matter, freak?]
He patters down the line of the soul defenceless.
Dishing out the shame on a cold life sentence,
Some of them may carry it for years and years,
Some of them may end up in a tarn of tears
And the bully has probably, bullies of his own... his vengeance is keen, as his parents demean him at home...
Shame... nobody ever seems to own it they just pass it on down the line...
Shame... you could be anything you wanted, till the hatred internalised
Shame... and then they put you on a drug for what you brain cannot synthesize
Shame... makes you feel unsafe in another’s eyes
Shame... makes you feel unable to go outside
Shame... shame is only lies!
People laughed at me for the longest time
I thought it was my fault for the longest time
I couldn’t shake it off for the longest time
I couldn’t shake it off for the longest time
All the time I’ve lost, it’s such a shame.
Cast off the shackles of shame, baby!
Cast off the shackles of shame.
Shame... nobody ever seems to own it they just pass it on down the line...
Shame... you could be anything you wanted!
Shame... and then they put you on a drug for what you brain cannot synthesize
Shame... makes you feel unsafe in another’s eyes
Shame... makes you feel unable to go outside
Shame... shame is only lies!")
![KORG Wavestation A/D Demo [From Alex Balls KORG Documentary]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NecWTNX2j74/hqdefault.jpg "KORG Wavestation A/D Demo [From Alex Balls KORG Documentary]
So Alex Ball asked me last year ago if I would want to help him demonstrate some KORG gear for his new documentary. Of course I could do that, so here is me demonstrating the Wavestation A/D from 1991.
Watch his great documentary here: https://youtu.be/v7hqDRmx3yI
Espen Kraft has of course done a number on this already, but I wanted to do something more appropriate of the time it was released so, hopefully it has a little more of that 90s vibe going on. For us Norwegians, the Pharoahs Jig wave loop is fairly recognisable , because it was used on Ole Edvard Antonsens Tour de Force album from the same period and his version of Honky Tonk Women (go check it out and youl see what I mean).
This module has so many vast possibilities so covering all of it in about a minutes time, is impossible, yet I hope it shows a little of what it can do. If you cant get the real deal, KORG does have the Legacy Collection at a fair price which will give you what you need to get started.
#KORG #Wavestation #WavestationAD #Retro #Sampler #Synthesizer #AlexBall #80s #documentary
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