Greetings fellow cellar dwellers.

Yesterday was Recording Vocals Day for DTISHOM (btw Rosie has requested that all future song names be 1 or two words max)

The song is more or less finished, sounds pretty much as we play it live. Good-o, finished.

Not quite.

Whilst doing the main Vocals, Michael McG decided we needed something through the breakdown section and encouraged me to do some James Brown stuff.

That occasioned my very best James Brown catchphrase attempts, but it wasnt quite right. What we needed was a Hype Man. A what?

A Hype Man. Someone who adds vocalisations during your song, such as the legendary Flavor Flav

YEAH BOYYY!!!

So what sort of vocalisations do I mean? Whoops, Get On Ups, Get Down, Yah, yeah, woot, etcetera.

Very kindly, Michael volunteered to have a go. 

The funny thing was, that after thse vocalisations, I went back in to redo a phrase from the main Vocals that I wasn't happy with and wound up re-doing the main vocals completely - having the Hype in the background of the song made me smile a great deal and as a result, improved my singing tone and produced a better take. There ya go.

We won't get this one mixed for a week or so but it's a cracker.

Meanwhile, here's a song Michael turned me on to whilst we were talking about sampled vocalisations. 

Luke Million: Arnold [OFFICIAL VIDEO] from Alanedit on Vimeo.