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Mike Zee

Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 05:36 am:

new CD-Album release from Mike Zee and ZEE DUB LAB.
For all tracks LoFi-streaming preview: go here
To Order CD: go here
To view full size graphics, tracks listing: go here
Few Featured tracks:
RIDDIM ME THE REASON
MY PEOPLE ARE TIRED
THE SON OF THE GOD WILL RETURN
ROOTSMAN COMING
JAH GAVE ME SPACE

respects,
/Mike Zee (aka Dr.Zee)
ZEE DUB LAB

Mike Zee

Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 12:40 am:

also WICKED ROOTS shirts and other stuff here

/mz

interruptor

Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 12:17 pm:

hi mike
just listened to "WICKED ROOTS DUB" (lo-fi). I like the bassplaying and sound a lot. The drums and synth sounds on the other hand seem a bit "out of the box" for my personal taste (almost too clean).
But where did you get these vocals from?? sounds like sampled and sent through a pitch modulation effect for some sort of "middle east sea sick type of sound".. far out!

peace
Daniel

Mike Zee

Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 05:51 pm:

Daniel,

thanks a bunch for listening and comments.
Out-of-Box? heh heh - indeed, man ...lol

, heh heh But not the "SHAKER" !!!!! hah hah, the shaker is actually a real thing - it's a two-bucks plastic egg-shaker, I have two of them in the studio ...rofl.
True, I have often lately used some pretty much 'uncool' sounds here and there in newer productions. I have a reason for it, but really if I start to explain it why, it would make much sense, because common sense would lead producer to looking for some "new" and "cool" or so-called "up-to-date" sounds, which I feel like, - I've got over it. Here's simple explanation: imagin, if you are trying to create(or say, imitate) the sound of some reggae-performing 'small-town'-band, then you can imagin, that this little band may not have any "cool sounds in the pocked", so what will this band sounds like? Maybe something, like simple bass, drums and some "cheap synth", e-pianos and alike. See what I mean?
******
About vocals.
Everything on this album - 100% Dr. ZEE, heh heh, - means me

Every track on this album have some voicing, some speaking, some barding and some actually may I say 'singing' - I am a lousy singer, so man, I would not really call it singing... I call it voicing

Well, couple of songs on this album are actually written songs with mini-poetry-lyrics ("In The Middle Of Nowhere", "Jah Gave Me Space", "Tonight The Sun Will Shadow It's Eyes" (this song is actually a hybrid of pop-song and trip-hop with reggae-based base-line)).
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Vocals on "Wicked Roots Dub".
Yeah, these vocals are 'wicked', I guess, and what you hear in the track is the result of pretty 'wicked' technical chain. Shorty: First I was really randomly "singing" various "oyyee-haaaa, ahhhhaa, ohhhoo(s)" etc.... I was singing it through Digitech Studio-Quad processor (some combination of digital phaser/slicht pitch-shift/delay). But I was recording to analog Cassette tape (Dennon-770R). Dennon-770R has 12%-pitch control, so then I've played it back while playing back drum/basse-line sequence, so I could adjust the pitch(speed of the tape) to the point when voice is sort-of tuned to the bass-line.
Next, I've recorded some fragments from the tape to the computer (to the Cakewalk ProAudio sequence), also while recording I was turning tape's pith knob up/down here and there (you can hear some of this actually at the begining and at the end of the track, where it feels like voices accelerate and at the end - slow-down).
Then I did allots of digital cut, create clips, move takes around on screen etc... so the random recordings would line up as it is a sort of "singing to the riddim". This kind of manipulation only can be done in midi-sequence/audio Computer application.
Well, at the end, I plyed all this combo back - all the sounds going through groups on analog mixing desk, so I also could apply some final eq-ing etc, also was sending vocals and some other portions of the mix through delays here and there in real time while mixing down.

btw, You can listen to HiFi or download the track, here is the direct link:
WICKED ROOTS DUB Play HiFi LoFi Download,
these vocals sounds to me like some sort of fusion of american indians and some mid-east type of stuff - or really hard to say...

/respects,
/Mike Zee

Mike Zee

Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 06:01 pm:

if there's no download option (only streaming option) for the track, try sometime later, it's because of I just set the track's properties, and it may take some time to get updated on the page.

/Mike Zee

Mike Zee

Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 09:12 pm:

hah hah, here, i've found the very shaker I've used: EGGZ, it's $1.5 actually

/mz

interruptor

Posted on Monday, March 17, 2003 - 05:14 pm:

it's great to do stuff like that sometimes.. i did the vocal bits on "inner city dub" in a very similar way: started with a vocal line of a solo singer from the middle east, reversed it, cut it in syllables and rearranged those bits which suited the chords of my tune into a new vocal line.

got to have one of these shaker-eggs too.. love to play 'em but never had one.

peace
daniel

Mike Zee

Posted on Monday, March 17, 2003 - 06:09 pm:

Daniel, yeah. This "way of production" is a fan, and a sort of technical 'journey'. You, know, I have somewhat split feeling about it, however. Well, hard to explain what I mean. It's about the final result. You get something interesting at the end, and you (as producer) sort of wish to forget about the actual process, and instead to believe, that it is as original, while you know it's not, but the result of technical tricks.

The EGGZ!

, yeah, man, get couple of em'. They look like a joke, if you think to take them on stage - heh heh, but really, in the studio, they are perfect. With eq and close mic you can get the whole variety of shaker rhythms/sounds, and you know, by nature of shaker, you can sample it and sequence the way you can with drums. When you shake it to the 'tempo' the whole sound is effected. It's must have gear ...

, lol

/respects,
/Mike Zee

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