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March Release: Life « CrownDigitalRecords

March Release: Life

Mr. Ozwald: Life - The Yearbook (March Release)

So I’m a little late posting this blog, but that’s OK :)

There were a few different directions I could have gone with this particular record but it really came to life (no punn intended) when I got the idea to use my computer’s voice to “sing” the hook.

I wrote out a few phrases in Microsoft Word about life and living the dream etc… and had a few different male and female voices generated by my computer “read” the text. I sampled the voices into my MPC, chopped em up and I knew I was on to something. By the time I had worked out the arragement of the computerized voices I knew the rest of the song would write itself…

I brought the beat into the studio before I wrote the song because I knew my engineer (Bruno Sutter) would really be able to have some fun while mixing this record, and I wanted to feed off of his energy. I told him I really wanted to bug this record out and try all sorts of crazy shit… try something new and different and just have fun with it.

Anyway, as for writing the song, I just wanted to talk about things relative to what is (and what has been) going on in the world, especially our country. Instead of going into detail and spelling everything out for you, I wanted to just use single words throughout to let your own images come to mind and create your own story within the one I’m telling. It’s all there… some of the shit you will or won’t understand or interpret correctly… kind of like things that happen in life.

Anyway, I’m doing a video for this joint, will be out in about a month or so…

Shout out to John Lilly for designing the cover.