The 'Metal Machine Music' of relaxation sounds records
September 19, 2010 5:48 PM Subscribe
I was thinking of posting this. It truly cracked me up.
posted by fourcheesemac at 6:33 PM on September 19, 2010
posted by fourcheesemac at 6:33 PM on September 19, 2010
Empath, can you remix this into some funky deep house for me?
posted by msali at 7:37 PM on September 19, 2010
posted by msali at 7:37 PM on September 19, 2010
I wasn't sure at first if this was a parody.
posted by Rory Marinich at 7:52 PM on September 19, 2010
posted by Rory Marinich at 7:52 PM on September 19, 2010
I actually sat next to one of Magic Moods' roadies on a plane once. He had some amazing stories but his back was totally destroyed. You know it is not easy to lug a full rainforest around from stadium to stadium. They had to get trucks specially converted.
Anyway what happened with Ocean Moods was that everyone was getting burned out and needed a break. Some of them had heavily diluted monkeys to kick — ironically the cure was the proverbial "hair of the dog" in an even more dilute solution, talk about your downward spirals. So they rented this big old mansion in the French countryside and the nature sounds zines were just going crazy trying to figure out what it was. I mean like, running their fingers through their thinning hair, sighing like "Phew!", you would not believe how worked up these guys got relatively speaking. Some of the groupies found their way out there and man there were some marathon cuddling sessions is what I hear.
So this one dude, I'm not going to name him but I think if you are familiar with the scene you will know who it is, just could not shake some of his bad habits, and he would be up at these ungodly hours, whacked out on positive energy, just recording up a storm. I mean, literally a storm. That's where the label got Thunder Echoes to release after the group broke up.
One morning, the other band members came down to record some bird calls they'd worked up jamming with Messiaen, and they found this amazing tape in the console. All on one track, all down in one take, basically perfect. It was Ocean Surf, almost exactly in final release form. I think they had to overdub some palm trees rustling or something.
And so they were all like, shit, man, this is it! This is the new album! But they could not find the dude who recorded it. They looked all over the house and they couldn't find him. Finally they found him outside in the swimming pool. But then they were like, wait, was there a swimming pool here? Turns out that the Indian Ocean had turned up to help out with the recording. They couldn't use its name in the credits due to label conflicts, but if you look at the CD jacket, it's right there: "I. O. Sean, maracas."
posted by No-sword at 7:53 PM on September 19, 2010 [21 favorites]
Anyway what happened with Ocean Moods was that everyone was getting burned out and needed a break. Some of them had heavily diluted monkeys to kick — ironically the cure was the proverbial "hair of the dog" in an even more dilute solution, talk about your downward spirals. So they rented this big old mansion in the French countryside and the nature sounds zines were just going crazy trying to figure out what it was. I mean like, running their fingers through their thinning hair, sighing like "Phew!", you would not believe how worked up these guys got relatively speaking. Some of the groupies found their way out there and man there were some marathon cuddling sessions is what I hear.
So this one dude, I'm not going to name him but I think if you are familiar with the scene you will know who it is, just could not shake some of his bad habits, and he would be up at these ungodly hours, whacked out on positive energy, just recording up a storm. I mean, literally a storm. That's where the label got Thunder Echoes to release after the group broke up.
One morning, the other band members came down to record some bird calls they'd worked up jamming with Messiaen, and they found this amazing tape in the console. All on one track, all down in one take, basically perfect. It was Ocean Surf, almost exactly in final release form. I think they had to overdub some palm trees rustling or something.
And so they were all like, shit, man, this is it! This is the new album! But they could not find the dude who recorded it. They looked all over the house and they couldn't find him. Finally they found him outside in the swimming pool. But then they were like, wait, was there a swimming pool here? Turns out that the Indian Ocean had turned up to help out with the recording. They couldn't use its name in the credits due to label conflicts, but if you look at the CD jacket, it's right there: "I. O. Sean, maracas."
posted by No-sword at 7:53 PM on September 19, 2010 [21 favorites]
Yeah, right—they sound more like me and Steve screwing around in the garage with our flute and harp back in high school.
posted by griphus at 9:01 PM on September 19, 2010
posted by griphus at 9:01 PM on September 19, 2010
By the late '70s, the Environments series had reached the low double-digits and Syntonic Research Inc. was stretching the concept to the breaking point.
Rykodisc experienced similar issues.
posted by Lazlo at 9:40 PM on September 19, 2010
Rykodisc experienced similar issues.
posted by Lazlo at 9:40 PM on September 19, 2010
Very doubtful that it's a recording of Mavericks, as that break wasn't brought to public attention until 1999.
posted by sicjoy at 11:06 PM on September 19, 2010
posted by sicjoy at 11:06 PM on September 19, 2010
No-sword, your comment is funnier than the actual piece.
The author had a funny concept, ran with it and it was good for a while. But it goes on too long and gets pretty labored. I wonder if there was some sort of length requirement.
posted by Mayor Curley at 4:37 AM on September 20, 2010
The author had a funny concept, ran with it and it was good for a while. But it goes on too long and gets pretty labored. I wonder if there was some sort of length requirement.
posted by Mayor Curley at 4:37 AM on September 20, 2010
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