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Tell Me What You Wanna Do (It's Gettin' Bigger)
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I guarantee the you WILL hear a MOOG Synthesizer in the retro-techno-funk jam.
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
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Genre
R&B Funk
Author
Lawence Wise
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(c)1992
Uploaded
March 03, 2007
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MP3 4.3 MB 128 kbps 4:38
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It was the ONLY time I actually used a (used!!) Moog Synthesizer on a song. "Tell Me What You Wanna Do" was intended to be a Single--and, yes, an OSMOSIS song at that!!--but, I used it to open up Side-B of the original Cassette-Album. Strangely enough, it stood on it's own, and STILL DOES. Maybe it's the Moog; maybe the cheap-n-cheesy Yamaha guitar-synth; maybe the groove itself; then again, maybe it's the easy lyrics and Funkadelic-styled vocals. Then again, it could just be the "Hook": "Whoa-Ho-Hai, Whoa-Oh-Ho-Hai, Whoa-Oh-Hai, Whoa-Oh-Ho-Hai-Hai!!" Now, THAT'S the Funkadelic-Tribute (see Funkadelic's "Music For My Mother" for the inspiration to that hook)!
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