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The INVASION Of The GO-GO ALIENS!!!
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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.
Song Info
Genre
Beats Pop
Charts
Peak #796
Peak in subgenre #65
Author
Ned Wise/Lawence Wise
Rights
(c)1983 C.F.M. Records & Starcase Rec. Co., Ltd.
Uploaded
March 03, 2007
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MP3 5.3 MB 128 kbps 5:47
Story behind the song
Yes, you READ that Copyright Date CORRECT: 1983. March 1983, to be exact!!!! "Future Rock (Martian Groove)" isn't even really MY 'Baby'--it's my brother Ned's idea. So was the little combo playing it: The C.F.M. ALL-STARS!!! Officially, the personel--well, the NUCLEUS of the group anyway--is Myself (on Bass Guitar, and Keyboard overdubs), and Ned (on Drums and Percussion). This is the SAME Setup on an 'OSMOSIS' track soon-to-be-uploaded. Rounding out the group, is my classmate from High School, Owen Ray Riley (on the COWBELL Ensemble!!). This WAS a Cassette-Single, which for some 7 1/2 years garnered a neighborhood reputation. Ned and I even attempted to perform this track LIVE during a backyard party in '83. (It was also the LAST TIME I played LIVE--thank god!! It was all bedroom-studio for ME after that. NED, on the other hand, renamed his group TOTAL GROOVE CONNECTION, and became city-wide legends throughout the mid-late '80s.) The only real contribution I have on this Semi-LIVE track (outside of the BASS and Keyboards) is the last part of the song: You can TELL that's ME!!! From Go-Go to Cosmic Funk. Now, as for it's placement on "Life Is Really Strange" after some 7 1/2 years of Hit Service: Let's just say that it replaced ANOTHER Kickass Instrumental--"Alladin's Groove"--very nicely. THAT SONG--a Cassette-Single in it's own right (from 1990!)--found it's way on the first NEW Cosmic Funk Orchestra Album of 2006, "SSFM*". THAT'S soon to be uploaded!! As for now, N-Joy THIS funk!
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