Name: I Won't Tell You What To Do -2007 version(vocal)
Duration: 4 min 37 s
Channel: Lawrence Wise
Description: "I Won't Tell You What To Do -2007 version(vocal)" is a song by Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS. As promised only ONE DAY AGO (July 5, 2007!), here's the updated, newly recorded vocal version.

As promised only ONE DAY AGO (July 5, 2007!), here's the updated, newly recorded vocal version.

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Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra OSMOS

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

Electronic • Dance

Charts

#2,580 in subgenre Peak #37

Charts

Peak #302

Author

Lawrence Wise

Rights

2007

Uploaded

July 06, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.2 MB • 128 kbps • 4:37

Story behind the song

The original "I Won't Tell You What To Do" was done in July of 1984.  The re-done vocals to that was done in April of 1985 (THAT'S the 'classic' version that is posted here).  Now, for this NEW version, which was only done on July 5th, 2007 (exactly 23 Years After The FIRST Version!!!), I used the very same Casio MT-200 (that's right kiddies--it IS a 'large-model' Casio, not a MOOG!!)---

only this time, instead of doing it on Cassette, this one is 100% 'into-the-computer'/All-Digital (with the Audacity program supplying some meanass filtering).

The instrumental (FINALLY in Stereo, and with multiple tracks, instead of just that ONE Take!) even sounds more 'robotic' and psychedelic.  

Now vocally, the lyrics and arrangements are the same (with a small update in verse two), as well as the two 'voices' (high and low).  There MIGHT be a teensy little 'timing' issue (I'm STILL learning how to get around that), but all in all, it's different from that first version.

And, it's also slated for the Cosmic Funk Orchestra album-project for 2007 (not OSMOSIS).  So, here goes and N-Joy The (Techno)Funk!!

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