The main 'cassette-single' from my 1983 cassette-album, 'Electric Man'.
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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
Charts
#526 in subgenre Peak #6
Charts
Peak #481
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1983
Uploaded
December 15, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.8 MB 128 kbps 5:15
Story behind the song
Recorded in July 1983, "FINE LINE" is the very first track from the "Electric Man". It's a little bit preachy and simplistic (I wasn't even 20 yet), and like most Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra tracks at that time, very dreamy and experimental. Especially the second half of the track. You'll also notice (besides the basic 'tape-hiss') a few vehicles rolling in the background. That's because (just like the bulk of my earliest stuff) the basic track of "FINE LINE" (Bass, Drums, First Keyboards and Lead Vocals) was recorded LIVE into the tape mic. (Only the Harmonic/Solo Synth part was dubbed into the stereo deck over the rest.) So, 25 years after the fact, here is the Internet Premier of a Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra "original". (The rest to be uploaded soon.)
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