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Zeyla
03-14-2007, 01:14 PM
I was digging through my old docs and misc stuff and found this...

Enjoy

<header> </header> <center> How To Write Techno Songs ?

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LYRICS:
Simply take one word or phrase from each of the three columns below, in order to make one line. Repeat randomly four times. Repeat process again twice to make chorus. Repeat last line 17 times. Don't worry if they don't make sense.

Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
-------- -------- --------
Move it Triple Beat The City Streets
Get Up Body Heat You'll be Humpin
Pump It Up Feel the Beat Before the Night is Over
Get Down Get Around Shake your Meat
Shake it The Joint Is Jumpin Bustin Loose
Pump the Jam Feet are Stompin Disco Heat
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BACKBEAT:
Program a drum machine in neverending 4/4 time. Add occasional snare.
BODY:
Add monotonous bass in one key. Overlay with puncy sounding synth. Get previously unknown singer to talk the lyrics so as not to test the range of the vocal chords.
PRODUCTION:
Put above ingredients together on master tape. Press discs. Give the label a suitably techno-funk sounding name, like "Mixmastermeatbeaters". Sell 5 million copies to unsuspecting public. Win MTV Award. The sad thing is the public will *think* you've been creative...
Better still, this process can be automated via a lyric C program, a random synth base and music generator, and the discs mastered directly by computer control.
This relieves the composer of decisions regarding which phrases and notes to use in production. By pressing the <ret> key, more than 100 CD's a week can be generated.
This I have done, below is a sample composition guaranteed to make megabucks:
</ret>
"Get down" by Mixmastermeatbeaters


Get down the joint is jumpin' you'll be humpin'
Shake it feet are stompin' in the city streets
Pump the jam feel the beat with disco heat
Move it get around 'til the night is over

(chorus)
Get down to triple beat shake your meat
Pump it up get around in the city streets

Pump the jam to triple beat you'll be humpin'
Shake it get body heat 'til the night is over
Get up the joint is jumpin' you'll be humpin'
Pump it up feet are stompin' I'm bustin loose

(chorus)
Get down to triple beat shake your meat
Pump it up get around in the city streets

Pump it up get around in the city streets
Pump it up get around in the city streets
Pump it up get around in the city streets
etc..
</pre> Note that this is indistinguishable from the human generated version.

Varran
03-14-2007, 05:44 PM
will save my comments regarding differences between the electronic music types and americans need to call everything electronic "techno" and say...

funny stuff

Syana
03-14-2007, 07:31 PM
will save my comments regarding differences between the electronic music types and americans need to call everything electronic "techno" and say...

funny stuff

no way! What's the fun in that?

BobDole901
03-14-2007, 09:27 PM
As demonstrated here:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html

Kirynos
03-16-2007, 01:46 PM
Oh god CP, hilarious. I hadn't watched that one in a while.

:confuse:

Arawn
03-16-2007, 05:25 PM
As demonstrated here:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html

LOL

Zeyla
03-19-2007, 02:42 PM
will save my comments regarding differences between the electronic music types and americans need to call everything electronic "techno" and say...

funny stuff

Oh I know, there are ton of diff electronic types of music now. That guide was about 14+ years old, there weren't 25 official genres and sub-genres of "electronica" that we have now. I just thought it was funny :D

VonPenn
03-19-2007, 03:07 PM
americans need to call everything electronic "techno" and say...


My friends do this...