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brian d (brian_d)
1-Arriviste
Username: brian_d
Post Number: 2
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 4.165.45.221
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 8:40 pm: �� |     ���  |
Flash! The "Singing Machine" (Karaoke)(but c.d.'s playable on any regular c.d. player) just released (6) discs of MOTOWN master recordings, original artists, with isolated vocal tracks, and stereo band tracks, (without vocals!) The sound is the BEST that I have heard of any MOTOWN re-release to date. (10)more c.d's are in the works. This is the next best thing to being in the studio with the Master tapes, believe me! Check it out. You won't be disappointed. |
Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
4-Laureate
Username: juicefree20
Post Number: 147
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 24.46.184.162
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 9:17 pm: �� | ��� |
I see a vision.....lots of sampling & people singing over Motown tracks. Oh well, let me fire up the old Cubase. Maybe I can sound as good as the red headed guy on American Idol! Go Juice! Go Juice!!! Yay!!! Seriously, I love the idea of these CDs. The possibilities are endless.
Juice
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brian d (brian_d)
1-Arriviste
Username: brian_d
Post Number: 3
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 4.165.39.216
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 10:32 pm: �� | ��� |
Juice, I agree with you. However, with all the hoopla over the funk brothers being the un-sung heroes of the Motown sound, this is the first chance ever to hear the backing tracks, the funk brothers, up front, without the lead vocals. And, to also hear the vocals with or without the backing tracks! No record company has ever done this to my knowledge, let alone MOTOWN. The transfers are first rate - no harshness as in previous releases of the Motown catalogue. The stereo mixes are right on, and so is the eq. These are really clean. Probably loaded in to pro-tools, or some other restoration program.
If you want to check out the track listings, pull up Motown Masters Karaoke on google, and you will get the website for the "singing machine." These are superb for any motown/funk brothers fans who want to hear this type of presentation. Just because they are karaoke doesn't mean you have to try to sing over them yourself! |
Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
4-Laureate
Username: juicefree20
Post Number: 158
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 24.46.184.162
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 10:37 pm: �� | ��� |
It would be great, just as a studying aid. You can hear what was really going on. I think that this is a great thing. Imagine the remixing that you could do, using the vocal tracks with other arrangements & vice-versa. This sounds like a winner!!!
Juice
(Message edited by Juicefree20 on April 21, 2004) |
Wonder B (wonder_b)
4-Laureate
Username: wonder_b
Post Number: 99
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 81.50.37.98
| | Posted on Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 6:48 am: �� | ��� |
Yes Juice and Brian... these CD's were released over 6 months ago but they are already hard to get hold... I had to go to three ddifferent webstores to be able to get them all...
I posted about them on the old forum and here on the topic about what the children listen to because some of the trakcs on these are my baby girl's favourite songs...
It's truly great to hear the music the way it was played in the studio the day they were recorded and the way nobody has ever heard them...
The Funk brothers job on some of them is just awesome... I would recommend these series to all Motown fans and just overs of pure music...
By the way if you listen to the first tracks (with the vocals) the good thing to do (as opposed to what I said above) is to hear the singer's voice without the music by selecting the right channel only... then you realize how talented you have to be to sing some of these classics!!!
WI have already mailed them about the next batch of CD's (supposedly 10 more) but I never got an answer as to when they may come out...
I hope they will carry on with the idea because there are still quite a few I would love to discover under this new angle...
Wonder B
If you mess with the 'fro, you gotta go! |
Robbert (robbert)
1-Arriviste
Username: robbert
Post Number: 1
Registered: 5-2004
Posted From: 145.53.28.52
| | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 12:07 am: �� | ��� |
Hello evryone, I'm a newbie here, although I have been into music professionally since 1970. I'm writing to you from The Netherlands.
Started out as volunteer chairman of the Tamla-Motown Society of Holland in the late sixties. Worked professionally for EMI/Motown 1970-1976. My boss Pete Felleman and I released every Motown gem in Europe (ex UK) during that period, I also did PR and press promotion. Nuff said!
Dear BrianD,
You said: No record company has ever done this (backing tracks) to my knowledge, let alone MOTOWN.
As early as 1968 Capitol released an album with Beach Boys's original backing tracks, called "Stack-O-Tracks". That year I bought the original foldout album with lots of pictures and the COMPLETE scores to all the songs (one of my first LP's ever).
I wish Motown had begun to do that as early as Capitol did... |
Robb_K (robb_k)
4-Laureate
Username: robb_k
Post Number: 124
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.81.20.241
| | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 7:51 am: �� | ��� |
Hoi Robbert! Welkom in Soulful Detroit! Hee! Wat een moi naam heb jij!!! Ik ben ook een groot Motown fan. |
TD (tmd)
1-Arriviste
Username: tmd
Post Number: 5
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 69.170.6.130
| | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 12:35 pm: �� | ��� |
I bought a couple, but was anoyed with the back up vocals. I just wanted to hear more of the same music from the SITSOM sountrack i.e. You Keep Me Hanging On. Hopefully the pure Funk Brothers music will be realesed some day. I can't wait to hear Reach Out or I was Made to LOve Her- |
John Barry Sheffield (jaybs)
2-Debutant
Username: jaybs
Post Number: 18
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 195.92.168.165
| | Posted on Sunday, May 02, 2004 - 1:15 pm: �� | ��� |
TD
The 2 "CDSet" Standing in The Shaodows out in May will be more of what perhaps we are all waiting for and of course The Funk Bros Collection.
John |