Ember-assed (w/drakonis/custard)

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My first take on drakonis' "Ember". To my knowledge, a hip-hop version hasn't been tried ... and certainly
not one feat. the rapping talents of Eduard's own chicken "custard".

I started going from 69 BPM to 205, added the drums (2 tracks: one effected), re-voiced the instruments, re-mixed, re-effected, adjusted some panning, added that extra synth bit, and some reversed parts for extra FX, removed previous GB mastering and used Ozone 3 for that instead... the midi really has some fantastic
detail (of course) which I did try to exploit in my instrument choices .. the bed has a blend of old and new .. then on Eduard's request it got (even) sillier... and custard was plucked out of retirement.

Original Custard recording used. .. had a job filtering out the very large
embers of the recent fires in the background, so Custard might not be totally happy with the BBQing .. er .. I mean EQing of her contribution... but what the heck- a' sa', a' said, it's a chicken folks!!! lol.

Thanks Eduard for letting me play around with this.. it was lots of fun :o)

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Lyrics

Bawk,
Squawk.

Translations courtesy of Foghorn Leghorn

Song Stats

Hits: 2744
Comments: 51
Fans: 33
Plays: 338
Downloads: 92
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Uploaded: Nov 11, 2007 - 03:14:04 AM
Last Updated: Nov 13, 2007 - 04:20:57 PM Last Played: Nov 03, 2009 - 02:26:25 PM

Song License

Creative Commons License:
Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Song Actions

Keywords:

hip-hop (76), bling (6), chicken (10), pecker (1), custard (2), drakonis (67), ember (32), fun (194), joking (1), not choking (1)

Hardware:

Intel Mac Mini 1.66Ghz, 2GB RAM,
MOTU Traveler Firewire audio interface.

Software:

GB v3,
Audacity,
Ozone 3.
Linplug Alpha 3,
Boldt choir,
Drums on demand.

Comments

	said 729 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Chicken groove This is funny. What an incredible yet edible transformation.

DWL	DWL said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Sqawkingly good Loved it, quirky, well produced. Great piece of work. Cheers Dick Check out my latest song called Superstar Shangri-La

	said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Unsuspected I knew it was a new Ember going on BUT I could never believe it was you.lol This is a fascinating mix of the old and the new. BRAVO. But one thing my friend I think Ember is for all... Why can't I d-load it;( it's fun to have them all ;)..heheheh Peace, Love & Respect --- Kenta

caroline	caroline said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	LMAO only in drakonis' household would they give the chickens an opportunity to be stars!! now i wanna see the lizards dance!!! brilliantly produced by anal ... ooops, i mean alan as always!! a great giggle - thank you men and chicken xoxoxox Check out my latest song called clink that link mjrf

	said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Very Clever! Nice one, Alan! Who knew chickens like to rap, hehe! Nice job on the mix, too.

steck	steck said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Custard This is Clucking Funny.... Steck Check out my latest song called Fire In The Sky

gail60	gail60 said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	OH MY!!! Who woulda thunk it? talk about your Chicken dance deluxe! This is just too funny. Great job guys and chicks. Chickens on Crack. What a concept. Check out my latest song called Sweet September

	said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	LOL! This chicken needs his own profile. I want to collab with him. Too funny Alan. You just made my day. Thanks bro.

Diviner	Diviner said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Brilliant Well mixed and sounded sooo good. Its such a funny track and a very witty title. Nice one apb, I love tracks that put a smile on my face, and this certainly did. Cheers for sharing. :-) Check out my latest song called Space Program (Space Race 2009)

falo	falo said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	this is frakkin funny as hell....I don't know what else to say....you blew my mind.....now THAT'S a funky chicken....a very fun listen and the dancing chicken graphic made it all the more fun.....good stuff.....good times.... peace....falo www.falo6.com Check out my latest song called Stones Throw Away

peacepiano	peacepiano said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Chicken Glad I came back for the chicken LOL Very different and imaginative approach. Thanks Bill Check out my latest song called I Should Have Known

Feter	Feter said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Ember-assed this is fun ....so you sampled the chick sound ? Check out my latest song called A Night With Feter feat'(Roxylee sloparts crissew johnwhitehead and Yamin AL Yamani )

apb	apb said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Thanks Feter .. I cut it from a cleaned up version of the source file (linked in the lid description for reference). Then made my own loops/samples from that. Custard was 'singing' some pretty groovy patterns to start with - so all credit where it is due. :o) Check out my latest song called Misplaced

Roxylee	Roxylee said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Hey, great singing chicken! At first, i thought this was funny, but then i started groovin' right along. Way cool, Alan! :-) Check out my latest song called Sweet Grace

apb	apb said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	Thanks Roxanne .. I'm glad you picked up on that borderline quality ..the edge of insanity ...and sheer stupidity .. funny, silly: sure - but not that bad really... considering it's Custard's first collab..go easy on her..lol. The question is perhaps: Is it possible to make it sound like a chicken is rapping? Check out my latest song called Misplaced

davisamerica	davisamerica said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)
	lol alan...lol..... Check out my latest song called No Son(egobandit band)

apb	apb said 727 days ago (November 12th, 2007)
	:o) .. what? lol... Check out my latest song called Misplaced

drakonis

drakonis said 728 days ago (November 11th, 2007)

We be Bagawkin'!
Who says Chickens don't got rhythm?

Alan, you really outdid yourself here... absolutely impeckable sense of comedic timing, this wings you a feather in your cap, you were able to pullet off brilliantly. My wife (owner of the now-rock-star chicken "Custard") thinks it is exquisitely funny, and now has it on her iPod and has played it from time to time all weekend while we were on vacation.

I think you did a super job of choosing a humorously fast tempo, hip-hoppish instrumentation, I love the loud musical interjection in the middle with the chicken-disturbance, and your choice of "chicken nuggets", looped and inserted here and there makes this a giggly joy to listen to... puts a smirk on my face EVERY time I listen to it (now coming up on about 50 listens over 2 days now :-) Thank you for such a funny treat, you've made a whole house-full of chicks (and a rooster/dragon) really happy!

And although the animated chicken artwork is silly, I actually liked your own artwork creation better.

ttfn,
Drakonis

Check out my latest song called Temporal Tantrum (Sister Savage Mix)

apb

apb said 727 days ago (November 12th, 2007)

Thanks all for the comments!
rschletty & Dick - thanks, glad you savoured it.
Skean - full of surprises, download enabled, sorry, mistake.
Caroline - xoxoxoxxo
mikey d - but what came first? The egg or the chicken??
steck - lol, it's gallus gallus ;o)
gail60 - .. I knew I had forgotten something ..lol.
Pickquick - need to speak to the hen honcho 'bout that ..
Diviner - it's good to spread some humour from time 2 time.. without making an omelette.
falo - thanks for stopping in and letting me mess with your head.
peacepiano - glad you did too.
drakonis - thanks to you all! It was eggcellent you gave me free range with this one .. and I didn't cockerel it up. Artwork back to the original on
your request, less scary for the alektorphobics...

Check out my latest song called Misplaced

bud	bud said 727 days ago (November 12th, 2007)
	Just when you think you've heard it all along comes APB and a rapping chicken - care of Dakonis's ubiquitous Ember Rekindled. Well I'll be skewered and 'cued - this is a tasty little treat. Check out my latest song called Expanding Toys (Halloween Remix)

SecaMode	SecaMode said 726 days ago (November 13th, 2007)
	awesome hey alan, this is so cool! i love the drums and that squawking is hilarious but it really works. this is a really fun way to be experimental. hats off to you, you've done something really serious without taking it too seriously. loved it!!! Check out my latest song called Deux Cents

michael2	michael2 said 726 days ago (November 13th, 2007)
	i never would have seen this direction. makes my version feel so traditional. love this. Check out my latest song called Stars and Dust (space challenge)

musichead	musichead said 726 days ago (November 13th, 2007)
	filthy Alan, If you knew what filthy meant in American terms, you would be happy. Its what the kids say when they really like something. I didnt know if I should laugh or listen and laugh or just listen and then laugh. But still it had a touch of class?? Check out my latest song called Lets Take a Holiday

guitapick	guitapick said 726 days ago (November 13th, 2007)
	Lots of depth, here... ...love the way you weave the music around the rhythm of the clucks...or is that vice versa? ;) ...great interpretation, apb...I'm hungry, now... Check out my latest song called Outside the Corral

benchod abu	benchod abu said 725 days ago (November 14th, 2007)
	eggcelent! this is gas man! instant download, played it thrice and i'm still a'chuklin' Check out my latest song called melisssa

Lizard*Whistle	Lizard*Whistle said 725 days ago (November 14th, 2007)
	Clucking hell Inspired!!! Check out my latest song called Black madonna

Scott Carmichael	Scott Carmichael said 725 days ago (November 14th, 2007)
	It's like Poultry in motion Check out my latest song called Good Morning

	said 725 days ago (November 14th, 2007)
	Allright! gives new meaning to choke the chicken! excellent!!!

damiengh	damiengh said 724 days ago (November 15th, 2007)
	Yuck and Cluck Got my Chicken feet out for this one. Scratchin and a struttin to the great beats you got going here. Oh yeah. Check out my latest song called Tea and Scones

thoddi	thoddi said 724 days ago (November 15th, 2007)
	groovy chicken I dig that sound of the chicken. Well crafted tune. Cool groove. Check out my latest song called Don't tell me what I can't w/KTB and Ingve

Alannah	Alannah said 724 days ago (November 15th, 2007)
	Interesting Ember .... .. tastes like chicken. Check out my latest song called I'm Drownin' - Smokey VW (feat Alannah) + Outtaorbit

perceptualvortex	perceptualvortex said 723 days ago (November 16th, 2007)
	Hahaha The world can't have too many rapping chickens. Very nice! Check out my latest song called Machine Man (w Beastie Boys)

apb

apb said 723 days ago (November 16th, 2007)

Thanks ever so much ..

Bud - thanks, with so many excellent versions .. it was about time for a bad one ... no wait ... summat wrong *doh*
Secamode - cheers, glad you picked up that quality in the mix.
Michael2 - oo almost got me .. I'm trying now not to listen to too many other versions before I do another (just in case). Will listen after though, nothing wrong with traditional- I didn't have this version really in
mind when I started .. it just happened.
musichead - :o) neither is never unacceptable. Class??
guitapick - ty- what came first the bed or the chicken? Well, the bed in this case: custard was steered a little around the bed.
benchod abu - thanks! welcome to MJs!!
Lizard*Whistle - :o) thanks for stopping in
Scott Carmichael - lol darn you! Wish I'd remembered that one ;o) "Chicken Tikka you and I know.."
egobandit - :o) no chickens were choked during the production of this song.
damiengh - thanks, I'm off to cry in me guinness now ..
thoddi - I agree, custard was a pleasure to work with and works for chicken feed too.
Alannah - isn't that snakes?
perceptualvortex - :o) it may be a world first! .. and quite probably last!! lol. I may just have ensured Custard's life.. 'Quiche' better shape up on the talent front ..I'm just sayin' ..

Check out my latest song called Misplaced

jiguma	jiguma said 723 days ago (November 16th, 2007)
	:) :) To get to the other side? :) Check out my latest song called Under My Skin

Epileptic Gibbon	Epileptic Gibbon said 721 days ago (November 18th, 2007)
	Is that Jacque Custard? Finger lickin good! Check out my latest song called Fiddler Off the Roof w/Komrade K & Caroline

	said 699 days ago (December 10th, 2007)
	as always your music cannot be placed onto a shelf of this genre or that. you are always bending the boundaries, and rubbing out the hard edges, to go your own way. brilliant. allen

SlimGirlFat	SlimGirlFat said 698 days ago (December 11th, 2007)
	Squawk Harmonies LOL I LOVE this! Check out my latest song called Not Enough

Estella	Estella said 697 days ago (December 12th, 2007)
	LOL!!!!!! Every time that chicken starts rapping, ooh. I have no idea where "Ember" or "Custard" came from, but oh I'm so glad, so glad. I will have to look this stuff up. The title is brilliant. You are so good at that. Check out my latest song called Este Momento

dajama	dajama said 689 days ago (December 20th, 2007)
	Excellent Great sound and a very interesting vocal! Unique, for sure. Nice one. Peace. Check out my latest song called Across the Wire (MJRF)

VicDiesel	VicDiesel said 685 days ago (December 24th, 2007)
	A chicken? Oh, I thought you were scratching, as in with vinyl. Cool piece. Check out my latest song called Pipe Spring at Dusk

Heightened	Heightened said 682 days ago (December 27th, 2007)
	I love that chicken sound - mmmmmm - chicken. Check out my latest song called A Journey Through Starburst Galaxy M82

	said 609 days ago (March 9th, 2008)
	Cluck cluck. Hi What a great callab well done- bringing happiness and laughter to the Macjammers too. Hillarious! Heeee heee so funny and brilliantly mixed- all I have to say is cluck cluck and rock on Now we need the ducks, I think they are really Quackers lol Seriousely had no end of fun listening to this. Ha ha thanks. Peace Dee

Tanyaama	Tanyaama said 594 days ago (March 24th, 2008)
	Ha ha... This sounds pretty cool I must say. 'Can you guess: Whats that sound?' Check out my latest song called Colour Me In (Full Song)

screamalexz	screamalexz said 583 days ago (April 4th, 2008)
	hehe hahaha drak sent this to me. this is the best rap i've heard and it's worth listening to! you guys need to take this chicken and head out onto the road! seriously though this is cool. perhaps experiment with different animals or sounds and make them rap and prove that not all rap is crap. Check out my latest song called Die (Album Version)

magnatone	magnatone said 583 days ago (April 4th, 2008)
	Ember-Assed this is amazing! As I was just telling Drak, who linked me to this wonder, I'm downloading it to add to the ipod motorcycle trip playlist (a big honor!) Thanks Check out my latest song called Symphonic Smackdown

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 521 days ago (June 5th, 2008)
	"Night Bird" you got me thinking "Deep Forest" man! this is great! thanks Check out my latest song called Settle

PrototypeEightyOne	PrototypeEightyOne said 398 days ago (October 6th, 2008)
	yO i love what you did with this, this should be in a japanese RPG LOL... i actaully laughed out loud when i realised what the sample was! Check out my latest song called Planet of Prototypes (mj space race 2009)

Char

Char said 398 days ago (October 6th, 2008)

My man is good.
He throws out our food.
Who knows which one has the bigger pecker?
But me and my coup mates say "What the Hecker."
We're not feather-brained but more than willin',
To sing for our supper and that's so chillin'
Eduard RAWKS
We're not dumb clucks!
We sing for free
With dignity
Foul, we're not;
Just hot to trot.
From Harrop's Translating Poultrish :)

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musichead	musichead said 396 days ago (October 8th, 2008)
	ichat How come I cant get you on ichat anymore.. Its like I never see you anymore. I like the song too...:P Too funny... Check out my latest song called Lets Take a Holiday

jie	jie said 396 days ago (October 8th, 2008)
	awright chuck what the pluck. music for chickens what a brilliant idea that nobody has thought of all those captive bodies with nothing else to spend there money on. genius though the whole thing is fowl. boom boom. keep takin the tablets mate take care Check out my latest song called Gods Got HisPlans, Ive got mine

Day-Dreamer	Day-Dreamer said 233 days ago (March 20th, 2009)
	Do the funky chicken.. Ember dance. Really enjoyed my listen :) Made me smile:) Check out my latest song called IT'S OVER (V2)

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