re: #45 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

He’s a one-man Swingle Singers, or Manhattan Transfer, or New York Voices. Some of the voicing is done electronically, I suspect, but to do it in real time several times in perfect time with the other voices is quite a feat.

Whenever I see a multi-part video like that, I always end up wondering where the starting point was. I’ve done a fair amount of multi-tracking over the years, an I always started at the most fundamental part and built out.

But the rhythm of the backing vocals is so off-kilter (he’s dancing around the ‘one’ for most of the verses), it’s hard for me to get a handle on exactly which part he started with.

But where I’m working with a theory engine of a VW Bug, he’s got a rocket ship. I can’t even comprehend some of the stuff he’s doing, and he’s got a handle on six parts and keyboards. I’ll say it again, it’s insane.