Reply to Nick Bike - Bugged [all vocoder/talkbox mix]

""That's bugged," says Bam, who often speaks in terms of sound effects, as if waiting for the right word to show up. It may be a while, so "bugged" will do. Though much of Bam's memory belongs to a record collection that defies mini-storage, you can always count on "bugged," a hip-hop jargonist that has survived for over two decades, its etymology based on the act of going out of one's head through one's eyes while attended by invisible (and apparently very busy) insects under one's skin. When eyes "bug out" from their sockets, doctors call it globe lunation. Despite its provenance in pre-Industrial sanitariums, bugging out frequented military argot during the Korean War, referring to US soldiers in a state of bullet-hastened egress. (Retreat was less a matter of going crazy than coming to one's senses.) Yet losing one's mind never goes out of style, and hip-hop, ever reinventing the tongue, would replace "mad" with "bugged," converting the former into a quantitative adverb, as if rightfully assuming everyone is insane."

Above is a quote from Dave Tompkins "How To Wreck a Nice Beach" - which was a staple in learning and researching more about the in depth and intriguing history of the vocoder. It is an incredibly fascinating piece of gear , so often leaving behind a trail of space-age mystery. What is presented here is NOT a 'best-of' collection by any means. A person could make 100 mixes of great vocoder/talkbox tunes and still have more to spare (check this user-created list on Discogs - http://www.discogs.com/lists/Vocatio...t/28521?page=1). That being said, there certainly are some timeless classics on here.

Art - Warren Keefe (http://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenkeefe)

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