vocal loops

[holden]

Hey all,

I've always been intrigued by Karl's statements that the voice is just another instrument, and is sometimes subservient to the beat, at least for dance music. Poetry has been descrived as the best words in the best order, and maybe in the case of Karl's lyrics, this also has to do with the best sounds in the right order, too.
But what i really dig is the looping of phrases in Underworld tracks, such that they act like a melodic hook and drop in and out like any other sound would.
I don't mean just repeating a word a few times (lager x 3), but rather a word or phrase that's looped to infinity. Examples:

Cowgirl: "everything everything"

Pearls Girl: "crazy crazy crazy"

Spoonman: "talks to God" and "into the blood"

Dub Shepherd: "walk with me" (a neat case, as the sound of the words has little competition with other songs)

This seems to be pretty unique for UW (afaict). What are the tracks i'm forgetting with a vocal loop?

[Jason Roth]

Spikee has vocal loops going on.

edit: Dark Train too (Ride the Train)

[mmm skyscraper]

Bruce Lee: bullet got the wrong bloke (especially in the Blue Mountain version)

[Icke]

KoS (live, especially the breakdown in the Everything, Everything version) comes to mind. There is quite a bit of variation though, not sure if it qualifies.



Can't really think of anything else ;) .


Amnesia, amnesia, amnesia, amnesia, amnesia

[TheBang]

I think these would qualify for what you're describing:

Why Why Why
Back in the Fears
Mowed Path

[Bargo]

Air Towel has the lyric "Should I want it" looping almost throughout.

(although I used to think the lyric was "fish without water" until I listend with headphones :p )

[the mongoose]

The thing I like is when the loops change somehow into something different in a subtle way ("crazy" slowly becoming "etacraaz-etacraaz-etacraaz" once the stuttering woman's voice is introduced and "talks to God" becoming mixed with the "flydiecry" variations.) Hard to explain what I'm talking about.;)

[Leon]

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How I love it!!!

[King of Snake]

i like the loop in the instrumental Born Slippy that goes uh-eee uh-eee-uh uh-eeeee-uh-eeee-uh ;) (at least it sound like a vocal snippet to me)

similarly Juanita also has a stuttery vocal thing looped as a percussion instrument which sounds great.

[bryantm3]

there was this one really obscure moby song called horses, and near the end there was a vocal loop that sounded like 'ee-sup' and then as the music changed around it, it would sound more like 'bishop' or 'basement' and then as the music became more chaotic it ended up sounding like 'muscle' and 'muffin'. but that's the only non-underworld example i can think of.

[Leon]

i like the loop in the instrumental Born Slippy that goes uh-eee uh-eee-uh uh-eeeee-uh-eeee-uh ;) (at least it sound like a vocal snippet to me)

similarly Juanita also has a stuttery vocal thing looped as a percussion instrument which sounds great.

Yeah I think the stuttery Juanita vocal can be heard very clearly in the live version of Everything Everything.

There's so much going on in Juanita :)

[bryantm3]

oh, yes, and laurie anderson's 'o superman'.

[Icke]

Oneida - Sheets of easter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVwjCE8WDZk)

Though that might not really be classified as a "vocal loop", but more like rhythmic chanting or something.

The youtube clip isn't even as long as the album version (that one is 14 minutes).

[Strawman]

What about the first 2 pieces of PFE.

Man I love those pieces.....!!!!!!!!

[polar_action]

Air Towel has the lyric "Should I want it" looping almost throughout.

(although I used to think the lyric was "fish without water" until I listend with headphones :p )

I think "fish without water" sounds great :)

[holden]

I think "fish without water" sounds great :)
Would have belonged on Beacoup Fish, then :p

Thanks, all! There are quite a lot of UW tracks with the voice effect looped. Always interesting to decipher or just let it entrance!