Nono / The Stomper (OP001)
JtotheC
A-side : Nono
B-side : Nono (LuiGi’s YesYes Remix) / The Stomper
OP01 – JtotheC – Nono by on-point
Available on vinyl : Rushhour.nl / Juno.co.uk / hhv.de / Ask your local record don.
Digitally available : as a free download.
Release notes:
The story behind nono:
“Nono” was basically a microphone check. That day, I’d gotten a brilliant vintage bulletmicrophone from my friend Alex D, as a present. All I wanted to find out was how that thing sounded like, because that thing looked really ancient, and I wasn’t even sure if it would work. I always want to do something else when I’m testing a mic, instead of the usual and boring “1..2…, 1…2…” or “tsssah… tsssah…” like most people do, I started humming and came up with this tune that turned out to be a catchy tune for an interlude!
I didn’t want any “lalala’s” on it, so I started to say “no-no”. And that old mic did work! It sounded different than my other microphones, a bit sharp and metallic even. Little did I know this microphone was not even intended for vocals, but its purpose is to record harmonicas, or so Shimmy Timmy told me. That’s why it sounded so sharp and metallic. I thought it would be big fun to record a track like that entirely with just my vocals, and maybe just my oldschool wakeup clock – which I’d been waking up to ever since I was as a kid – as a metronome, so I just did! The big nerd in me said I simply couldn’t just say “no”, so that’s why i did the backing vocals saying “yeah”. Hahaha… that’s wassup.
The story behind a stomper:
I had only just recorded “Nono”, and the same week I was jamming on the philicorda organ, and it has this oldschool reverb in it. A big spring inside the thing which produces the reverb-sound, makes a rumble-thunder sound everytime you move, or when someone accidentally hits or bumps into the organ. I figured it would be a great experiment as well as an exercise for me to try some stuff out with this rumble-sound. So I started playing the organ with one hand, and slapping it with the other, like people do sometimes with an acoustic guitar. I also stomped my feet on my wooden floor, with a tambourine laying on the ground, next to the organ. Hahaha… I had a lot of fun, so I recorded this with just one mic, and it sounded really rough when I listened back to it. A great rhytmic experience!
The story behind LuiGi:
Louis Van De Leest aka LuiGi is a Brussels based producer who is part of the Infinitskills trio since 2002. After gathering his favorite Belgian producers on the Nine compilation and producing a few tracks on Baloji’s Hotel Impala album, Louis launched the “Louie Gee Ensemble” project to experiment around Jazz projects, with which he released the notable “Scrabble” single, out on Jazzy Sport.
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