Originally by dusty. Requested by librarygirl6. 

I loooved this piece by Metaphorest, and I was thinking about it at work and this tune came into my head. 

And then this happened.

I made up the harmonies so I hope they are alright. I know the timing and things goes off a little, but I hope it gets the idea across! I imagined lots of brass/trombone blaring at the pauses ^__^

<3

Oh I'm not one for extremes

Oh I don't have big dreams

Or grand schemes

I'm a rubber stamp.

[A Rubber stamp]

Oh I drink out from the trough

And not from dainty cups

Yeah that's enough

I'm a rubber stamp

[A rubber stamp]

I'm a stage-left observer

An certainty swerver

A slow stepper

A limelight leper

I'm a rubber stamp

[A rubber stamp]

Oh though I'm trying to improve

I'm just too slow to move

Part moth at the lamp

I'm a rubber stamp.

For Jordyn. Because this poem is so moving. She is fantabulously talented <3

this was a few months in the making, and I'm very pleased to upload this as my 500th RECord :)

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okay, so there's quite a lot of things going on here:

the MIDI drum kit & percussion, distorted bass keyboard, and SLICER guitar are my original contributions.

the SLICER guitar parts are bits of guitar experimenting that I picked the most appropriate bits from and looped.

the audio of Joe is taken directly from his original video RECord.
the most unique thing about this mix is that, aside from the 3 edits I made to space out his differents parts of the speech, his audio is RAW AND UNEDITED - neither Joe's speech or my drums (which were made before the concept to put them together was made) were set to match one another - quite the happy accident there.

the distorted sounds you hear throughout the mix are actually Metaphorest's voice - her different vocal parts from "Weapon" in fact - spliced, stretched, and distorted
her voice appears elsewhere in different forms throughout the mix (she's the feedback you hear at the end)

the horns were the last addition. they RECorded their parts without hearing this mix, or even knowing how they would sound in it - which makes their seamless inclusion all the more surprising.
(big thanks to Marybeth & Kat for taking the time to RECord their parts for this)

I hope you enjoy this.

Robo J