[Rhemphill]

One of the concrete ones I know is the flutey sax highlight of lying in the grass is a sample of his.

What are some other cool parts we think he added?

[tsurimin]

potentially some stuff with a vocoder on golden gal

[dio]

ya vocoder all over golden gal. i dont know if i even knew that was a vocoder part before the show. but ya there's that weird thing where its like we'll never totally know what he does? i mean with live vids u can probably catch a lot of shit he does with bass pedals and stuff, but the sampley/synth/noise stuff he does is harder to distinguish. kind of cool how thats mysterious in a way, since there usually is multiple ppl do synths/samples...

but ya feel like u can feel his personality a lot on mpp and painting with since their ratio of contributions must be more in a smaller group.. if we get a really good vid of this tour i bet you can see how much synth and bass he's laying down

also i def went with his cover. love how we essentially got all 3 covers tho + a unique one...

[roopn]

there are lots of good videos from the sj era where you can see him working a mixer to put in whooshy sounds. This cuckoo cuckoo vid comes to mind:

[destiny]

what the heck does geologist do on purple bottle??? does he sing??

['Bros' Owl]

I bet he put the 'no dinosaurs to worry about' clip on Hocus Pocus.. one of PW's many highlights.

[partario]

from their interview with Billboard :

BW: Some people were like "I don’t understand what that dinosaur sample is" and that was kind of the point. The radio host was transitioning from talking about dinosaurs, maybe how much money Jurassic World made, and then talking about traffic. We were listening to it going to the studio and heard it and thought, "Whoa." We knew if we took that in isolation it would be a funny thing. So we looked at the time on the clock and when we got to the studio I sent an email to our manager and said, "She said this sentence on KCRW at this time and we want it."

[inkspot]

partario wrote:

"She said this sentence on KCRW at this time and we want it."

what the? and they GOT IT?

that's... scary!

the power!

they must have...


fuck!

[speen]

Geologist was in charge of filling the kiddie pool

[rehhrehhhrehhrooohhh]

w8

pretty sure almost every swirl/blurp/sonic embellishment in the album IS geo right? it's always been this way + last two albums he's been laying down bass & synth too

[inkspot]

ALL SOUNDS GO THROUGH GEO

HE IS THE GLUE

[rehhrehhhrehhrooohhh]

inkspot wrote:

ALL SOUNDS GO THROUGH GEO

HE IS THE GLUE

precisely

[dio]

figured they heard that dino radio sample while recording in LA or that avey had at some point. man blockbusters suck but i had an edible and saw jurassic world this summer and thought it was pretty great... maybe thats part of why i like this album so much? only those that go way back..

[Stanshant]

demonclusters wrote:

Geologist was in charge of filling the kiddie pool

I laughed.

[thespectrum]

Geologist probably has the most fun in the studio hands down. Based on my (tiny) recording studio experience, vocals are hella stressful to record. Geo probably just goes wild with sounds and textures and indeed makes the songs feel truly special.

[valar602]

FEEL ON1NE!!! wrote:

what the heck does geologist do on purple bottle??? does he sing??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzVOpJGW9bg

its that sample at the beginning which builds the song up, you can hear it around 0.50 secs into the studio. he freaks the fuck out in this. I imagine in Painting With he does alot of the melodic weird sounds that pan around your head. I wish we knew who made what sounds specifically on each album. I'd kill to hear all the individual tracks.

[jfw7]

oh man i don't know that video. i don't listen to that sj era v much, cool energy

[dance avey dance]

The cute synth riff at the end of Crimson (the "when people start talking" part) is him and it makes me melt every time!

[Tropic]

I love all the noises in that song. It conjures this juxtaposing image of sledgehammers banging on needles in my head.

And it sounds like it's trying to be really quiet and loud at the same time. Great stuff.
That and NTB are the sonic highlights of the CHz era.

[thespectrum]

Yeah Crimson makes the applesauce 7 inch just that much better. such a good b side

[warhorse miraged]

Aziza wrote:

I think some of Brian's best ever work is on that one, esp. those unreal concrète segues.

i thought i read somewhere that avey did most of the transitions on chz ? and that he also did those crazy fx during the verses of rosie oh.

it's kinda hard to single out what geo specifically does on most songs. i mean we can assume whatever he does live he does on record but even that isn't a for sure thing.

avey + panda solo records as well as the ac albums that only feature them two all have tons of crazy 'sounds' going on during the songs so i don't think geo is necessarily responsible for every little sound that goes on in the albums

this isn't trying to say he doesn't do a lot just that its hard to pinpoint the EXACT things he's doing

[jetski]

That's a good point, like in their AMA Geo said that he didn't actually play on Baleen Sample. Avey and Deakin processed some horror movie samples from an old minidisc of Geo's, so he was credited for the samples

[dance avey dance]

they called him the "bass man" for chz...all of the moog sounds were played with his crazy foot pedal

[thespectrum]

i feel like the 'campfire hz' session (as dubbed by CA) is the best place to clearly hear Geo doing his thing.

[thespectrum]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ojtx7bR0A#t=27[/youtube]

[weirdradio]

Listening to his side of the New Psycho Actives gives a fair idea of his style and ideas, also Jailhouse on the Keep tape

Deep down we always knew he was the...

[inkspot]

now we just need:

Geologists CONFESSIONS

[Fovrodi]

From old boards

wrote:

Geologist: i used to do vocals and drum processing in the danse/hollindagain/indian days because we used that roland synth as a processor. it has an extrenal audio input and you can plug instruments and microphones into it and use the envelopes and oscillators as filters for whatever is running through the input. so if we wanted something to or vascillate in a weird way the dudes would send me a line and i'd effect it with the controls on the synth. it wasn't on every song though, just a few. some examples of where i did that stuff are lablakely dress, too soon, arrow, thrown the round ball...

Less specific one but still insightful

wrote:

i have minidisc players and samplers loaded with sounds and loops i have pre-recorded. sometimes they are field recordings, sometimes they are melodic sounds of the other dudes playing, sometimes it's feedback, sometimes keyboards, sometimes samples from other sources. i use the mixer to weave them and trigger them into the songs in the appropriate places, and i have 2 effects processors on stage that i use if a sound needs an extra layer of effect to make it sound good on stage, or if i have to manipulate something live and in rhythm with the song.

And huge ones: Big foot samples all over the place. The one already mentioned from Purple Bottle is a supposed Bigfoot call. Yodel-y "oooh!" stuff in Daffy Duck also Bigfoot calls. I thought it was panda.

Intro to Reverend Green is narration from a big foot doc but pitched down "believe it or not you're listening to the sounds of Bigfoot in its natural habitat." The coolest thing was Avey saying he didn't even know, geo just threw it in.

May have not been answered outright but I'm certain Geo did the closing sounds for Unsolved Mysteries.

Intro sample to My Girls is from the casini spacecraft and Geos the one who added it

[Panda Tatari]

I have always thought he is responsible for that Banjo sample on the end of Brother Sport, always liked the way that songs ends.

[destiny]

dude im listening to bigfoot calls right now and geo is such a fucking genius

[archie]

i feel like geo has a really unique and lateral way of thinking of music in a textural sort of way that influences the band massively thru out their discography, you can see this a lot in the bands he'll point to as influences and their attitude towards making music

[Stanshant]

I wonder if you just add Geologist to any old shithouse band they would sound like Animal Collective? Fucking Maroon 5 ft. Geologist with 'Chef Rodney', a song about Chef Gordon Rodney with a load of mad sounds on it ft. Santana as well.

Burial and Geologist - Railway Sleeper b/w Dogshit Flan.