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Little Umbrellas (Searchl1te Edit)

from Hot Rats Edits by Ryan Searchl1te

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Like a lot of music nerd white boys, I was a huge Frank Zappa fan in high school and Hot Rats was my undisputed favorite album of his. I knew at the time that some totally different shit was happening on it compared with his earlier Mothers of Invention stuff. It's only been in the past year or so that I revisited Hot Rats and discovered exactly why it spoke to me the way it did.

THE. FUCKING. DRUMS.

"Zappa was among the first to record drums on multiple tracks. This made it possible to create a stereo drum sound. Prior to this time the entire drum set was typically recorded to a single (mono) track of an 8-track recorder. On Hot Rats, however, four of the tracks were assigned to the main drum set, including individual tracks for the snare and bass drums and left and right tracks for other drums and cymbals. In this setup the engineer had unprecedented control over the sound of each drum component in the final mix. This technique was widely imitated and became the norm in the early 1970s when machines with 16 or more tracks became widely available."

However, upon relistening, I was super irritated by Zappa's guitar noodling. It sounds like he's scribbling all over the monstrous rhythm section. I had to show the bass and drums the respect they deserved. I had to do something. Please enjoy Hot Rats Edits, which is basically Hot Rats with no noodles...and extra sauce.

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from Hot Rats Edits, released April 4, 2020

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“[Searchl1te] ditches the brainless foursquare beats that serve as cha-cha diagrams for the honkiest segment of the club population …His tracks are made of hearty, pulse-pounding stuff: mile-high quantum-overdrive synth pulses, queasy stereo-phase effects from your best panic attack, and sub-sonic free falls that aim to evacuate your bowels.” — Chicago Reader ... more

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