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- adjective Processed with a
vocoder .
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Examples
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Others have described his lyrics as "vocoded," but they aren't.
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Others have described his lyrics as "vocoded," but they aren't.
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When I was 9, I bought the "Fear of Music" album for the song "Cities", which was a minor AOR hit in Detroit at the time; the radio commercials for that record, featuring a vocoded voice repeating the phrase, "Talking Heads have a new album; it's called Fear of Music", each time with another note in the chord added, were also quite cool, but I digress.
"It was a time of uncertainty, hope and change. The summer of love." Ann Althouse 2008
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The first line Common drops is "This is/that automatic," and it's an appropriate intro to the title track, which blandly apes '80s electro (Newcleus, Afrika Bambaataa) from the vocoded chorus to the Kraftwerk-ish central synth line.
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Woffle sounds like a vocoded parody of David Aaronovitch .... a "Woffle in Sheep's Clothing" perhaps?
How mad is Tony Blair? Rachel 2006
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There are moments of what sound like heavily vocoded speech, computer babble filtered through layers of feedback and transformative algorithms.
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Something About Us by Daft Punk, performed on Nintendo DS Ubisoft Jam Sessions, Midi controlled software electric bass, drums, synth, vocoded vocals, and solo theremin, recorded in a single pass, with a single camera.
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The laser beam melodies and vocoded jumble of 'Death 9000' sound a little like a hi-fi take on the sort of Betamax-chewing new wave of someone like Dylan Ettinger, while other highlights tread a very different path - 'Morning Strut' has its foundations in good old fashioned sampling, while 'Crackers' goes all out for cartoonish, yammering techno complete with over-compression and gaudy synth arpeggios.
AvaxHome SERTiL 2010
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Oddly enough, the sore thumb on the disc, "Help Me Make It Right" features synths that are much more modern in sound, distortion on the drum machine and heavily vocoded voices that sound far less conventional than the rest, is probably my least favorite track here.
Brainwashed 2010
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Nintendo DS Ubisoft Jam Sessions, Midi controlled software electric bass, drums, synth, vocoded vocals, and solo theremin, recorded in a single pass, with a single camera.
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