Although you may think I haven’t rapped. I did do some rapping on \Fresh Dog\ and wrote all therap content for \Silver Tongue\ as well as doing some rapping as entertainment at the summer camp I work at.

My wife and I met working in a camp environment, got married at a summer camp etc. Although this is not a particular story, she liked the song and just wanted to be sure it wasn’t about someone else.

We thought it would be a bit of a risk to do socially relevant rap, since we were pretty sure everyone else would be doing party rap or nerdcore, and we might come across as stuffy or boring by comparison. We were also going for a slower old-school style, and weren’t sure how that would fly.

I’m certainly not going to start off with the intention of rapping again anytime soon, but I think I might try it if faced with lyrics I can’t get to work as melody. F’rinstance, I don’t thing I could successfully put this to a tune.

BTW, the book is \How to Rap, The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC\ by Paul Edwards. The tips on charting flow were extremely helpful, though most of the rest of the book reads as if it’s written for someone with ADHD.

Thanks for doing reviews! I really liked your rap, and from your performance I was not surprised to read that you’ve rapped before.

Also, I gotta say that Matt & Donna had the catchiest hook of all the submissions.

There actually is a higher register guitar riff during the chorus that you may or may not be able to hear with headphones. I had production difficulties and couldn’t get it loud enough without being shrill and/or burying the vocals.

Glad you enjoyed it.

As for the instruments, everything I use is synthetic. In my opinion, the weird drums that NIN uses so often sound really stupid, so I’m not too concerned with my version of them sounding “fake”. And the guitar I wanted to use wasn’t functioning with the rest of the music. I find that the further I stray from instruments that “sound real”, i.e. the obvious cybernetic/sci-fi synths, the harder it is to have “real-sounding” synths blend with them.

Besides, if anyone can take one of my songs and improve the presentation, I say go for it. I do all this on my computer, so there’s not going to be any “ITC Live and In Concert” albums any time soon.