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January 10, 2009 11:10 AM

I'm looking for music that features really good stutter processing of vocal sounds (any really good stuttering of other sounds is welcome too, but I'm especially interested in vocals). Benchmark tracks would be Trentemoller's Moan, Modeselektor's 2000007, Funkstörung's Fat Camp Feva, Ellen Allien's Sehnsucht, and Look at Me by Villeneuve.

Bonus question: Someone once told me there was an autechre track where they start with a kick drum and glitch it until it reaches audio rates, then play a melody... what is that called?

posted by phrontist to Media & Arts (15 answers total)

Stay Fly- Three 6 Mafia
posted by bradly at 11:19 AM on January 10, 2009

I think Bingo Bango by Basement Jaxx might work. I'm not positive it was done digitally, but it may have been.
posted by Camel of Space at 11:31 AM on January 10, 2009

Find Chris de Luca's contribution to the Shotgun Wedding series.

I'm not sure which Autechre track you'd mean, but they were fairly influential in bringing that kind of vocal processing into modern electronic music. IIRC, the first track on the Envane EP is a good example.
posted by galaksit at 11:37 AM on January 10, 2009

DJ Hidden - Where's the Score? (Evol Intent remix) has a fantastic stutter at the breakdown. Also, look up BT's post-ESCM work.
posted by johnbaskerville at 11:39 AM on January 10, 2009

also: Suliman-Infected Mushroom
posted by bradly at 11:40 AM on January 10, 2009

Blur's Me White Noise, the hidden track on 2003's Think Tank, has an awesome stutter section in the chorus. There's alternate version on youtube, too, that has the same thing.
posted by Camel of Space at 11:40 AM on January 10, 2009

Modeselektor's Dancing Box (featuring the ever-weird TTC) comes to mind.
posted by sektah at 11:43 AM on January 10, 2009

Lightspeed Champion - Galaxy of the Lost (Bo$$ in Drama Remix)
posted by god particle at 11:59 AM on January 10, 2009

Lassigue Bendthaus did this a lot (using custom software) on their/his glitched-out-70s-pop-cover album Pop Artificielle. That Sad Steve site you linked to has a few tracks (try "Angie").
posted by neckro23 at 12:55 PM on January 10, 2009

Amon Tobin - Verbal

Full album of remixes.
posted by sophist at 1:17 PM on January 10, 2009

Telefon Tel Aviv's remix of Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments.
posted by softlord at 4:02 PM on January 10, 2009

A lot of Soft Pink Truth's music uses stutter effects, and not just for vocals - one good example is their remix of Bjork - In Our Hands (vocals processed from about 2 minutes in).

Si Begg also likes the stutter sound.
posted by p3t3 at 8:07 PM on January 10, 2009

Oh, and forgot - Pilooski does a lot of dance re-edits of old tunes, often stuttering the vocals in the process - Can't There Be Love is an extreme example.
posted by p3t3 at 8:21 PM on January 10, 2009

Front 242 did this way back when with pretty much everything on their 05:22:09:12 Off album (sometimes called Evil Off). "Animal" would be the take-away track.
posted by klangklangston at 11:29 AM on January 11, 2009

Late in the day, but I highly recommend Akufen's My Way. The few fast tracks use stuttering, cut-up vocals to great effect.
posted by shortfuse at 1:33 AM on January 21, 2009