The latest output of Remote Possibility, Canis Horribillis, started out as an early instrumental effort of the virtual band called "Ummmm," which has some trippy xylophone and percussion effects and a compelling, if innovatively tuned, guitar riff by Vincent Knobil. But the ever churning mind of Matt Love, aka IcePac, dreamt up some lyrics for the tune - kind of mixture of "Hell Hound on my Trail" and "Knick Knack Paddy Wack" - and shopped it around for contributors.
To make a long story short, in this particular version (others may be forthcoming), I "sing" the main vocals, using my best western drawl. I also played the drums. A woman calling herself Liza did a test recording which I used snippets of in the beginning. The stars of the show, however, in my opinion, are the saxophone tracks provided by Ryan Ray. He rips a crazy solo near the end of the tune followed by some wonderful vamping against the percussion at the very end.
Mixing the song was a challenge. I had to do a lot of tinkering to get everything synced up and find a reasonable balance. I experimented with synth effects and creative EQ but was never happy with anything that I tried so I ended up using little in the way of effects except adding some reverb and touch of compression on the drum track. I dinked around with adding a bass line but couldn't come up with anything that sounded decent or didn't muddy things up.
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