Soundforest Voice Fusions Cdda-CoBaLT

Team CoBaLT | 06-06-2003 | 755.26 MB
ource samples, particularly in the dance/house areas. With their double-disc Voice Fusions collection, Soundforest stays true to their promise of staying away from genre-generic cliches... no "oooh whooo gimme da beat baby" crap here. With a head-spinning array of voice synthesis and effects, these speech-based samples are unpredictably diverse.
Already-enigmatic (spoken and sung) snippets (such as "Think what glories God can make from the fertilizer of sinning...", "Don't be polite when owls are out by day...", "Hair loss and many other disturbing complaints", "the facial equivalent of a wall" and many, many more) are subjected to a plethora of sonic mutations... including (but definitely not limited to) pitch shifting, doubling, reverbing, vocoding, panning, slicing, dicing and a host of other multiple transformative effects. Many of the longer samples have been rendered into quite interesting soundscapes, only vaguely humanistic after a deluge of shapeshifting audiomagic.

Various "categories" add some degree of order to the multitudinous samples; those from Old Time include singalongs and spoken bits which are all topped by extra doses vinyl-like static, and Vocoder Voices specialize in flowingly robotic transformations, often chimingly musical renditions of obtuse statements. Unintelligibly fragmentized but still obviously of human origin, New World Phrases are stirred, stretched and tonalized into drifting entities.

Monstrously deep intonations bark from Shaman Signs, while Machine Man tends toward more-metallic reverberations. Looping phraselets become Voice Rhythms and even-further-deconstructed particles are strewn throughout the Beatland section.