Great Attention by Buttress O'Kneel

okay! well, this did not begin as a full-length album. this began as just a single song, Doja Cat's vocals over NIN's music, with additional drunken vocal cultural commentary by Doja. but then i kept being drawn back to the material, and it kept reforming itself in my head (and in my heart).

so some notes:

🌊 she doesn't say the word "pussy" in Attention, but the absence of that word felt strong in my version, so i took it from her song Gun instead - i think it worked okay?

🌊 the Yo Mama Said mix was made because the drum rhythms in the NIN always remind me of that little Adventure Time ditty. also this mix has lots of field-recording-type ambience because the Adventure Time stuff felt weird without something behind it.

🌊 the Below mix is taking Doja's voice and vocoding the NIN music with it so that it's the tones of NIN but the mouth-shape of Doja. i then stuck this under the ocean - several different recordings of the sea, above and below, went into this.

🌊 the Opposite Mix is NIN words over Doja music, with additional vocal cultural commentary by Uncle Rezrez. i love that he even used the word "attention", perfect.

🌊 the Yo Mama Mulched mix is sticking the Yo Mama mix through my PopChopper setups in Audiomulch. mostly improv!

🌊 the Etisoppo mix started as just an Octaverted version of the Opposite mix (i thought i'd make the opposite version REALLY opposite!) - then i tweaked it a bit to make it funner and shorter and glitchier, and then i remembered the episode of Adventure Time where Finn is scared of the ocean, so i had to use that as well.

🌊 the Makes Me Disappear mix is a couple of Paulstretches of an early version of the original track, a regular stretch and a tonal stretch, which i then re-incorporated.

🌊 and all the Kelp Forest mixes are taking the entire folder of mixes, unused mixes, semi-mixes, raw materials, instrumentals, and AI stems, and letting Forester 22 use them all as source material. huge jams were had, i cut them down to a bunch of shorter tracks, only used about half of them because i like my albums to be shorter than a CD. oh also, the numbers are just what Forester 2 calls the sessions, i think they are more to do with what time it was when i made the tracks, rather than what the date is! weird but it is what it is.

🐟 HUGE THANKS to everyone who bought it when we all still thought it was just a single track, and for being so supporting and understanding as i gradually added five million other versions. there are so many other versions i could make, i really feel like this is honestly just scraping the surface of what can be done here (I DIDN'T EVEN MIDIFY ANYTHING) but i'll leave that to u. i think i'm done now!

peace and love
b🐡k

Tracklist

1.	Great Attention	7:13

2.	Great Attention (Kelp Forest 18 28 11_02 Mix)	1:38

3.	Great Attention (Kelp Forest 18 28 11_06 Mix)	3:42

4.	Great Attention (Yo Mama Said Mix)	7:50

5.	Great Attention (Kelp Forest 19 15 55_01 Mix)	4:09

6.	Great Attention (Below Mix)	4:23

7.	Great Attention (Kelp Forest 20 0 45_02 Mix)	2:20

8.	Great Attention (Opposite Mix)	4:44

9.	Great Attention (Kelp Forest 20 0 45_01 Mix)	5:23

10.	Great Attention (Kelp Forest 18 28 11_04 Mix)	4:22

11.	Great Attention (Yo Mama Mulched Mix)	7:45

12.	Great Attention (Kelp Forest 20 16 12_1 Mix)	3:52

13.	Great Attention (Kelp Forest 18 28 11_07 Mix)	3:12

14.	Great Attention (Etisoppo Mix)	3:13

15.	Great Attention (Makes Me Disappear Mix)	14:38

Credits

released October 31, 2023

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.