A Stevie Wonder classic song on the Minimoog D

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My remake of the song "You haven’t done nothin’ " from the 1974 album “Fulfillingnes’ first finale”.

Drums: Vintage Roland TR-77
Vocoder: Alesis ion.
Everything else: Minimoog D on many multiple tracks

Note: everything played live by hand, one track at a time except drum machine of course :wink: .
I decided to sing into a vocoder because I can’t really sing that well.

Enjoy this remake.

http://soundcloud.com/thealien666/you-havent-done-nothin-stevie/s-PprjE

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This is really great! I love that album and you managed to capture all the parts pretty damn well!
The vocoder is something a bit different and I like how you kept the end bends on the first lines of the verses. :smiley:

Keep up the good work!

Regards,
David Smyth
NZ

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Thanks David. I’m glad it was up to your expectations :smiley:

It wasn’t easy, as I’m no Stevie Wonder on the keys, and a few things are still missing but having spent the last three days on it, I felt it was good enough.

Yeah, that vocoder is rather rough, but gives it a new “robotic” flavor. It was kinda hard operating the mod wheels while singing a certain “special” way for the vocoder (articulating a lot more than usual).

Thanks again. :wink:

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Enjoyed it. I love that era, and actually remember that album and song very well. Always loved me some stevie, thanks.