The "DoDo Project": The Album!

At last it’s here!!

The ‘DoDo Project’ is a complete performance of Aimee Mann’s 2000 Album Bachelor No. 2 or the Last Remains Of The Dodo, put together by Ymaginatif and Maceo in the first four months of 2012.

Ymaginatif recorded guitars, bass, keyboards, drums and vocals at home (at moments when the baby was asleep), and sent the masters to Maceo who then provided some more vocals and took care of mixing and valuable post-production (also at home and at moments when the baby was asleep).

The result is a wildly varied and out-of-character album (Ymaginatif’s second virtual album), purely for your entertainment and in honour, not only of Aimee Mann’s superb lyrics and song-writing, but also of www.entropymc.com (and its creator) for providing the playground of the people involved.

 (artwork by Maxim)

Side 1:

1. How Am I Different (Brion-Mann)

2. Nothing Is Good Enough

3. Red Vines

4. The Fall Of the World’s Own Optimist (Costello-Mann)

5. Satellite

6. Deathly

7. Ghost World

Side 2:

1. Calling It Quits

2. Susan

3. It Takes All Kinds (Brion-Mann)

4. Save Me
5. You Do
6. Backfire

7. Just Like Anyone

Let us know what you think! :)

The "DoDo Project": Preview Single!

Press Release:

The “DoDo Project” starts here!

I’m sure you all know, but Bachelor No. 2 or the Last Remains Of The Dodo is Aimee Mann’s third studio album, which was originally released in 2000. It is one of the best albums in Pop Music. Says Y.

 

By mid-March 2012 Y had recorded sixteen tracks for the project. At that point he was contacted by soundman Maceo, who had heard about Y working on something. Before having heard any of the songs, he volunteered to do some post-production on some of the tracks. However, after a few very effective test-mixes, both he and Y agreed that he should have a go at the entire album. His input was essential to opening these songs up to a wider sound-spectrum, whilst cutting out Y’s tendency to overproduction. He even added some vocals here and there. In Maceo’s words: ‘The album sounds better with each listen!’

By the end of the month, the project is now nearing its completion – give them another 2 or 3 weeks for finalizing the mixes and sequencing the whole thing. But we love the album so much that a preview single is called for!

Well, here it is: 

Backfire (Maceo Mix) b/w Just Like Anyone (Demo)

Side A:

Side B:

Both songs are written by Aimee Mann and performed by Ymaginatif in his (rare) spare time. Backfire has post-production by Maceo!

PS Original artwork by Maxim

The "DoDo Project": the remix EP

Good news!
Maxim has just agreed to produce an EP of remixes of selected tracks from the "DoDo Project"!

The album itself probably won't be ready before mid April - but I'm think of perhaps previewing a single here by the end of the week!

The "DoDo Project" Artwork Preview

As I said before ... it's coming soon!

(Thanks Maxim for the artwork)

Update On the "DoDo Project"

16 songs are now recorded for the "DoDo Project" - which is now in its finals stages!

Two people in the world have listened to it, and they loved it ...

But before I put it out here, Maceo has agreed to do some of his post-production and mixing on these tracks! Lovely!

announcement

You may think things are a bit quiet around here?

Is this another blog that went down with the megaupload crash?

no

The truth is that I've been working on something bigger than usual, which started in mid January.

Now, forty days later and with the end in sight, I can say: coming soon on a site near to you:

"Ymaginatif - The DoDo Project"

... what?