'promo cd contains voice overs'

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is this always a bad thing ?

i say not. on a fairly normal dance mix the appearance of the vocoder-ised vocal can actually add a little lift to the basic 4/4 beat .. then again .. on hip hop albums it really becomes annoying.

which labels are the worst at this ?

i recall finding a Rawkus promo of tha beatminerz ages ago, and the voiceovers really became intrusive .. whereas with this bedrock mix they actually dont bother me ..

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Def Jux seems to be the most adamant proponent of this kind of stuff over here.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

if the purpose of the promo cd is to give reviewers a chance to listen to the album before it comes out, promo voice overs are a sure way to piss off said reviewer, who may in fact give it a bad review.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I remember the promo for Kate Bush's "Rubber band girl" single was a CD of someone (not kate) reading the lyrics.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

yes i have a def jux promo of some party album (its dreadful skits shit) and thats full of voiceovers ..

never reviewed that fucker.

xpost : mark g : that's just insane !

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

I should have kept all my Jux promos, just because the voice overs are so funny.

The Mr. Lif promo where the Promobot says Beeeeeeeeoooooootch makes me giggle when I think about it.

Didn't SA Smash choke the promobot to death on their promo?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

The promo I got for the last Beatnuts album had a voiceover announcing the title and release date every thirty seconds, which is so frequent and intrusive I couldn't pay attention to the music. It was infuriating and I don't think I made it through the second track before I flung the CD across the room.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

The promobots make me nuts. They're especially counterproductive in hip-hop, where they end up tramping over 60% of the rhymes. i've yet to hear a defense of them that i find even remotely justifiable.

― PeopleFunnyBoy (PeopleFunnyBoy), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

It took me about four tracks in to realise that it was actually a promobot and not some weird vocal tic on the new Quasimoto album.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

If it doesn't have the seal on it...you got fucked.

― deej.., Monday, 4 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh, is this where you get some jingle and a voice going "underground airplay" or whatever?? (I don't own a lot of promo cds).

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 4 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

thought of def jux as soon as i read the thread title. i actually find it odd to hear the cannibal ox album without the promo warning ...

― dh, Monday, 4 July 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

The worst I've heard was the Madvillain.
I got a promo, it was not listenable honestly.

― C11 (C11), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

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