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RADIO 1 DJ Chris Moyles is being turned into the star of an online game with the help of a Keele viral marketing specialist.

Koko Digital has landed a deal from record label Sony Music to create a game to promote the DJ's forthcoming album of parody songs.

The result – Parody Island – will see gamers controlling an animated version of Moyles as he races around collecting the notes and lyrics he needs to complete his album.

http://www.thisisbusiness-staffordshire.co.uk/news/Online-game-helps-star-DJ-reach-album-release/article-1451303-detail/article.html

Oo-er. Looks like online games are all the rage lately.

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what !!! they changed the barack obama song to not what it was before and it ruins it

Oh you're right. It's a proper LSF parody. That's disappointing actually. I'd rather the stuff they did on the radio. I think they've made it too complex there.

Camilla Ice/Dance Wiv Me is great on the upside.

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I personally don't think the additional songs will add to the parody album much as they're not parodies. It seems like the Barack Obama song will be a disappointment. And I'm not too sure on 'It's Never Gonna Snow' either.

The parodies themselves, other than Barack Obama, are pretty decent and of a good quality. This is what will make it worth it.

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Wow, have they autotuned it? I really don't like it at all. It sounds way too overproduced. I understand why it is, but the rawness made the originals much better. This.. I don't even know what this is. But it's not very good and although I never planned on buying it, I'm not even gonna steal it now.

EDIT: F*ck me, never is the overproduction so profound as in Dance Wiv Me. If even Calvin Harris sounds shit, you know you've fucked up.

 

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Wow, have they autotuned it? I really don't like it at all. It sounds way too overproduced. I understand why it is, but the rawness made the originals much better. This.. I don't even know what this is. But it's not very good and although I never planned on buying it, I'm not even gonna steal it now.
I was expecting something like this actually.
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Wow, have they autotuned it? I really don't like it at all. It sounds way too overproduced. I understand why it is, but the rawness made the originals much better. This.. I don't even know what this is. But it's not very good and although I never planned on buying it, I'm not even gonna steal it now.

I see where you're coming from, but I like the production values, sounds really good - and the orchestration of LSF (I know the Barack Obama lyrics ruin the bit in the clip) sounds fantastic. Don't think there's autotune, and if so, not much. I think it's more there's considerable overlaying of tracks. I guess they figured if it's a full album, they can't really get away with it being 'raw', or they'd just be more proud of doing it in full. It does make it feel less like a 'parody', and more of a full song, and if that's right or wrong depends on your point of view. I like it though. Possibly too far in some cases, but I expect playing the high quality files (like, not reduced bitrate for online streaming) should sound really good.

Possibly overlaying so many vocal tracks to distract from the singing... :P

Original songs... Hrrm, right now, could take them or leave them. I like the idea of them parodying an album as a whole rather than just parodying songs, so having your Funeral Song and Album Track etc could be alright in full, and the cheesy Christmas style one (though not as catchy as the CM World Cup song in terms of generic genre/event parody). Lyrically in structure they seem lazy though, just rhyming couplets. They remind me of the sort of thing Mitch Benn would do, but less musical standard in terms of writing them. Last Track is about 5 minutes long though, so how that ends up in full... we'll see.

I love the extended Nana Windows from what we hear, nice to hear a verse. The parodies sound great though, in my opinion. I still think Greatest DJ right at the end would have been good though, particularly with what the album cover is based on... >.>

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I see where you're coming from, but I like the production values, sounds really good - and the orchestration of LSF (I know the Barack Obama lyrics ruin the bit in the clip) sounds fantastic. Don't think there's autotune, and if so, not much. I think it's more there's considerable overlaying of tracks. I guess they figured if it's a full album, they can't really get away with it being 'raw', or they'd just be more proud of doing it in full. It does make it feel less like a 'parody', and more of a full song, and if that's right or wrong depends on your point of view. I like it though. Possibly too far in some cases, but I expect playing the high quality files (like, not reduced bitrate for online streaming) should sound really good.

Possibly overlaying so many vocal tracks to distract from the singing... :P

Original songs... Hrrm, right now, could take them or leave them. I like the idea of them parodying an album as a whole rather than just parodying songs, so having your Funeral Song and Album Track etc could be alright in full, and the cheesy Christmas style one. Lyrically in structure they seem lazy though, just rhyming couplets. They remind me of the sort of thing Mitch Benn would do, but less musical standard in terms of writing them.

I love the extended Nana Windows from what we hear, nice to hear a verse. The parodies sound great though, in my opinion. I still think Greatest DJ right at the end would have been good though, particularly with what the album cover is based on... >.>

wow a first proper music review for the album and i agree with everything i think it going to be like the flight of the conchords album i got loved there songs on youtube live and stuff edith bowman used to play got the album and they all sounded realy different and i didnt like it what i think might happen with this.

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