"Stax, being that it's a legendary soul label, the whole process of recording the album in itself was smooth sailing, " James says.

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For example, you shut off the unit or the battery dies, and you have to start at the beginning or go through a medieval process of physically recording track numbers.

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When I ask him about it, Fiasco smiles and proceeds to speak of the artistic freedom the label afforded him with Food and Liquor 2, and how different the process was from that of recording and releasing Lasers.

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And in the process of experiencing, observing, recording, and writing, I found my passion: writing.

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Yamaha's proprietary Compressed Music Enhancer technology compensates for the lost detail of audio that is compressed during the "ripping" process, recapturing the essence of the original recording.

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We both liked that kind of spur-of-the-moment improvisation in the recording process, you know.

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That said, Hungry, Hungry Ghost makes music that effectively captures the intimacy inherent in the recording process and conveys a sound that is surprisingly polished and fleshed out, with a wide assortment of instruments and sound effects, from the ukulele, to bells, to trumpets, to the occasional synthesizer.

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