Van Peebles had begun a musical career with the album Brer Soul (1969), which featured a mostly spoken vocal style that prefigured rap.
The opener, the title track, is eerie and portentous, Eno's impossibly deep spoken vocal perched atop synth washes that slowly unfurl.
Felix is a meticulous producer and his club hit, "Silver Screen (Shower Scene)," which was heard more than once on Wednesday night, matches a catchy spoken vocal to a lush, cascading electronic pulse.
It was part spoken vocals, part performance art and part breathy, lyrical singing, with Gisburg accompanying herself at the piano.
African hip-hop, including the good stuff, tends toward derivative r&b derivatives with spoken vocals — beatmaking in the American sense doesn't seem to happen there.
Childhood friends Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sims's spoken vocals have a conversational style that makes for a close-knit, almost disturbingly intimate listen that's somehow simultaneously joyful and melancholy.
In the closing track of "Endless Fantasy," an alternately ebullient and moody song called "(T-T b," T-T band setheforth, in unadorned spoken vocals, a philosophy that seems at once starry-eyed and plausiband "Your natural setse is enlightenment.
Cillian contributes spoken vocals to the tracks "8 58" and "The Clock" from Paul Hartnoll's 8 58.
Ocean's singing exhibits quickly descending chord succession and is overdubbed against his spoken vocals.
"Avalanche" also features Jarvis Cocker's hauntingly deep spoken vocals, but Boys Noize's familiar glitchy stylings come in at about a minute and a half to spice things up a bit.
With its bare bones rhythms, single key synth lines and breathy spoken vocals, "Face The Truth" by Hercules & Love Affair alumnus Shaun J. Wright and fellow Chicago producer Alinka taps into the minimalist spirit of the Windy City's early house music anthems by the likes of Robert Owens and Larry Heard.
