Should we have an acapella board again?

[Nerd42]

It can easily turn into a "guilty by association" kinda thing. Linking to sites is the same as having that kind of stuff on your site...to some people who have teams of lawyers.

Best to keep away from it...IMO.

The only way they could litigate that would be to ask the Supreme Court to "unplug the Internet" whatever that would mean

[ToToM]

Why isn't there a full acapella for "Cotton Eye'd Joe"? The CD single is out there, with full song and full instrumental, which should line up.

Why don't we have Rob Dougan vocals? He released an instrumentals album for "Furious Angels"

not every instrumental works for a substraction. Try it with Stylo, it has (purposely I think) maybe 0.1 BPM difference with the original which is enough to make it impossible. And I think Rob Dougan is better at doing instrumental

I'd really like to give a try with Cotton-Eyed Joe though... even if I think its too old to be recorded 100% digitally, which makes, again, (simple) substraction impossible.

[cmcpress]

actually TT, 100% digital recordings have been commercially available since the mid 80's (DDD used to be on the CD's)..

[ToToM]

actually TT, 100% digital recordings have been commercially available since the mid 80's (DDD used to be on the CD's)..

I guess some artists chose to have an analog element (like tapes) on some step to get a "warmer" feeling, which is probably why most instrumentals before the end of the 90s aren't eligible for a decent substraction. Also because most singles featuring instrumentals have been on vinyls rather CDs. More recently with the MP3 and the "real" digital age, most instrumentals work.

[Nerd42]

Why isn't there a full acapella for "Cotton Eye'd Joe"? The CD single is out there, with full song and full instrumental, which should line up.

Why don't we have Rob Dougan vocals? He released an instrumentals album for "Furious Angels"

not every instrumental works for a substraction. Try it with Stylo, it has (purposely I think) maybe 0.1 BPM difference with the original which is enough to make it impossible. And I think Rob Dougan is better at doing instrumental

I'd really like to give a try with Cotton-Eyed Joe though... even if I think its too old to be recorded 100% digitally, which makes, again, (simple) substraction impossible.

You're right that Dougan's real talent is in his instrumentals, but his vocal performance on "Born Yesterday" was awesome. Really gave that song an added vibe that the instrumental by itself just doesn't have. With the vocals, I could possibly remix the Furious Angels album to be more danceable

I know the BPMs are sometimes slightly different, but can't that be overcome somehow when both recordings are digital and have the same effects going on, like on Furious Angels?

There's a full version and instrumental on the original Cotton Eye'd Joe CD single.