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MikeK
Since: Jan, 2001
19th Jul, 2021 05:49:26 PM
This turned out to be fairly easy to find for myself - I just searched "AV Club Least Essential Albums" and a list of the articles for different years appeared, so I started skimming them until something sounded familiar: It was NekroFusion by Zak Bagans Vs. Praga Khan. this was the sample track I remembered
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The AV Club used to have a yearly list of "least essential" albums, and I believe this was used as an entry on one of these: The album was described as consisting of electronic music using EVP
recordings as samples. There was a embedded youtube video of one track - the music had sort of a dubstep flavor to it, the EVP seemed to be singing a simple melody (possibly aided by autotune), and there were also samples of a person prompting the spirit, asking it what the song should be about. This was probably around the 2000's, and I think I remember the article also saying something about this being a "vanity project" by a reality tv star, possibly someone from a "documentary style" supernatural show like Ghost Hunters and the like, explaining the focus on EVP.
Edited by MikeK