Voices on 'Tha'

Can anyone tell me what the voices in the background of 'Tha' are saying? I can't make it out!!!

been a while since i've listened to it, but I remember one part where his friends are talking about richy boy playing some game. and then some other guy makes a weird noise, like a car speeding past you or something.

Not sure. I'm guessing at one point Richard was doing a lot of field recording, so he probably had tons of tapes of miscellaneous conversation that he sampled into songs whenever he felt like it. Although in some cases (like the last track of the first disk of SAW II), I think the recordings were actually taken in the studio while he was working on the song in question. Very meta.

I am sure at one pint one of the voices says " I'm from THA" ( or " I've met THA") or ( I'm going to meet Tha")

i don't know what do they say, but you get a similar feeling listening to Smoked Out (Green Blaze Subliminal Sounds) by Madlib

out of all the vocal samples he has, these are the ones i've wanted to know the most

Sounds to me like they were recorded at a train station. I'm pretty sure you can here someone asking whether there are any trains at some point. I always wondered too but if you listen to the remastered SAW 1 you can hear them a bit clearer.

the voices sound rather matter-of-factly to me

  On 3/20/2010 at 11:11 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

yeah there is definitely some train station-like announcement, could be multiple samples though. who knows? adds to the wonderful mystery.

True, I always think it sounds like a group of mates chatting, but there is definitely some conversation about trains at some point :p

This might sound odd but I quite like the fact that I don't know what the voices say. I have never tried to work it out or listen too closely. I like the mystery of it. To me they sound like echoing ghosts.

  On 3/20/2010 at 2:19 PM, beerwolf said:

This might sound odd but I quite like the fact that I don't know what the voices say. I have never tried to work it out or listen too closely. I like the mystery of it. To me they sound like echoing ghosts.

put your heaphones, open a window, and listen to any ambient aphex

i always thought i heard shoes squeaking

they were talking about porn if i remmeber correctly