We tried quite a few odd things on Liquid Grooves. We used a large, thin metal sign and bent and kicked it in time with the grooves. The resulting "swoosh" became a signature sound of some of the grooves.
I'm always on the lookout for good sounding ceramic flower-pots -don't take me to a gardening shop if you want to leave quickly! Those pots on LG weren't Udus, but were all originally holding flowers. It's too bad that you have to buy the flowers just to get the pots sometimes....We got the resonant "Bottle" sound by close proximity mic'ing the opening of a Plastic Coke bottle and flicking it.
Sometimes we used open-ear headphones to intentionally "leak" a groove track into a soup pot. The leakage resonates in the water and as you roll the water in the soup pot, the groove turns liquid!
We found a great technique for recording the Korg Wavedrum. If you only use its electronic output, the sound is dull and lifeless. As strange as it sounds, we mic'ed the head of the Wavedrum for the live hand/stick noise and mixed it with the electronic output run through an Innovonics Limiter. The instrument has too much dynamic range otherwise. It's a really powerful instrument when recorded this way.
