Fred Armisen’s 100 Sound Effects album is an endless treasure
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Elvis chats with actor, comedian, and musician Fred Armisen about his fun new album 100 Sound Effects.
From fake applause to champagne glass breaking, this album is stacked. Elvis and Fred talk about the absurd specificity of each track, which sound was surprisingly hard to capture, the evolution of sound effect albums, and their shared love of drumming.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the Treatment. |
| 0:12.0 | It's the Treatment. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
| 0:14.0 | You can also hear the show at KCRW.com. |
| 0:16.9 | I don't think I've ever communicated with anybody's much about drummers. |
| 0:21.0 | I have my guest, Mr. Fred Armisen. |
| 0:23.5 | We know him as an actor and a comedian and a musician. |
| 0:28.3 | Certainly as a regular national. |
| 0:29.5 | But, I mean, his new project is 100 sounds, |
| 0:32.9 | which is the first sound effects records I've ever heard that made me laugh. |
| 0:36.6 | Because if you've ever heard, it's sound effect records, usually it's just car screeching. |
| 0:40.5 | It's just like that. |
| 0:41.5 | But first of all, thanks much for being here. |
| 0:43.5 | Oh, my pleasure. |
| 0:44.3 | First of all, this drum stuff that's near the very beginning of it, I'm glad that you've had |
| 0:49.0 | that in, but the fake applause was one of my personal favorites. |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, meaning like when you're shooting a scene and then the director will go, |
| 0:58.9 | okay, everyone, come on, you really love this, you know, this is everyone, come on, really, |
| 1:02.2 | you know, that sort of, and you could hear that it sounds kind of fake. |
| 1:09.6 | But also, I guess a person telling people to get out of the club |
| 1:13.7 | for orange wristbands only? |
| 1:15.8 | We've experienced that. |
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