Archive for the ‘Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution’ Category
- crossfade from previous track
- jangling gtrs
- drums enter softly, buried, and build both in loudness and instrumentation ie. snr enters, then tambourine etc
- chord change when vox enters
- mutli part vox
- 2nd gtr plays high part – sustained, distorted (or jangling?)
- jet engine sound enters
- drums breakdown to toms
- glissando – jet rises
- jangling breaks down and peters out
- toms slow
- all peters out
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- jangling gtrs
- drums enter softly, buried, and build both in loudness and instrumentation ie. snr enters, then tambourine etc
- 3/4 or 6/8
- ‘train’ whistle or organ? on the 2, 3
- vocal breathing gasping persussion
- ride, hi hat random percussion
- distant elc gtr picking
- different vocal styles for different characters, sometimes doubled
- ‘angels’ doubled with pitched down version
- violin enters
- big impact when bass and drums enter, key point in the story ie. character’s pov
- bass keeps beat, drums dance around the beat
- drums and bass drop back to on the 3 / 1 every few bars
- gtr chord – starts jangling as rest fades out – crosses into next track
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- vocal breathing gasping persussion
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- big impact when bass and drums enter, key point in the story ie. character’s pov
- bass keeps beat, drums dance around the beat
- drums and bass drop back to on the 3 / 1 every few bars
- spoken word intro, background laughter
- drums, bass & organ
- bass line: 2nd string
8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0
5 0 3 0 3 0 5 0 3 0 3 0
‘basis’ note between every other note
- gtr plays same riff but offset – they play the same thing at the same time (doubling) for only 2 bars every cycle
- gtr and bass hard panned apart
- horns warble (sax) – verbed and panned
- stabs of horn on the 1s
- vox verbed
- staccato violin, coming and going volume wise
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- bass line: 2nd string
8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0
5 0 3 0 3 0 5 0 3 0 3 0
‘basis’ note between every other note
- gtr plays same riff but offset – they play the same thing at the same time (doubling) for only 2 bars every cycle
- first in a 4 song cycle
- bass and drums (kik, open hat) intro, then organ
- gtr joins, rhythmic – one chord?
- violin enters
- ‘chorus’: violin, gtrs, organ
- female vox for the angels
- multiple ‘voices’
- middle: ‘dream’ minor sounding, backwards gtr texture loop
- ending: multi-vox, call and response, incl whispered fem vox
‘yes i am!’ yes you are!’
- ends with just drums and bass then,
- ends with only bass line
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- middle: ‘dream’ minor sounding, backwards gtr texture loop
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- multiple ‘voices’
- ending: multi-vox, call and response, incl whispered fem vox
‘yes i am!’ yes you are!’
- 3rd fret: Am, Dm, F, Em
- rattling percussion; shakers, hats etc
- breathing percussion
- verbed vox
- bongos, doubled and hard panned
- gtr riff – 2 gtrs hard panned
- bongos and gtr riff provide rhythmic basis – allowing bass and drums to do others things
- no resolution chord at end
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- bongos and gtr riff provide rhythmic basis – allowing bass and drums to do others things
- no resolution chord at end
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