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09 ‘The Last Dictator IV’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

  • 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

  1. jangling gtrs
  2. drums enter softly, buried, and build both in loudness and instrumentation ie. snr enters, then tambourine etc

08 ‘The Last Dictator III’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

  • 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

  1. vocal breathing gasping persussion
    • 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

07 ‘The Last Dictator II’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

  • 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

  1. 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
  2. gtr plays same riff but offset – they play the same thing at the same time (doubling) for only 2 bars every cycle

06 ‘The Last Dictator I’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

  • 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

  1. middle: ‘dream’ minor sounding, backwards gtr texture loop
    • multiple ‘voices’
    • ending: multi-vox, call and response, incl whispered fem vox
      ‘yes i am!’ yes you are!’

05 ‘Motherless Child’ – Paradise Discotheque (1990) – Crime and the City Solution

  • 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

  1. bongos and gtr riff provide rhythmic basis – allowing bass and drums to do others things
  2. no resolution chord at end
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