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• portamento – melody sliding between notes
• tremelo vocal effect – like butthole surfers ‘hurdy gurdy man’
• ducking

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. portamento
2. tremelo vocal effect – like butthole surfers ‘hurdy gurdy man’
3. ducking

• spoken samples used as template for song structure
• kik – sounds like basketball bouncing
• great riff – call & response (possibly using delay)
• lyric/vox: first lines are sung solo, then spoken samples double, then the lyrics repeat but spoken only

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. spoken samples used as template for song structure
2. kik – sounds like basketball bouncing
3. great riff – call & response (possibly using delay)

• interestingly, no spoken word samples feature in this track
• elct gtr and elct tones
• slow, 2 chord progression
• soft kik, bass on the 1s
• vox is gentle spoken/sung
• artificial tremelo effect – like Butthole Surfers ‘The Hurdy Gurdy Man’
• also, uses panning and doubling
• stops suddenly

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. artificial tremelo effect – like Butthole Surfers ‘The Hurdy Gurdy Man’
2. stops suddenly

• spoken word samples as basis for lead vox and/or song structure
• melodic yet down tempo, rather than emotively strident
• ‘recitative’ – singing in rhythms of ordinary speech (Sprechgesang)
• sometimes pitches are not emphasised (monotone or sprechstimme )

• spoken word samples as basis for lead vox and/or song structure
• melodic yet down tempo, rather than emotively strident
• ‘recitative’ – singing in rhythms of ordinary speech (Sprechgesang)
• sprechstimme is closer to speech itself in that pitches are not emphasised (monotone)