The beginning is key as it sets the pace & mood. There's a pitched reverberated timpani leading to a reverse cymbal:crash cymbal. I love the way it bounces. "Groove" this is called or "swing". So few tracks do this human element now due to quantization to a square frame. The beat is curiously EQ'd a la Portishead - cutting outing more frequencies than it is allowing through the HPF, giving it a crisp sound using a jingle bells. Giving it a metallic lick. The bass only appears on every other beat per bar, & is portamento'd down. Giving it a very Hip Hop vibe. The vox/choir 5ths (triad excluding the middle note) re-enforce the initial modulated lower octave sine waves that it starts off with. The complex saw tooth stabs from Goldeneye 64 make a return to add punch, as well clotted sfx panned to give it wide space. The beat is further punctuated by a simple dance kit with a hit hat open hat pre-emphasis & well as two bass kicks which interlock. There's a lot going on to build this sound, yet there's very little melody apart from the stabs in full swing of the track. Very clever. Who ever sculpted this knew music production very well, especially considering the 8 track limitations of the N64 hardware at the time. Tim Follin would be proud of this one!
The beginning is key as it sets the pace & mood. There's a pitched reverberated timpani leading to a reverse cymbal:crash cymbal. I love the way it bounces. "Groove" this is called or "swing". So few tracks do this human element now due to quantization to a square frame. The beat is curiously EQ'd a la Portishead - cutting outing more frequencies than it is allowing through the HPF, giving it a crisp sound using a jingle bells. Giving it a metallic lick. The bass only appears on every other beat per bar, & is portamento'd down. Giving it a very Hip Hop vibe.
The vox/choir 5ths (triad excluding the middle note) re-enforce the initial modulated lower octave sine waves that it starts off with. The complex saw tooth stabs from Goldeneye 64 make a return to add punch, as well clotted sfx panned to give it wide space.
The beat is further punctuated by a simple dance kit with a hit hat open hat pre-emphasis & well as two bass kicks which interlock. There's a lot going on to build this sound, yet there's very little melody apart from the stabs in full swing of the track.
Very clever. Who ever sculpted this knew music production very well, especially considering the 8 track limitations of the N64 hardware at the time. Tim Follin would be proud of this one!
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This shit slaps for real. I wanna spit over this. 😩