The Black Monolith
GB
Soundtrack For Sunrise, 2005
This track is pretty hard to classify but it falls somewhere between the instrumental hip hop of Rjd2 and (West London) Broken Beat. But who cares, when it’s good music it’s good music. It takes a minute to get going but when he brings in the horn samples (1:11) and starts to stutter the snare hits (1:14) (oh, the snares!) this track really soars. He stacks layer upon layer of percussion, synth organ lines, sound effects, a few vocals snatches, and some bagpipe for good measure. At 3:51 the bagpipe which has been slowly moving from the background to the foreground over the last two or three minutes (and has sounded like a live instrument up until that point), goes into a transformer scratch pattern that makes me curious about the entire creative process of the track.
Make sure you hear this on non-computer speakers to appreciate the interplay of the high and low ends.
[Also, there is an jarring interlude at the end that you may not want to hear repeatedly, or at all. If you are using iTunes, choose “get info,” click on the “options” tab and set the end time as 5:25.]
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