today we are listening to the fat of the
land together and originally this was
going to be a live stream for just my
patrons that are signed up for the album
listening parties but I was thinking
about it I was like man everyone loves
this album like maybe let me just ask
them basically for permission like to
share it with everybody and they said
yes resounding yes but there are
conditions the ixie has to be fed first
I just stuffed my face so we're good the
two cozy background lamps must be
on the scary tiny hand must be out of
frame so not to scare L away this is the
tiny hand crazy lipstick color okay what
about turquoise turquoise the craziest
one I have
H it's
like okay all
right check I'm pretty sure I did buy
this album I'm not positive though cuz I
don't have the booklet anymore and I
kind of kept all my CD booklets but I
definitely remember listening to the
whole thing with my friends uh in high
school the ones that were a bad
influence on me in fact I think that
they were in middle school and I was in
high school they were like a year
younger so I was like in nth grade they
were in eighth grade starting off with
the
single smack of My Bitch Up
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a
Smack My Bitch Up
it still sounds so good you know it's
like very tasteful I feel like the
things that they
did were not gimmicky the reverse
samples at the beginning uh well
actually the all throughout but you know
there's like the sample of a woman and
at one point it goes forward words and
she says like this which I love like
this and I would always sing along to it
cuz it even though it's just speech it
does actually have pitch you know if you
put enough if you put speech in context
musically it will start to sound more
musical to your ear and then it might
actually sound like notes because speech
does have notes but I think maybe they
like revers that sample initially and
and and slowed it down a lot so it's
this sort of like ghostly
wispy but it's just so nicely done none
of it felt cheesy they also definitely
know how to build uh you know and and
keep you on the edge of your seat and
make you anticipate what's coming next
so the whole beginning you know is is
like that right it's like if you've
heard the song before then especially
you're waiting for the drop but in any
case you're waiting for a drop they've
got like this uh sort of
like kind of you know sort of lowii like
there's no base in this sample or they
took the base out which already makes it
feel like it's got to head somewhere
where there is base cuz you know it's
coming there's always base so this is
just very
repetitive exciting
and and even this is processed the same
way right so there's just this big roll
off on the on the low end and also maybe
the high end too right it's kind of
mostly mid so it sounds like you're only
getting part of the picture and you know
you're going to get the full picture
soon soon and then this intro is so
long slowly layering and they also kind
of keep things on like the same note
pretty much right you got sort Baseline
you got the and they're just sort of
layering this one note which also
interestingly enough I think builds
anticipation cuz you're it's so
monotonous that you're like it's got to
change and finally the drum beat just
kind of comes out of nowhere and then
you feel the full impact and then but
then you're still waiting for smack my
bitch up right even if you haven't heard
it before you're probably expecting to
hear that I I mean I would
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right but even that's processed doesn't
it sound like it's sort of slowed down
like it's sort of artifacted I thought
that was really interesting I'm not sure
I noticed that before they do this thing
that I really like and maybe we'll see
it in some of the other songs too but
you know how there was that
sound which I love not sure what that
is but sometimes they
go and they give you two so it's like
you feel like you're being like whipped
like
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twice so I kind of want to just like
just forgive me but I kind of want to
figure out this melody because uh it
sounds like a very exotic scale and I
just have to
know okay B
flat wow smack my B flat up it's there's
there's I know this notes there this
would be like our first scale degree our
second one which is flat it's it's lower
than usual so it's got that kind of
exotic
sound and then the other note might be
that
one let's just make
sure no see it's this
one wow okay I just want to make
sure that's even more like dark and
creepy sounding right it's so aggressive
and it's so aggressive cuz
it's uh just sort of surrounding the
main note on either side by just a half
step and it's very chromatic sounding
which is sort of
disorienting
wow right and then it does and then
there's a call and
response wow
wow um and then this bridge is beautiful
I always love this bridge and uh when I
first heard this song I remember
thinking wow they did such a good job
with uh how they looped her
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voice all
right so we don't have all the notes to
to say exactly what scale it is but it's
sort of starting to paint the picture of
frian
or frian uh dominant which just have one
small difference so
either
or singing here it's so
beautiful it just added this whole
mystery to the song right and it's cool
the way the music sort of makes all the
space for her
right oh we got to talk about this
W yeah I'm not sure what making that but
um it's it's a it's a one of those
really Stark raw uh strong harmonies
Like A fifth or a
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fourth I think it's that
one and it's got the syncopated Rhythm
to it
right love that and
then and then this
always reminded me of like a machine
sort of like powering
down oh and there's also um what's that
instrument called it's not a harmonium
it's one of those drone drone machines I
feel like when I listen to The Prodigy a
lot of it's like ooh I love that little
detailer o that little part right there
you know just like that one time they
throw that one sample in okay next is
breathe and um I don't know this one
might be my my favorite from the from
the record
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come bre man
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bre
thepress play my game
test psychosomatic
at
pressure psycho
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inhale inhale go VI
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inh inhale
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VI
Masterpiece so good I had to take notes
this time CU I was like there are so
many parts of this song I'm going to
want to talk about that I'm going to
forget them okay so first the drums kill
in this song um I could be wrong about
this but when I was producing electronic
music when I was like a like in this
time frame sort of like late 90s early
2000s I came across UK garage for a
brief moment and like tried my hand
doing a little bit of it and I think
this
groove at least is partly inspired or
has a UK garage group there's probably
multiple layers or something but the
and the the offbeat high hats so the
offbeat high hats you know
T which go throughout the whole thing if
you're not sure what I'm talking about
just
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listen the sound of that high hat is
like that trance high hat but it was
also in UK garage it's probably like a
Roland 909 high hat or something anyway
um but it's also this one has it's it's
it's got it swings
basically the the drum fill is so it
like it's so iconic like when that I
mean I love the beginning is so exciting
but when that
first comes in it's
like what's making
this it's got a lot of crackle on it
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M oh this is also kind of uh got that
raised seventh
the
sound just like uh Smack My Bitch Up
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had I love how C goes though you know
which I can't really do very well with
the piano and kind
of just the way it
talks so this
is also a kind of dark sounding Melody
like the one in Smack My Bitch Up and
this is a part of a probably like
harmonic minor scale that's what I would
say
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were they thinking about it that way
probably not so that's giving this
definitely a a harsh flavor I would say
and I also love the low rumbly bass note
right it's interesting it's really
undefined it's just sort of this
like can really hear it there was one
part where it was just sort of those
here it's really interesting it
definitely sounds like Machinery to me I
don't know if that's what it is but it
just uh feels dangerous right then the
horn sample so the so instead of like a
they do have a couple little risers
maybe like reverse symbols but also
those are used very Tastefully they can
be overused but they did a really nice
job I thought but they uh they kind of
tend to use this
horn sample as the connective tissue
between their phrases and so it it
crescendos and gets bigger and grows and
that's what leads you into the the next
phrase there's that reverse symbol
actually there's reverse symbols
throughout the whole groove right right
right got
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this
right that's a great and that is such a
great choice for a song called breathe
right cuz you really get the like EB and
flow the in- andout with the symbol
crashes and then the reverse right it's
so breath-like
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so there was the horn right so it's cuts
off right when he says breathe with me
but that is what he's saying right I can
be really bad with lyrics so
actually this song is like slightly Out
Of Tune with normal tuning it's a little
little little bit
lower so this is a little sharp but
that's the chord I
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think but it kind of it has a little bit
of that dip in in uh
pitch uh it could have been part of the
sample or something they could have done
to it but I love that feeling like
something's like approaching you from
behind and then it kind of sh like
whizzes past you and then the swords I
think when I was younger I thought they
were whips because they just they have
like a whip-like motion to them but I
know now they're they're sword samples
from some movie and I thought that was
pretty ingenious I mean you know
nowadays everyone's making drum grooves
with found sounds so to speak or or you
know sort of
substituting uh everyday sounds for part
parts of a drum kit but this one is just
particularly amazing I think and maybe
it was also you know a newer thing back
then
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but yeah so either way even if you
thought it was a whip like me or or you
knew it with swords it's still it's so
kinetic right it's like you really I
mean it's hard for me to listen to the
song without going
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really engages you uh on so many levels
rhythmically it's really
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fun so syncopated if you don't know what
that means it means stressing Off beats
which are not the main
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beats oh yeah that's the other fill hang
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on right
there there's a couple fills that one
has a little bit more of a bunch of
something stroke rolls in it instead of
the G right which is so syncopated I
love that I know I already talked a
little bit about it but we have to go
back to the the the like main drum
Phill like what the heck how did I
notate I don't even
know so many offbeats it's like 16th
notes offbeats or something
yeah that's syncopation makes everything
sound more human so maybe that's part of
why their
music even though
it's an electronic album has so much
life to
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it it's such a great
accent that one's on the
beat and
then also so s ated yeah there's like a
I don't know there's like almost like a
soul and like Funk then there's the waka
waka I wrote which is
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the
W I love the
W and that's always answered by
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that's a really nice call and response
another call and response maybe that's
maybe that's one of the things that
keeps their music so Dynamic and there's
also some panning but it's not like
amateurish hard panning uh it's just
sort of you know giving you Dimension
right and I love that there's
like the these these little details are
the elements that keep us engaged
because the Basse doesn't
change right and the Baseline doesn't
change except well chorus right but it's
like these are our little Melodies
essentially this is what we're we're
holding on to that we're getting excited
about all right so now let's look at the
chus right okay so we actually have
vocals here and some kind of I would say
it's harmonic movement um it's chromatic
descending line okay
so so I think
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it's comp
play my
game don't play my
game ending on like this minor
third
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psycha now while that goes so there's
also a call and response between this
and a guitar I think it's a guitar that
goes so it chromatically goes
up my
game
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listen so they're always linked up I
love this I love this call and response
they've got going on for for
everything uh and also just like
compositionally that's nice because
you've got a descending chromatic line
and an ascending so there's a contrary
motion these are the things they teach
you they teach you in music class
whatever's doing this walk down
is it's distorted it's fiery right it's
just it's kind of in your face
it's just sort of a constant pushing
against
your
right and then the lyrics of course I
had to look them up cuz when I was
growing up I really was like I don't
know what he's saying at the end there I
was like
adane but it's addict insane right but
he does sound like he's saying inale at
the end inale inale and I'm like what's
in
sale and come play my game right play my
game it's almost like that vocalist
there he's mimicking the tone of the the
synth or sample that's descending
right my game it's really really
interesting and then you got kind of the
rap
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right I don't know what he's saying
there but I love that
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okay then there these like there's like
these little there's a little bridge and
a big bridge little Bridges here it is
okay so this is what an acoustic what is
this I guess I always imagined it was an
acoustic guitar but it sounds weird is
it like a 12 string guitar and then it's
been processed a
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lot so good okay so we got the yeah
oof yeah it's right in between D and E
flat and I can't decide which one I
should
play I'll play D for this sample CU it's
more in line with that
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one so
ominous same scale though so it's still
harmonic minor and then there's a little
sort of part to this one as well which
is something that
goes and I don't know what it
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is what is that is like that a voice or
I have no idea but I always sing along
to it anyway and that one
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is oh okay
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this is what I would do if I try to make
a cover of this I don't think that would
work out very well though and then
there's the main bridge where there's
this huge breakdown
right at talk about like percolating the
energy there is like you it's
it okay then
we got another one of those uh so this
is another like drum Groove that's been
the lowend and probably the high end's
been rolled off so it just sounds like
it's missing something and you know that
it's going to be completed at some point
that's just how it works in my brain
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and see it goes from one harmonic to the
other and
then and then it kind of just goes out
of the scale and it just has this
sort of wide-eyed kind of crazy sound
something's totally
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off I love the Echo and then so this
this builds build and builds right and
then we get this great
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feel oh did you hear the right on the
Down Beat there that was
nice you know it's coming right
it's just so freaking great yeah I think
this is like a perfect song it's just it
just kills next track is diesel
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power Clow your my drastically
fantastically
close your mind drastically
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fantastically close your mind
drastically
fantastically fantastic really don't
think I've heard that one very many
times this one is way slower than the
others right so it's just got a very
groovy Groove uh but it is it's just
groovy you know you just kind of like
sit back into it and I I really like
there's this one ACC at the end of the
drum
grp it's like a higher kind of clinky
sound I really like and but this one is
different in that it's like you know the
production is is supporting the rap
right so it it's and you could tell like
it's just composed very differently
right there weren't any Dynamics in the
music uh it was pretty much just a
straight line from beginning to end this
would be a good thing to listen to when
you're probably too slow to run to but I
don't know walking I don't know doing
something you know it like kind of keeps
you in motion those Rhymes were really
cool uh I loved hearing astrology rhymed
with Prodigy and what close your mind
drastically fantastically oh you know
what else okay this also reminded me of
The Chemical Brothers which I listened
to a lot uh around the same time or
maybe yeah maybe like the next year I
got into The Chemical
Brothers and there was something about
this that reminded me of them and I was
like why exactly I'm still not sure but
it was like this one was simpler and the
Chemical Brothers can get into this very
like hypnotic
repetitive very one note kind of uh
pattern might have also been the tempo
right maybe The Chemical Brothers was
just a little slower it's incredible how
much Tempo effects I mean there's
there's genres of music that are
specifically between a certain Tempo
range sweet all right let's check out
check out funky shit oh my God that's
the funky
shit oh yeah
okay oh my God this sounds like
psychedelic
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trans slower
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right my God the
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shit
heyy
hey hey
he
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uh somebody wrote time for another one
of those block rocking beats that was
really funny cuz yes it did feel like it
could break into that any moment I was
going to say this song and before the
end when it actually were Sirens I was
like I feel like a lot of The Prodigy
Music is like warning warning like lots
of sounds that elicit that feeling of
like danger coming danger coming look
look out look out you know uh not just
with the lower rumbles which also signal
danger but like with siren like sounds
it'd be interesting to learn more about
the psychology of sirens right like why
do those
sounds uh just like primally make us
think danger is coming you know I also
found like with this one it's like I was
always waiting for the payoff and
there's often a payoff sample I feel
like in these for
breathe I think it's the drum fill
and with Smack My Bitch Up
it's probably him just saying Smack My
Bitch Up maybe I don't know uh with
funky shit it's the sample which someone
confirmed is from the Beasty Boys so
when it didn't happen at the end of the
phrase I'd be like oh man I was always
waiting for that uh there was one noise
in here I I found kind of irritating it
was
the it was fine when it was spaced out
but then when they double timed it I was
like oh my God but they probably knew
that right I mean all right let's check
out serial Thriller
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the drums are so much more minimal right
just uh
more rock punk I guess kind of
drums I mean the the accent patterns
were very similar to a lot of the other
beats but it's just there wasn't a lot
of complication around it right not a
lot of rhythmic complexity around it
just sort of the main like
just and there's like kind of two drum
two sorry two snare sounds which I
always really like cuz usually you know
you get like different colors in the
toms and lots of different colors in
your symbols but you'll have like one
snare and you can do a lot with one
snare just by how you you know how hard
you hit it and of course wear if you do
cross stick all sorts of stuff but but
there's something really cool that
happens when you have like another snare
that's just got like a different pitch
or different tamber completely so they
got
F right it's just really nice interplay
there yeah there was that one thing that
was kind of gated rhythmically I I
thought that was a really neat sound I
love that but yes so far yeah like
except for breathe which has that kind
of movement that like chromatic movement
in the
chorus uh the rest of the tracks have
like this very stable Baseline that's
more of a d you know it's not a drone
technically right CU it's rhythmically
and dynamic and everything but you
you're sort of you're kind of stuck I
guess in this one spot and the interest
comes from everything else above it so
it's very it's very grounding sounding
music you know what I mean next is uh
minefields which I know and love
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this is
dangerous open up your head f the show
shot this is
dangerous I walk through my fields and
watch your head Ro
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this is
dangerous open up your head through the
show shock
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this is
shot what a
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shot I walk through M Fields
yeah
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shot shot
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the song really just all the elements
just came together it's just it just
works so well so the first Melody which
is played by you know it's sort of like
a dinky kind
of it's
like okay sorry even before that comes
in sorry so the very cinematic elements
right in this uh chorus section sounds
like
Tony right those big big drums and
orchestras they're tonal but they're
very very very low
and then we've
got I mean this totally sounds like the
Matrix uh
this metallic hit as well right on the
drums and then the string sample that
comes in is also very cinematic and then
you've got
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this that sounds like yeah Army marching
oh and those those kind of symbol washes
so sound like orchestral symbols this
okay oh it's in between
again
okay it's closer to F so it's a little
bit little bit flat of f so this chord
has a lot of to me it has tension in it
um and it's got a seventh
so that's it
again sorry it's a little
tune maybe it's even up
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here so this is a suspenseful sounding
chord to me because it's not it doesn't
sound like it in of itself is a very
stable chord it's got some movement to
it like there's notes in it that want to
maybe move somewhere right in a
crescendos then we get
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sorry beautiful like really really
beautiful
Melody uh it's beauty isn't quite like
expressed I guess I would say by that
synth right which has
sort of this almost like wooden sound
like right it's not a very expressive
sound it has a a pattern within it that
makes it sort of uh
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memorable and this is in the minor
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scale but later we're going to get
something that changes it from minor to
a related skill or Mode called Dorian
sounds like
this is much more uh magical it's got
like this one ray of light in in the
scale it's not as
heavy
see so that's going to bring I think a
little bit of uh mystery to the song one
of my favorite things about this song is
the basine the one that goes
very very talkative I don't know how
they program this thing but it is so
freaking great because it basically has
a call and response relationship with
the but it's still going when this
melody happens it's just that when this
melody stops the Baseline rushes forward
and starts talking really loudly and
then it like recedes so there's this
like
and then it's just very in your face and
it's so cool there's even like a stutter
I
think at one point it's just it's it
sounds like it wasn't made by anything
artificial it's so like funky and
talkative and human sounding so however
they did that they just killed it got
your tonal Center and you go down to
this edgy flat 7
all right so this drum beat I'm a fan of
this drum beat cuz it feels to me like
it's lulling me into a false sense of
security cuz some of the other songs
like the energy level is kind of more
around here not like breathe or smack a
bitch up or Fire Starter which are like
maxing out at 11 so this kind of makes
you feel like the song might be kind of
just like cool and sort of in the
mid-range
like it's kind of it's kind of got a
cool okay now
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all right this chorus is incredible and
I love the Riser they use to get into it
which is sounds like an electric guitar
with
feedback kind of this dissonant tone
that just sort of comes in again like
sort of like uh-oh like you thought you
were safe you
know and then this W is so great highly
accented by both kind of the bass the
Harmony and the drums right Co so this
is on the beat four two three 4 one yeah
so this is like a it's like a really
spread out
pickup and harmonically it's kind of
doing the same
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thing this note is kind of leading you
back
here this is the fourth
okay then this drum Groove just kills me
it's so great it's got this amazing
Cadence to it
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like and it's incredibly fuzzy and
muddled and deep right like it's it's
hard to hear all the details and I I
love that about it it's just you just
feel it and that base is so nice that
base actually reminds me also a little
bit of UK garage baselines just the tone
of it but This Groove has kind of two
main accents uh you got the kick right
then you
got and this so the first one's very
syncopated right no that's two sorry
it's just two one two it's that one so
the last one is
anticipating uh Beat 4 so it's early so
to speak which is exciting interesting
groovy and gives all this space behind
it before the drum beat starts over so
you got
and you feel this like suspended feeling
and they totally take advantage of that
by not filling that space in with much
of anything and the vocals he
goes oh not
always or P I don't
know yeah the bass okay so that's
another reason the Bas there's no note
there's no bass note there either so
it's just
a m
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so this is
us up the head
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forgot to mention there might be a
latency between the music and my piano
so sorry I am playing in time it's just
might not sound like that to you which
is not very helpful to
you that's very
s it's just so great and that's the
Dorian sound I was talking about if I
put this up
here this this note's not minor
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and there's this like tight relationship
between this note and this one so I just
love that those are the kind of the main
base
notes it's so great and then minor okay
and then there's just a million super
cool Melodies going on right we got
uh and
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then maybe
that it's just that at first right
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then later it gets like it's second half
comes
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in that and that's an interesting sound
that sticks out because it's a different
scale it's uh lyan dominant so it's just
got this uh very curious sound this is
this is like used a lot in film scores
this is what the Simpsons uh theme songs
written in and a lot of Danny Elfman
stuff also so just got this
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like also similarly to some of the other
sounds very talkative right
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W it's so cool
this I don't know what it is it's a
sample right it's kind of cascading
upwards
and in fifths I
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think okay then you got this like bridge
and it's like the first time it's really
short second time they really prolong it
and then it practically ends the song um
but
they go to B flat which is the fourth
and stay there so if you ever felt like
you got like stuck somewhere during the
song and then at the very end it
goes and you're like oh that's the end
like relief it's because you're no
longer on our home base it's like you've
left
home but you haven't changed key you're
just sort of like avoiding relief and
they just keep you there for a while um
and you got this
which is a poly Rhythm which one is
it four against three whatever it is is
like it's got It's got some resonance on
it so it's got like Harmony built
in you got
the and
the that's kind of how sounds to
me and then you get the Wow when you go
back to
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F Love This Groove
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too this is that is that the
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kick yeah it is and then it goes to like
triple triplets or something
uh and I love listen to him go p and
it's got this I guess uh dotted e delay
on it or something it goes
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P oh this right okay this is the last
Melody and then we'll move
on it's almost like a trans Rhythm it's
on the
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off it's really cipated
talks to
you it's got a filter on it love
that fucking great now on to niion I
love this
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one I feeling another
energy I feel the power
gr I feel another
energy I be the
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power I the power
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om
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oh I stopped that just in
time we're not quite ready to start the
fire yet track it's got three main
sections I actually kind of forgot about
the last section until it happened I was
like oh
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yeah also to
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okay okay so what's
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this hey we just heard
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that that's the magical Dorian scale
there's a note in there that's a little
higher than we're used to hearing so it
just just kind of opens it all up that
and there's a big
trone ah
yeah very prominent sounding interval
that's very tense and and strongly
flavored I should say got a very
cyclical sound to
right like the end is the beginning is
the end is the beginning right it's also
got a chord progression a lot of the
time
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goes so it kind of goes between like a
major sound and then a minor
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sound and also on the base we've got
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um then it goes up to a flat so
like it's falling down
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everyone
is it's almost slightly
bluesy falling down on
everyone and then it's an implied a flat
chord see that feel that lift we left we
left we're in orbit now let me come back
to home to
Earth and then there's also the
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I feel another
energy okay so we get this other Melody
it goes
see that lydian sound
again you feel another
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energy freaking love
that feel power grow
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so yeah it kind of sounds like a almost
like a blues melody it's falling down on
everyone I love that
jump back down you know the time has
come I also love it when he goes um
sorry I feel it burn like they cleared
his vocals up so much right there feel
it burn and there's a lot of very
tasteful I think pingpong delay on his
off coming off his voice and Reverb and
I've noticed it's like it's like none of
this is overly saturated with Reverb or
delay it's just the right amount I think
like even by modern standards I feel
like music has gotten
drier like you know it was really wet in
the ' 80s and it's like slowly dried
up you feel another energy
I feel my power grow and this high note
I it's like this is such a small detail
but he's kind of singing in between a
minor and major third and I love that
because there's um this this note is
being played in the base that's the
minor
one but there's also
the major one being played by
the so there's like kind of both sounds
at once and he is like right in between
them so it doesn't sound right to go
feel my power
grow and then just like stay on the
minor also doesn't sound right to go in
my power
grow it's right in between power
grow the neutral third I learned it's
called okay let's talk about the groove
because this is a great Groove um I
particularly love the fill which I think
they chopped up so yeah
I also just love the effect on his voice
is that ring modulation like he's kind
of under a bunch of bubbles I I just
thought that s and also maybe a chorus
or something so he just sounds like a
little little Beyond human which just
feels right the way he's what he's
singing about you know something that
like transcends Humanity in a way uh and
then really nice lowend on this one it's
got a drone
there's there there because there's both
that but then also listen to you can
hear it being filtered there's a drone
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going she just very like psychedelic
trans Goa then the second half
is which brings back that Fran sound
that we heard in Smack My Bitch Up and
in
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breathe
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that but there's also like a Harmony I
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think am I making that up I might
be okay not quite so it's it is a
Harmony but it's just lower and it
doesn't move
just this feels very like uh ancient lot
of wisdom to the sound again that kind
of drone from another from an older
land and I think they're even just going
om and that's like if you've ever done
yoga or any like of this kind of
chanting or Kon you'll chant M and
sometimes everyone just does the same
note but if there's Harmony it's
this you
go and it just sounds like the
birthplace of humanity like that
interval and then I love what they did
with the vocal from the from the uh
chorus you know you feel it I and I feel
it stretching that out and Rec kind of
contextualizing it and I think they
bring back the melody the
uh over this which I thought was a
really nice choice to really connect the
two and the last section I would just
say is like a freaking cool drum
solo uh with some really interesting
filtering and delays there was like a
delay on it uh and Distortion and risers
that were very creative sounding like
voices
um and a laser sound at the end just cuz
you have to have a laser I guess all
right ready for fir starter
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I'm the trouble starter H
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Gat I'm the fear addicted Illustrated
hey hey hey I'm a fire starter Twisted
Fire
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Starter he hey you're the fire starter
Twisted Fire
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Starter I'm a fire starter ttic fire
starter
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okay I'm wondering uh if either of them
are or were drummers cuz the way that
they're processing these clips or these
samples is just they just have such an
incredible feel I think for rhythm like
the the way they're the way they're
splicing and dicing and using dynamic
and articulating things and accenting
things the sample that I think I wait
for for this one in this one is hey hey
hey like that's the payoff for me is the
hey hey heyes this one's pretty
fast but there's an incredibly strong
emphasis on the downbeat only
like boom right every time there's just
this big
boom so it starts to feel like you're
being assaulted kind of right right
these bombs are dropping on every single
downbeat but you know this has that sort
of
like kind of like chaos feeling at the
top FP okay
so now this is sort of an ambiguous line
but it starts out sounding very
musical
major and then it has this sort of yeah
like
flippant kind of like kind of ending
almost feels like it changes to like
minor halfway through but these are just
the the thoughts I have there's some
other parts in the song that feel that
way as well and there's some other songs
they have that feel that way there's
this
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noise just just constantly there kind of
like annoying siren kind
of so the whole time he's rapping it's
there Baseline does feel like it moves a
little bit but it's sort of more like a
like the way Funk baselines would
like I don't know it's not clear exactly
the notes to me without spending more
time with it but it's starting and
ending on the main notes it's
like or maybe it's doesn't start on
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it I guess the boom there's no Basse on
the boom which is smart right cuz they
would have been competing in the same
range then
this then it goes down to
I'm the fire starter Twisted fire
starter and it goes back
up this is a legit chord progression F
minor E major so that's exciting just
like you know feeling of the ground
shifting beneath you a little bit
there yet the base stays where it is so
I love
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that fire Twisted fire but there's
almost um I mean it almost sounds like a
synth guitar it's probably not right
it's probably just a sample but it
sounds a little bit
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like it's really buried
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though love this part see that's why I
was like oh that must have been drummers
because the way the the way the Dynamics
the way they ramp the Dynamics up and
down
here like on the they like you know make
it louder it's
like yeah so that's on the
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FP oh and then his vocal okay so his
vocal is really fun but one of the
things I really appreciate about it is
the reverse
effects they have
so often before he says I'm especially
it's like they reverse the eye so it's
like I'm the fire star and it just it
makes him feel like he is like made of
fire like gas or something you know he's
he's like he's just he's there in one
minute then he's gone and then he's
like and then this bridge is Beautiful
cuz you get to hear this sort of of
sparkly bubbly cascading uh
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lead some somewhere in
there it just brings a little bit like
more of a serious tone to everything um
and then this is
clipping so you guys were saying this
wasn't compressed or anything and I was
like this is it's amazing that we
haven't heard clipping yet right but
this is this is the sound right
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here but it sounds cool okay we're
moving on to climatize
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a
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he
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a
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that's that's the sound of drums slowed
down like that is so nostalgic to me I'm
trying to figure out I think it's cuz uh
I mean maybe it was just something that
was happening a lot in music but I don't
think I think it's more that a when I
was um do you guys remember that program
acid Pro by Sonic
Foundry it was like mostly I think loop
loop based Arrangement software I don't
know anyway I had it for a little while
when I was learning like electronic
production and I would like slow down
some drum grooves you know to fit my BPM
and they would sound like kind of like
that different kind of feeling to this
one this one's like this one's like easy
this one's not trying to kill you it's
not trying to I think alarm you it feels
pretty good you know uh it doesn't have
that edge that the other ones have and
it's very much centered around this
Baseline and it's very like harmonically
rich and beautiful and it even has a
Tambo which I think always takes the
edge off very driving you know there's
even like some almost like wood blocky
samples
to also F that's their favorite
key okay so we
got oh
wait I love that
B okay
so my
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bad all right this is the nostalgic
chord this is in 90% of radio head
songs
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so it goes down to
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so F major B flat minor which is the
four chord nostalgic when it's
minor then it goes down to Flat six G uh
let's do that's d flat yeah d flat major
E flat major and back and then
back so it's really beautiful clear
chord progression and then there's a
little um a little arpegio too
underneath it uh that
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goes
so it does clash with that first chord
but they don't care which is
cool then it goes down
to it's it's really pretty
I'm
back nice rich right pads it's not just
up here right it's all down here
too okay did someone say this was
sampled from The Who cuz that's exactly
what it sounds like we won't get fooled
again what's that sound
called but just really
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distorted also F major
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I can really see where the where the uh
Chemical Brothers got got this from it
sounds so much like something from
uh all right this
Baseline I think this Baseline goes from
minor to Major also
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really rhythmically
fun so if you want to know how to play
this a
flat just go up a half step then it
turns major E flat F E flat F
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I love
this on top just kind of saws the edge
off of this major
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sound risers melodic
risers or tonal risers
say nice variation on that
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Baseline nice that's implying very
different kind of Harmony like this is
minor this is
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Major that puts a lot of emphasis on
this chord
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what's that remind me what is that what
is
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[Applause]
that uh L
Zeppelin all right let's talk about
this so this is bringing in that frian
sound again on top of it
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all and what is that cuz it I was
thinking at first I was like oh it
sounds like a saxophone and then I was
like it could
and it doesn't sound like it was
actually played it's a sample being
triggered because the sample
goes and then it kind of like has this
weird little
relief all right okay it does sound sort
of like a soprano saxophone or something
but then I was like maybe it's a suy
horn and uh my my I think my my biggest
exposure the suy horn this is kind of
Niche but if you get it you'll be really
excited With Me avatar the Last air
bender uh it was a really well done
animated
series and the uncle or is it Zuko or
iro theme I forget is the sunky horn
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like like it just doesn't quite sound
like a sax but I'm curious I'm going to
see if you guys know sample of an
Egyptian horn okay last is Feel My Fire
which is a
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cover I got a word to say than that I
like to say
oh the right that I the that I feel
toight
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man I actually don't know if I've heard
okay I must have not owned this album
then cuz if I owned it I would have
surely listened to everything at least
once I don't remember that one at all so
that's a cover and I don't know the
original song although actually I would
like to listen to it cuz I feel like the
song is really cool I'm not sold on the
production on this one but I think it's
cool that they kind of like you know did
did the song in their style and I think
it's like interesting I'm so glad you
all could make it it was really fun to
get to do this with with kind of
everybody and thank you to my patrons
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