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This is arguably x-eleven’s best track. Recorded in 1993 and inspired by the sounds of deep house music, I’ll always be proud of this song. The opening sound is a looped sample from one of Brian Eno’s “Ambient” record series, held in a single long note. A vocal sample from “The Man Who Fell to Earth” marks the transition to the song proper, and the Eno sample begins playing a three-note motif that accelerates over the course of several bars. A $100 Korg Poly-800 generates a deep sub-bass, while an ESQ-1 squiggles about in the low midrange with quantized filter cutoff modulation. A sampled Pro-One takes the foreground in the transitional break section and leads into some sweeping ESQ-1 chords underneath VZ10M arpeggios. The chorus brings all of the elements together atop a thundering TR909/R8 beat, with a vocal lead provided by a sample from the grade-D sci-fi film “Circuitry Man.” The song’s structure repeats twice with some additional elements in the second go-round, finally fading away after a VZ10M does a syncopated vamp on the song’s basic two-chord theme.
Todd's amazing video for this track is also available on the video page.
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