Monday, December 1, 2008

Chloe Rossetti's dnb mp3, "And the Bubble Soon Burst", begins as a work of sheer drumtastic genius.

Samples (Obama baby!) are creatively used and intertwined with a dirty breakline to create nothing over than the beginnings of a one-track dance party - the song opens with an Obama quote, followed by Chloe's own voice in a British accent (a persona she has nicknamed 'Tina Trashbag' - nice), and then she drops a siick breakline, at around what I think is like 180, 190bpm - out of control!

The middle is...'interesting...there are some great buildups and breakdowns, and an interesting soundbyte on every beat ("1/we do not break 2/[BREAK] 3/our bonds 4/[BREAK]"), a classic trademark of a well-planned out dnb track. There are some problems, however, with some of the volume levels of Chloe's/Tina's vocal samples, as well as the other samples (which Chloe tells me she stole from another, well-known dnb track) - they are not blended well with the rest of the song, giving an undesired messiness and jarring effect.

The song gets super-exciting at the end, unfortunately almost too much so, where there is a large change of pace - a sort of climactic female vocal and padding, almost trancelike, followed by Tina saying "back to work", and then the breakline kicks back in again, althought the break at this point goes out of synch. (This may be an example of where mixing through headphones will sometimes compromise a song when listened through speakers, but I can't be sure...)

The ending is messy - an Obama quote, followed by another dnb sample, but it doesn't quite fit together.

Overall, however, this is a good debut into nasty b rhymes - I'm looking forward to seeing what Chloe does for her final project - word.

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