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 A new tune called "It's So Dark" was finished.
This time it's Drum n' Bass. Also, I'm playing distortion guitar a lot in the live shows lately, so I reflected that in the recording.
"The Dark Knight", a movie I saw last month was so shocking that it made me want to write a song focusing on the dark, sinister side of life and society.
"Drum n' Bass" is a style of dance music which developed mainly in London and Bristol in the 90s, and it's characterized by the use of high-speeded breakbeats (a part of drum beats cut from an existing recording.)
The production technique of this style, which involves slicing of the sampled breakbeats, modifying them, mutating them and putting new life into them, seems to me that it symbolizes the things unique to this era, such as genetic modification or raging HIV virus.
From '95 to '96, I was in London, which was the seismic center of the style, but at that time it was rather difficult to obtain the "breakbeats" in good audio quality. It was something only a handful of creators and others with connection, or so-called "people in the know" could access.
Nowadays, thanks to the development of the Internet environment, you can acquire those breakbeats with relative ease. The beats I used for this new tune was sampled from an Incredible Bongo Band's '76 tune "Apache", and it has been used countless times in dance music.
I guess I should be feeling like I "finally realized my love for Drum n' Bass".
"It's So Dark" (Verse 1)
I step outside for some fresh air
A hungry stray cat groans and glares
Chilly night wind runs through my hair
A homeless man quivers on the stairs
I hear an engine-roar of a speeding car
Harbor lights are twinkling very far
Familiar streets now look so bizarre
It almost makes you forget where you are
(Chorus)
It's so dark, and so stark
Making me so afraid and dismayed
It's so dark, and so stark
Making me so alarmed and disarmed
It's so dim, and so grim
Making me so afraid and dismayed
It's so dark, and so stark
Making me so alarmed and disarmed
(Verse 2)
Visions and thoughts are entwined
Almost like a hallucination of some kind
I'm going into an altered state of mind
With none of my sense left behind
Policeman questions a dreadlock guy
Somehow the whole sight looks wry
And my throat starts turning so dry
Maybe it's because I'm feeling high
(Verse 3)
There's something strangely new I sense
Like a bunch of random views in a sequence
It's quite unusual but not nonsense
And the pressure of it is indeed intense
4:39 PM
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