Club dance music. New York – hip-hop/dance music scene. Influenced by Dub, Chicago house,. Scratching, Garage. From his 1999 album - Play
Changed by the amount of instruments playing
Call and response (question and answer)
A minor and C major
Harmonises the vocal phrases one in a major key and the other in a minor key
Vocal phrases are in Aminor
Repeated chord progressions
Use of sus 4 and sus2 chords
Only 6 chords used
Based around two vocal samples taken from a gospel choir.
Use of countermelody.
Piano
Male vocal and female vocal
Vocal samples, drum loop, synth pad
Percussion – shaker, snare drum, bass drum
Vocal samples
Echoes, traffic noises are heard in the background
Drum loop
Technological effects:
Echo on the vocal sample
EQ effect applied
Use of delay
reverb
Panning in the stereo field
98 BPM
4/4
Syncopated rhythms
Repeated rhythms
Sampled hip hop break beats
Simple structure based around two chord sequences
The chord sequences are arranged in 8 bar blocks