Tuesday 22 April 2008

Reasons to be Cheerful Part 1: The first 41 seconds to Leftfield’s Phat Planet

Yes you do know it. It was used in the legendary Guinness Surfer ad, the one with passages from Moby Dick in the voice-over: ‘I don’t care you who are, here’s to your dreams’

Phat Planet’s intro is the probably the most malevolent bass build-up ever in the history of popular music. Roughly 40 seconds of pulsating, throbbing, deeply ominous bass.

It’s the sound of seven samurai warriors preparing for battle, they’re up against an Emperor’s army of thousands. By the end there’s nothing left of the army.

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