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Monday, February 8, 2010
Tip I’ll Give You a Break, Pt. 13: Brian Eno’s “The Great Pretender”
Posted by Dave Segal on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:18 PM
[I’ll Give You a Break is a sporadic series of posts highlighting obscure (and not so obscure) breakbeats in unlikely places, so that they may be sampled by producers or just enjoyed for their own geeky purposes. NB: Don’t forget to clear all samples through the proper channels (cough).]
Gonna go against I'll Give You a Break tradition here with a tip that’s not so much a breakbeat but rather a passage with an implied pulse.
Thousands of hiphop producers surely have listened to Brian Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), but how many have thought to sample any of the last 45 seconds of “The Great Pretender,” in which the (synthetic?) crickets—or are they frogs?— finally overtake the spectral dirge proper? By my count, zero—though I'm willing to bet some techno producers have fucked with it.
Well, let me plant that bug in your ear. This would be an incredibly ill backing for somebody to drop macabre verses over—maybe pitch down everything to minus 8 or so to enhance the creepiness. I’m looking at you, Doom.
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