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Apparently, Morten Friis and Uffe Savery were percussion students at the
Royal Danish Conservatory when they were picked up by Sony's Classical
Music division. The subsequent conversation has to be obvious:
"OK boys, you can do the Marimba treatment on the Bach Chorales and
Flight of the Bumblebee, and you can even put in some of that wacky-worldy
stuff. But how'd you like to do a techno-percussion record, too? You know,
that whole rave-drum-unity thing? You come up with the tune, some
dumbed-down title like, I dunno, The Bongo Song, groove on it on all the
percussion you can find,
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we'll give it the treatment, remix it a million
times so everyone can have their own version, we'll promo it to all the
dance clubs; It'll be beautiful. You'll be stars in two genres at once!
Cool, huh?"
No doubt they are both fine players. Or they must be; their actual
performances are obscured behind layers and layers of edits and effects.
But the performances are moot. This offering is marketing, not music. It's
a waste of time and money; a cynical comment on the endemic catchiness of
percussion and the need by big companies to kill as many birds as possible
at once, to recoup their tech and marketing budgets. Curious about how it
sounds? Here: Bump-tss-Bump-tss-Bump-tss-Bump-tss...
By Kevan Corbett, CanEHdian.com
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