{"id":530,"date":"2011-12-02T14:29:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2011-12-02T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:46:38","slug":"pretty-good-tunes-from-2011-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/pretty-good-tunes-from-2011-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty good tunes from 2011- #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blawan- Getting me Down<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those ever growing number of tunes which are straddling the worlds of dubstep, garage and house, rendering themselves hard to pigeonhole. I&#8217;m not going to try to, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It takes a little while to build up but even in the intro you can&#8217;t help to be hooked by the delightful hollow snare sound on the fourth beat of each bar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What follows is quite simply the best use of vocal slicing and manipulation I&#8217;ve ever heard. Blawan has taken the original Brandy vocal and twisted it into something all his own. The beauty lies in its near coherence; every synapse in your brain is stretching to hear what is being sung- even though it&#8217;s jibberish. He very cleverly leaves the odd word in to further convince the listener they&#8217;re real lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On top of all this it&#8217;s extremely funky to boot- winning!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MBEX3x1ca8s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blawan- Getting me Down &nbsp; This is one of those ever growing number of tunes which are straddling the worlds of dubstep, garage and house, rendering themselves hard to pigeonhole. I&#8217;m not going to try to, to be honest. &nbsp; It takes a little while to build up but even in the intro you can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[112,116,115,113,254,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gbmultimedia.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}