Radiohead
15 Step
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Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m not that big of a Radiohead fan. Burn me at the stake. They’re not a “jam band”, but I’m not into them for the same reasons I don’t listen to Jam music. It just seems to drag on and go out on tangents that last entirely too long. I can only listen to the same 8-bar loop of music for so long until my attention goes elsewhere.
What I do enjoy about Radiohead, is the technicality of some of the edits and mixes they pull off. The “average” listener doesn’t notice the stuff as a guy like me notices. I catch all the hyper-edits, reversed kits, gated kits, compression and EQ tricks, etc. 15 Step is a perfect example of this. Right away you’re greeted with a drum kit compressed to shit (Nine Inch Nails style), which then loses the compressor, gains a telephone EQ, then a live drum kit gets layered on top. It’s this layering of natural and unnatural sounds that makes this a pretty cool track.
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