The Anthem Challenge originate from my Jemtunes blog and was inspired by a fellow blogger from Jersey. It's all about posting 10 tracks from 10 albums over 10 days (or so) that mean something to you with a few words about each and why.
Anthem #8: Underworld - Beautiful burnout
Back in the day - up until just four years ago when for health reasons I had to jack it all in - I played bottom surdo in a Sussex based samba band called 'Beach Bateria'. A surdo is a big deep-sounding drum used to keep the bass rhythm of the bateria going. Mine was really big - 24 inches!
For several years I sourced the music, tunes and sound bites that inspired the pieces we wrote, rehearsed and performed for carnivals, fayres and processions across Southern England.
One of these was the kick-line from Underworld's 'Beautiful Burnout'. At about 5'10" into the track the drum-line kicks in big-time with a time signature that messes with your head so much that we just had to sample and use it. It took maybe six months to master but became one of our most successful signature pieces for static gigs.
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