Goes Well With Soup

Long night...let's get a few tracks in while we're at it.

This first one is a razor-sharp rising and falling minimal bomb from Marc Houle. "Bay Of Figs" swells and backs off for a good minute and a half, the droning synth filling your head before the hi-hat kicks in and the track starts to gather speed and focus. This still a bit abrasive, but it's a lil' zipper of a track, and it almost reminds of how it would sound to fly on a bee: the drone, the tempo, the eventual toms, it all just clicks, and just all sounds...right together.



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This is a track off one of my favorite albums of all-time: Bruce Springsteen's 1975 magnum opus, "Born to Run". It's definitely a ballad, but there's something about this song thats driving, something that gives it unmatched purpose and poise on the album. It's probably the hummable, key piano riff that opens the song and hangs around throughout. That, laid against Max Weinberg's cunningly simplistic drums creates a sound that rolls along with equal ease and flow. Springsteen sounds right at home singing about a girl he wishes would leave him alone, even though she's something quite amazing. A beautiful song that you can just as easily rock out to as you can enjoy on an evening at home with friends and family.



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The final track I offer is a classic Pryda cut from 2004: "Lesson One". This is classic Pryda; you've got his addictive, proggy drums, the catchy, simplistic synth lines, and the barreling bass that thunders along beneath it all. This track in particular, though, has a dreamy, ethereal quality to it, something that makes it float about most other progressive house cuts. The delay and echo on the synth certainly helps, but just the riff itself sounds wonderfully bubbly and spacey. Lesson One: this is how amazing progressive house is done, and just another reason why you don't need any words to create a completely absorbing atmosphere.





That's all for now! Check back soon, and as always keep those ears wide open.
-NL