As luck has it, the week seems to be concluding much as it started. Folks, this is the sort of poetry I can only hope for...and still fail to understand. My point being this: junior english can swallow even the most resistive foe. These victims, lost labyrinth of analysis, are never heard from again. But with luck being on our side and all, we live in the internet. More than just an age, the internet is a place; and simplicity is more than a mere option. Simplicity is lifestyle choice.
"Nosso mundo" is partially a success because it manages to accomplish both. This is a song that thrives on a balance between the complex and the simplistic without over compromising either ideal. Much like an earlier DJ Maboku x DJ Firmeza work, the collaboration works on the common ground in these beatmakers' approaches. Percussion. Even the most subtle notes - the addition of a bell, showing off a roll on the hand-drum - are appreciated. Without losing any time Firmeza and Maboku working with a quick tempoed kuduro beat. Listeners, and presumably dancers, are made subject to the rhythm's tides immediately. Though the song proper does not start for fifteen seconds, no secrets are withheld. The skeleton of the track is revealed immediately, and accompanied by the drop, vocal hype starts at just about :36. While percussive elements are both added and embellished as time progresses, the number as a whole owes a bow to the bassline. Aside from the brief moment where the vocal sample escapes into the realm of melody at about :50, it is largely used as a percussive tool; assisting with any accent in sight. The bassline, to contrast, elegantly carves a harmonic role for itself; which is to say, it does more than merely descend in a three note pattern.
But why complicate matters? This is simply a very good song.
- John Noggle
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