Compare & Contrast - House/Liquid DNB.
House music and Drum & Bass music are two very different sounding genres, but also have a few similarities in terms of the production focus on drums and bass lines. Both genres are a type of electronic dance music, therefore will share a couple of similarities as well as having their very own unique styles and sounds.
The two reference tracks that I will be using as the basis of the analysis in this essay is a house track called “Notorious” By Malaa, and a liquid DNB track “Lost (Pola & Bryson remix) by Hybrid Minds.
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It is usually what gives a song its character and tonality. The harmony in “Lost” is heard as the minor chords of C are played throughout. When compared to “Notorious”, the harmony in this song is relatively simple, as a single soft synth is heard in majority of the track in a major mode and a couple of single note synth hits are played together to create the harmony of Malaa’s track. When thinking about a song’s timbre, we are looking for the elements which differentiate each sound to the other in terms of colour, sound quality and tone. For example how a punchy snare sounds compared to a soft and slow synth pad. In house music, and in “Notorious” in particular, the main elements of the song such as the bass, punchy kick/snare and the vocal, all have a very specific timbre. In majority of house music, the bassline is usually played on single hits, at a low pitch, that create a melody. The bass sounds almost gritty. When comparing it to the timbre of a liquid DNB track, there is a very noticeable difference, as the bass is a lot calmer and quieter, and is not the main element of the
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...lf within the songs infrastructure. In contrast, one of the main distinctions between the two was that modern day rappers utilize more elaborate patterns; whereas the old rappers would just stick fairly simple patterns. By far the most noticeable deviation from the two would be the sudden variations in the lyrics.
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