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Umm… this is supposed to be somewhat of a trip-hop piece - mostly recycled from Lamb, Massive Attack, Coldplay and random heartbeat samples off the internet.It’s long because it’s technically two pieces that flow from one another (note: you should have the bass pretty loud to get the full effect of the heart beating in your own chest), the first is mellow, funerary in a way… Coldplay’s “Clocks” isn’t fully formed until the heart stops beating, as if only propelled into fully formed existence as an ode to the broken heart. Lamb’s vocals from “What Sound” appear in strange order, celebrating love and lamenting it at the same time. The heartbeat creates a rhythm until it starts beating faster and faster and then with a few last beats breaks. Inbetween the notes of Coldplay there are happier tones of a Thor Synthesizer promising something to come… At the apogee of the finally fully-formed ode, a boom takes over and the ode - repeating itself - is silenced gradually. The breakbeat recycled from Massive Attack’s “Teardrop” is again a heartbeat, but now healty and with a warmer sound, gradually building towards the final admonition (which isn’t there because accidentally I recycled too much, but because the message seems to be a fit ending to the piece). All the while, we hear gentle and ethereal words (what else do you expect from a combination between a Reverb and a Compressor? :D) wondering about the sound she hears (implied is that it’s all about the heartbeat). A few scratches sneaked in from Lamb’s “Scratch Bass”, to add a little more color to the second part of the song.

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