List | G | The Grid | 'Swamp Thing' CDM 1994


Track: Name: Time:
1. Swamp Thing Radio Mix 3:59
2. Swamp Thing Grid Southern Comfort Mix 7:13
3. Swamp Thing Deep Dub Piece 7:11
4. Swamp Thing Deep Piece Mix 8:54
  Total 27:17


Comments:
This was a huge hit in '94, getting a lot of attention for mixing in banjoes with techno. The banjo was played in a fairly large number of sequences of a few bars each and then sampled, and the samples were trigged from a sequencer to the bouncy techno backing music. In other words, it's a purely mechanical performance, but it almost sounds as if it was played live and hence attracted a lot of people not normally into techno. It's a fun little tune, but it was quite a bit overplayed at the time. It also pushed Swedish techno band RedNex to take the country music thingy even further in techno music (or actually Eurodisco in their case), which resulted in the embarrassing yet mysteriously hugely successful track 'Cotton Eye Joe'.
'Swamp Thing' was taken from the album Evolver.



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