Slave to the Rhythm

Greatape

Nice vid by Warren Hyatt. Interesting process. Threw most of the orchestral arrangement away...

Stratavarious

Excellent vid.   

Greatape

Sneaky insertion of 3/4. Never noticed before.

EricTheWeary

I was expecting Sly and Robbie but I think she did one album with them and one with Trevor Horn et al. 

Part way through - unexpected sighting of a Boss HM2. 

Greatape

One day of recording, weeks of editing. 

Zoolooter

EricTheWeary said:

I was expecting Sly and Robbie but I think she did one album with them and one with Trevor Horn et al. 

Part way through - unexpected sighting of a Boss HM2. 

Sly and Robbie did four albums, the phenomenal Nighclubing, Warm Leatherette and Living my Life. All brilliantly engineered and produced. Walking in the Rain played loud on a quality system blows me away every time. Those albums really were peak Sly and Robbie. The fourth album was Hurricane which was garbage. 

fnpt

Nice to see a fellow Madeira guy (Luis Jardim) in the recording.

Blueingreen

Fabulous track.  I learned the bass part for a cover band back in the day. One thing I remember is that, at least on the version we covered, there were two bass guitars for a bit at one point later in the song. I assume what had originally been two separate attempts at the bass part had been left to overlap for a few seconds. 

Lodious

Brilliant video, thanks for sharing. I'd always assumed this would have been hyper surgically produced, but it sounds like they actually went with the flow on a number of important elements of the track. The production is a lot more basic than I'd expected, which makes me think it's probably musical genius rather than production values which make it so striking. 

Greatape

I think it's a good job he had his bass part replaced, judging by his guitar part, which is kind of shambolic. But maybe that contrast to the rest works.

PolarityMan

Whjats going on with the monitor on the left, has he greenscreened himslef onto his own studio?

PolarityMan

Had this on in the background and jesus god this is a very 80s track isnt it?