From Iain H. Sent Thu, Oct 16th 1997, 01:22
From Iain H. Sent Thu, Oct 16th 1997, 01:22
>Bullitt bitten by The Black Dog (Mini Driver Jam) 3:46 >Bullitt bitten by The Black Dog (Cruise Control) 4:34 >Bullitt bitten by The Black Dog (Dogalytic Converter) 5:57 > >What two are on the cd? And any chance of a review? >Pretty please? > >Chris Both 'mini driver jam' and 'cruise control' are on the Lalo Schifrin CD single (WESP002CD) of 'Bullitt'. 'mini driver jam' is a lock groove type track. There are some lovely soundstage transversing horns and pink-panther-film-type brass stabs along with some very Miles Davis-esque cool-jazz come soft-porn soundtrack trumpet playing. As far as I can tell pretty much none of the brass samples (though possibly a minor flute thingy near the end) come from the original track - which is a shame here as they are verdant fodder - in fact only the first few seconds of drum intro is an obvious reference. It's all quite nice, if not great, but its main downfall is a *very* ordinary synth sound and somewhat pointless melody which encroaches at the beginning and end and sounds totally as though it's come from some unimaginative pre-programmed option or other that you find on a casio or similar (you switch on, it's there - it's easy I know but I do usually enjoy TBD's magician-like transmutative qualities and this just sounds so bland...). 'cruise control' definitely comes with more quality of sorts to my ears. The original piece has been plundered marvellously. Snippets of recognisable horns and jazz guitar fly through another lock-groove jazz-cum-buginthebassbin type beat made up of a *very* cool piano+bass+drums refrain (with added up-and-down tonal bass & beat filtering). Bits of incidental melody from the original are used to create new passages which, though I feel they're rather flighty at the beginning, settle down approaching the end. The only criticism I could level here - and I don't really want to because it is a good remix but what the heck, I'll be a little wicked - is the strange-but-true comparison that could be made for the first (and hopefully only) time between TBD and US3 ;) Rubyjune. p.s. The full "music from the motion picture Bullitt" soundtrack CD is a worthy purchase. It's not very long but demonstrates some good production and cheerful scoring - and it's groovy as hell (but don't put it on in the car 'cause you're absolutely guaranteed to end up driving too fast...) ;)