polar - underwater

certain tracks can be quite uninteresting in general but still have an element that almost makes up for the rest. "underwater" by norweigan drum & bass producer kjetil sagstand (more known as polar or k, as in teebee & k). i bought the "37° c. and falling" album about a year or two ago and had a re-listen quite recently and this track sort of stood out.

reason being is because the pingpong samples that are used for the foundation of the track and can be heard throughout the track. sagstand opens up the track with the sounds of a pingpong match and some pads and it carries on from there. you hear the pingpong-balls used as percussion and i really like how he chose to execute it.

the only problem is that the rest of track is a bit to anonymous for me. sure it is really well produced track and carries the trait of the clean & dark arctic drum & bass style that sagstand and teebee is known for but it's music to be heard in a set, not on it's own. so the error in judgement lies with me that listened to it in another context than that.

but by all means it isn't a bad track and while i like the flute that is worked in on the second half of the track, it still doesn't bring anything interesting to the table. the flute is definantly sampled from jeremy steig's "howling for judy" as it sounds incredibly similar. same track was also more famously sampled by the beastie boys for their "sure shot".

if i would be given the parts to redo this track then i would keep the atmosphere, the drums and most of the track but i would put even more focus on the pingpong. it only makes sense.