submerged & sub.tera - idoru

i heard this one a few years ago when browsing some of the newer drum & bass records on juno and the small sample had me hooked. the title was quite interesting as i've heard of gibson's book with the same title at the same time, also a mate of mine use/used "idoru" as handle for a long time. now i have never read the book but i've read the synopsis and the title can be described as romaji of the word "idol".

the title is fitting as "idoru" samples hamasaki ayumi and long before hamasaki became the big star that she is now, she was part of the cultural phenomena that is the japanese idol scene. now there is a part of me that wants to flesh out this segue even more. but it is just going to be pointing out facts you can read for yourself on the intarwebs, and by that i mean wikipedia. there would have also been some (not so) random cheap-shot against simon fuller & simon cowell's own cultural phenomena pop idol/american idol.so we are having none of that an now back to the regular babble about this track.

the song that is sampled is "appears" and that was amongst the first hamasaki ayumi tracks that i heard and liked. "idoru" kicks off with tr-808 drums at halftime with an reverbed vocal loop and it eventually goes into the chorus from the original. as i know that there isn't a proper acapella to be found i think submerged & sub.tera either sampled the track from the breakdown of armin van buuren's remix or junior vasquez's padapella version of the track.

after a while it goes into drum & bass tempo and the track is equipped with a punchy drumbreak and a synth sound that plays of the effected vocal loop that they are riding again. then there is a drop with a downright vicious reese that is resinating brilliantly and giving me a proper kippenvel. while the reese is for the midrange the bass is now a mauling rolling bassline that attacks the dancefloor like a bulldozer.

there is so much right that goes on in this track and even though i tend to prefer drum & bass that focuses on snappy breaks and atmosphere, this hits home. especially in combination of other vicious tracks like future prophecies' "black dragon" or concord dawn's "appollo 13"

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