{"id":5565,"date":"2016-09-13T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2018-03-24T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T18:11:35","slug":"sensual-musicology-a-far-lamore-e-nato-ciro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/archives\/5565","title":{"rendered":"A far l&#8217;amore \u00e8 nato Ciro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WoP2DwFI9MY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A very good way to find out where House (and often Techno) comes from, is to slow it down radically and hear what happens. It almost always works, and if you&#8217;re a fan of slower grooves like myself, it&#8217;s a constant source of entertainment. The very first time I did this was back in the 80s, live at Radio Citt\u00e0 Futura in Rome, where I played (repeatedly, for weeks) the 45 rpm, 12 inch single <em>Private Dancer<\/em> by Tina Turner at 33 rpm, inventing a new singer, very similar to Barry White. In that case, it was slowed down a whole octave &#8211; a pretty radical change.<\/p>\n<p>A subtler approach is to use the speed adjustment of a turntable: very immediate, and sonically very interesting, because you&#8217;re both slowing the tempo and lowering the pitch. Which is the best way to go, if you ask me: the &#8220;physical&#8221; slowing down of a tune boosts the bass frequencies, giving more oomph to the whole rhythm section. Digital tempo change (time stretch that retains the song&#8217;s pitch) you miss all that: perhaps it&#8217;s useful in live situations, but it&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m after. If you don&#8217;t have speed adjustment available, you can use a software sampler: assign a whole song file to the middle C note, and see what happens if you play the lower G (or, in other cases, the lower C, which is one octave below and precisely twice the lenght). It doesn&#8217;t sound as good (because you are actually lowering the sampling frequency), but it does the trick.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is what I did. I took <em>A Far L&#8217;Amore<\/em> by Raffaella Carr\u00e0, remixed by Bob Sinclar (which I really like, despite its ugliness), removed all the offending parts (that is all the vocals: the blaring, two dimensional italian verse, the insanely corny chorus and a painful hook) and slowed it by 25%, or three musical semitones: from its original 128bpm riviera beat, to a cool 103.<\/p>\n<p>For some obscure reason, the result immediately sounded like Naples to me. So I dropped in one of the most iconic neapolitan songs of the post war era, <em>Tammurriata Nera<\/em> (as sung by the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare). The very first time I&#8217;ve performed my music on television (and one of the last &#8211; tv and I have had a difficult relationship), back in 1991, I played a tune consisting of the Peter Gunn Theme (by Henry Mancini), mashed up with the <em>Tammurriata Nera<\/em>. I&#8217;m glad I got to use it again.<\/p>\n<p>Hats down to whoever programmed this beat: at 128 bpm it&#8217;s annoying, but you can slow it down to death and still dance to it. And my respect to the NCCP and its member Carlo D&#8217;Angi\u00f2, who recently passed.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a Dj and you want a HQ file, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/contact\">email me<\/a> and I&#8217;ll send it to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very good way to find out where House (and often Techno) comes from, is to slow it down radically and hear what happens. 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