Swingshift
by Arcturus
A Shattered Fixtures Release
Well, I've always wanted to write a swing-style song, so here it is. I
don't have too many comments about it, I'd just like to thank my swing
lovin' friends, who played some of the songs and got me to like the style!
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Tom Drum
BDRUM.WAV
Closed Hat
Open Hat
Snare Drum
Brass
Saxophone
Bass
LowClarinet
Trumpet
Cymbal
Bass Drum sample is mine
others from Wave, Setec,
Skaven, and some are
generic samples that
nobody can remember who
originally wrote!
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This, along with Jungle Trek and Indefinite Radiant, is one of three songs I completed in a brief flurry of songwriting in the summer of 1998.
In the late 1990’s, there was a brief resurgence in popularity of the Swing / Big Band style of music. I got into it very slightly myself, even purchasing a compilation CD of swing hits called “Swing This, Baby!” I only liked the music, I never cared for the dancing (I learned some basic swing dancing a few times, but was never very good at it).
I decided to give it a shot as a mod, and so I threw this together. The basic inspiration for this song came from Benny Goodman’s famous rendition of “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing).” Other inspiration also came from “Cool” from West Side Story. Unusual for me, the speed of the song is very fast and thus the patterns go through very quickly. I loved the sound of the tom drums in swing music, and so I put a lot of emphasis on those. Naturally, I used a groove tempo - in fact, this was the last time I ever did a groove tempo in a mod.
This song was a lot of fun to make. I don’t think my groupmates in Shattered Fixtures appreciated it as much, or at least I only heard from those in the group that weren’t into this style of music.
I was beginning to work a graveyard shift job at the time and had overheard about others that worked in the “swing shift” which is probably where I heard the phrase that inspired the title.
- arcturus