感受性豊かな音楽を電子機器で表現するのはそう簡単な事ではありません。カニエ・ウエストは
しかし、以下で聞けるMoscow Clubの新しいトラック、”Sanatorium”では、人間味のある生音と、機械的なシンセサイザーが上手く調和されています。ボーカルに強いエフェクトをかけるのではなく、淡く、音を殺さない程度のボーコーダーを通すことで、人間の声の持つ特有の暖かさをいかせていると考えます。”time is passing by”のような歌詞は、2001年あたりにいたバンド、ハルみたく電子的でないので、とても心に沁みてきます。このようなボーカルと、シンセサイザーが美しく調和し、８０年代の映画のような幻想的な世界を描いています。
Trying to create music that’s emotionally rich with electronic gadgets can be tricky. Kanye West managed to convey emotion on 808s & Heartbreak, but T-Pain fell flat in most of his attempts and ended up sounding like a whiny robot. Tokyo’s Moscow Club strike just the right balance between the heartfelt and Hewlett Packard on their new song “Sanatorium,” which you can hear below. The song works because the group avoids slathering the vocals in digital effects and instead merely glazes them in some vocoder, which allows them to retain a sense of humanness. Lines like “time is passing by” come through without sounding like Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The accompanying synths compliment the vocodered vocals and they end up with a track that could have been culled from a 1980s fantasy movie, by not allowing the bright sounds to smother the tune everything is spaced out just enough to make it a nice warm group hug.