electric relaxation

On the way to work yesterday, it occurred to me that the drum line for Heartless is almost identical to Clipse’s Grindin’. I think that’s actually what jumped out when I first heard Heartless, and that’s in fact what I was drawn to in the Kanye song.

I easily found a copy of the Grindin’ instrumental, but I couldn’t find the Kanye acapella. I’m glad I tried though, because I stumbled on a bunch of acapella and instrumental compilations that should be a lot of fun to mess around with…

Anyway, even without the acapella it works reasonably well, since the Neptunes beat is so dominating and Heartless is fairly subdued. I’ll post a recording of the outcome when I’m not too lazy to hook up the loopback audio cable.

Next time: Ramesh does his best Girl Talk imitation as he searches for something to mix over Space Age Love Song (the ’80s New Wave hit by A Flock of Seagulls).