For this energetic dance-pop track, I went for a different approach.

It's structured like a normal pop song, has key and tempo changes, and I've experimented with off-key guitar strumming.

The melody is subtle because I'm thinking of hiring a singer for this one.

1st Revision : recorded a few guitar licks for that ultimate send-off. This track will be part of "Reverb" because I quite like the sound.

Thoughts :

I was listening to some late 80s and early 90s Japanese pop music (city-pop is a term you're familiar with) and I couldn't help but notice the immaculate production levels. Some of the producers were parts of legendary Jazz Fusion bands like Casiopeia, T-Square, legendary musicians like Masayoshi Takanaka and Ryo Kawasaki, I can't fit them all, but they mastered Funk & Jamming to a scary level.

It reflects in their gear as well, one of my favorite synthesizers, the DX7, has a bass preset so slappy, so musically delicious, that only a person from that type of background can master, and that's the sort of epiphany I had listening to those albums (track reference: Akiko Nakazato - I Know The Truth), and it lead me to believe that Japanese gear should be used to its utmost potential.

It also explains why City-pop is so catchy, it combines the groove of black american music like Jazz, with Japanese musicianship, and you get something robotically good, which was something David Bowie said about ABC (the New Wave band)'s groundbreaking music in the early 80s.

And this is to say that master Japanese musicians had enormous respect for their African-American counterparts (Yuzo Koshiro, famous Sega composer, credited the black dance clubs of the 80s for Streets of Rage), and I'm giving my homage to both groups, hoping one day to reach their level.