Drums / drum samples:
Having mentioned that rigidity as an unappealing aspect of some productions, I'll have to eat my words talking about the drum fills that work as transitions in this track. My first impression is that they would have made a re-sample for this. I say this because the drum fill is inserted on top of groove rather than have the groove 'change' to the fill. It's the same each time and has a clear beginning and end. The sound is also slightly different (maybe just some filtering). The drums are quite an earthy and trashy set; plenty of noise in the snare. This is good because each stroke sounds different, rather than each being a repeat of the last. The tambourine is a great addition to this. A really dark and trashy hi hat could have been good too but the tambourine gets the trashy aesthetic whilst keeping in the higher register of cutting sounds.
Other instruments:
We're listening to a brass stab primarily in this beat. I do like the sonic 'trade' that occurs in that filtered intro I mentioned earlier. Listen to the grainy top get taken off the top of the horn as the drums work in the opposite direction. I feel like might work out positively with our ears feeling like we're not 'loosing' sound (make a gap, fill the gap). For the second half of this track, a lead synth takes the lead role in place of samples. This works in combination with the new kick drum sound to create a long build that fits more with today's popular synthesized sound for those types of builds. Listening to it, I would suggest that the synthesized sounds are more workable in stretching them out like that and build intensity.
This track came out this year and it fits most of my conceptions of the Aussie hip hop sound. It's also a bit more up tempo in the range of 107bpm.
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