Moby - Why does my heart feel so bad?

Club dance music. New York – hip-hop/dance music scene. Influenced by Dub, Chicago house,. Scratching, Garage. From his 1999 album - Play

Changed by the amount of instruments playing
Call and response (question and answer)

A minor and C major
Harmonises the vocal phrases one in a major key and the other in a minor key
Vocal phrases are in Aminor

Repeated chord progressions
Use of sus 4 and sus2 chords
Only 6 chords used

Based around two vocal samples taken from a gospel choir.
Use of countermelody.

Piano
Male vocal and female vocal
Vocal samples, drum loop, synth pad
Percussion – shaker, snare drum, bass drum

Vocal samples
Echoes, traffic noises are heard in the background
Drum loop
Technological effects:
 Echo on the vocal sample
 EQ effect applied
 Use of delay
 reverb
Panning in the stereo field

98 BPM

4/4
Syncopated rhythms
Repeated rhythms
Sampled hip hop break beats

Simple structure based around two chord sequences
The chord sequences are arranged in 8 bar blocks