A musician by the name of Funkscribe somehow got his hands on the original mutlitrack masters of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” so he did what any music geek with a computer and a dream would do: He imported the tracks into ProTools in hopes of figuring out just how the song came to be. And the results are pretty wow; sure, watching the clip means you’re basically staring at a dude fiddle with his computer for five-plus minutes, but listening to this game of aural Jenga–which includes eight clavinet tracks–certainly made me hear the full track (located below) differently.
Obviously, all of this falls under the “watch it before the copyright cops get to it” umbrella, so hop to.
Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”–The Multitrack Masters [YouTube via via soupsoup]
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Very, very cool.
I love this stuff - this is like that Classic Albums series that never fails to impress me.
@Thierry: Have you seen the episode of CA about Songs In The Key Of Life? No “Superstition,” obviously, but Stevie breaks down the individual instruments in a lot of songs in a way that is just thrilling to watch.
Wow.
WOW.
Just…wow.
I’ve long put “Superstition” in my all-time Top 10. I now wonder whether it deserves to be No. 1. What a piece of work.
Thank you for that!
@Narrowcast: NO, but now I must. The Rumours episode is great - so much going in that record - as was the Graceland episode, for its explanation of that forward/backward bass bit in “You Can Call Me Al”.
If only we could have heard the breakdown without the analysis from this asshat.