Galloping Elephant

Galloping Elephant

Twisted Individual [Grid]

29 October, 2007 | 1.00PM

• Section: Music Reviews
• Written by: The Last Real DJ Alive

What do you expect from a tune called ‘Galloping Elephant’?

Perhaps an ambient orchestral arrangement featuring no kicks and snares?

Well, then you’ve come to the wrong place.

Building with heavily gated and boosted drums, ‘Galloping Elephant’ has a standard drum & bass intro with a few winding pads and a vertically pitch-scaling build up.

The drop has “dancefloor” written all over it – this isn’t something to listen to when you’re doing the ironing [not unless you plan to maul your wife with scalding metal].

It’s represents a big, disgusting, galloping mammal of bass and beats that, on the right sound system, will make a dance floor quake and cause tsunamis in the overflowing toilets.

No wonder the drop is preceded by a ‘BLUDCLAT’ sample – this really is a song to make you reach for the menstruation cloth.

The other track on this release, ‘Studio Belly’, is clearly some sort of in-joke by Twisted that was inspired by the typical diet of someone who never leaves their studio.

And it’s a departure from his usual sound – slipping and sliding everywhere – it has got to be one of the sleeper D&B hits of the year.

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