Recording
Pulp Fiction
Alex Reece
- Released
- 1995
- Label
- Metalheadz
- On one list
- Drum and Bass
- Updated
- 2026-08-28
Analysis
8 sections, the first drop of 3 at 0:24, 7% of the way in, 11% of it spent climbing.
- Tempo
- 161.5 BPM
- holds throughout
- Key
- B minor
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 4.1 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 6:12
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:25Bpeakbar 17
- 1:55Bpeakbar 78
- 3:31Bpeakbar 142
- 3:55Cbuildbar 158
- 4:37Cpeakbar 187
- 5:07Bbreakdownbar 207
- 5:19Cpeakbar 215
Drops at 0:24 (bar 17), 3:13 (bar 130), 4:01 (bar 162). A drop is a moment, not a stretch — marked on the track above rather than shaded across it.
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:25
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 1:30
- Energy
- 94
- Brightness
- 9
- Density
- 98
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 1:36
- Energy
- 91
- Brightness
- 3
- Density
- 92
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:24
- Energy
- 96
- Brightness
- 41
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:42
- Energy
- 88
- Brightness
- 50
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:30
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 24
- Density
- 99
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:12
- Energy
- 63
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 30
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:53
- Energy
- 89
- Brightness
- 20
- Density
- 96
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- build
- energy and brightness climbing without a break
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
Against Drum and Bass
Drops where Drum and Bass usually drops — 7% of the way in.
8 sections here; 9 is typical.
Drawn from the 13 records on our Drum and Bass list we have measured. The line over the energy curve above is that median.
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 7 in Drum and Bass
The moment the two-step beat arrived and the genre stopped running. Half the tempo in feel, all of it in fact — a rhythmic trick that reshaped everything that followed.