Recording
Ice Drop
DJ Lag
Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 2016
- Label
- Goon Club Allstars
- On
- Gqom and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Analysis
12 sections, the first drop of 5 at 0:03, 1% of the way in.
- Tempo
- 129.2 BPM
- holds throughout
- Dynamic range
- 3.2 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 6:24
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 0:21Apeakbar 11
- 0:35Bpeakbar 19
- 1:04Cpeakbar 35
- 1:50Abreakdownbar 59
- 2:05Asteadybar 67
- 2:16Cpeakbar 73
- 2:56Dsteadybar 95
- 3:20Abreakdownbar 108
- 3:47Cpeakbar 122
- 5:18Cbreakdownbar 171
- 6:01Aoutrobar 194
Drops at 0:03 (bar 2), 1:56 (bar 63), 2:57 (bar 95), 3:46 (bar 121), 5:24 (bar 174). 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 · one of 6 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:21
- Energy
- 71
- Brightness
- 14
- Density
- 66
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:14
- Energy
- 99
- Brightness
- 10
- Density
- 52
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:30
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 49
- Density
- 48
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:45
- Energy
- 94
- Brightness
- 93
- Density
- 35
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:16
- Energy
- 13
- Brightness
- 18
- Density
- 27
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · sung · one of 6 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:11
- Energy
- 75
- Brightness
- 56
- Density
- 29
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:40
- Energy
- 90
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 46
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:24
- Energy
- 85
- Brightness
- 35
- Density
- 30
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:27
- Energy
- 41
- Brightness
- 41
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 1:31
- Energy
- 97
- Brightness
- 88
- Density
- 46
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 4 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:43
- Energy
- 75
- Brightness
- 79
- Density
- 63
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 6 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:23
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 0
- 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
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- outro
- the closing fall
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. 1 in Gqom
Written at seventeen and the first gqom track to get a video. Three elements, no resolution, and a low end that makes the case for the whole genre in ninety seconds.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Written at seventeen. Three elements, no resolution, and a low end that argues for a whole genre in ninety seconds.