Recording
Music
LTJ Bukem
- Released
- 1993
- Label
- Good Looking
- On one list
- Drum and Bass
- ISRC
- GBCCH9300039
- Updated
- 2026-08-28
Analysis
10 sections, the first drop of 2 at 1:39, 19% of the way in, 24% of it spent climbing.
- Key
- F# minor
- estimated from the pitch content
- Dynamic range
- 8.7 dB
- moderate range, typical of a modern master
- Length
- 8:49
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintro0
- 1:40Bbuildbar 43
- 2:55Bpeakbar 76
- 4:30Bsteadybar 117
- 4:43Cbuildbar 122
- 5:36Dpeakbar 145
- 6:25Dpeakbar 166
- 7:27Ebreakdownbar 193
- 8:04Dpeakbar 209
- 8:31Coutrobar 221
Drops at 1:39 (bar 43), 8:03 (bar 209). 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
- 1:40
- Energy
- 11
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 44
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 1:15
- Energy
- 84
- Brightness
- 97
- Density
- 74
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 1:36
- Energy
- 91
- Brightness
- 83
- Density
- 54
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:13
- Energy
- 84
- Brightness
- 93
- Density
- 71
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:53
- Energy
- 81
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (D)
- Lasts
- 0:49
- Energy
- 93
- Brightness
- 82
- Density
- 83
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (D)
- Lasts
- 1:02
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 61
- Density
- 52
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental
- Lasts
- 0:37
- Energy
- 44
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 24
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (D)
- Lasts
- 0:27
- Energy
- 99
- Brightness
- 58
- Density
- 53
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:18
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 44
- 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
- build
- energy and brightness climbing without a break
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- steady
- holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- outro
- the closing fall
Against Drum and Bass
Drops where Drum and Bass usually drops — 19% of the way in.
10 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. 4 in Drum and Bass
Where atmospheric drum and bass begins. Bukem swapped darkness for Rhodes chords and open space, and invented an entire strand of the genre that is still being mined.