My vinyl of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits, including classics like “Ben” and “We’re Almost There” had a crackley track of “Wanna Be Where You Are” just the time that I started spelunking into more House and Dance music, and the timing couldn’t have been better.
I tried to work in a Motownesque high hat pattern and drum fill to keep the Soulful foundation, and wanted to build up as much as possible to Michael’s emotional drops, in this case the opening bar “Can it be I stayed away too long”.
The midway build-up drops in with “It’s not my thing trying to get back”, falling back to the get-down business of the beat.
Definitely an enjoyable project.
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