Ride the Sky: The Music of Flight

[version]

Wind in your hair, soaring through blue.

 

[pattycakes_]

Wind in your hair, soaring through blue skies.

Bit harsh on Luka, versh

 

[version]

Combination of speed and lightness is integral. If you drop the tempo, it's just floaty. There has to be a sense of wispy momentum to it. I suppose we could expand it to airy tunes in general if this is too narrow and the thread dies on impact.

 

[pattycakes_]

The wind whipping your baldy pate as you glide through the air with little to no resistance.

D is an inclusive space.

 

[version]

Always felt 'Only Shallow' was like torpedoing through clouds on a glorious sunny day. It's almost too slow and heavy, but there's just enough momentum to keep the feeling. Sounds like one of those cloud angels with the sun blasting through.

 

[other_life]

future grime emcees over techstep lightens it a lot, music oft criticised here and elsewhere as plodding (which is true enough) esp. compared to jungle-qua-jungle
the Flightiest valentines tracks are the 87-89 stuff easy, 90 on definitely skews 'floatier'.

 

[version]

 

[version]

There's perhaps some techno that fits the bill, although there's something decidedly non-flighty about four to the floor. It doesn't seem to have the necessary spring and space to achieve lift off. The rhythm keeps pulling you back down to Earth.

 

[0bleak]

lol: that wasn't an intentional rebuttal to @version - I was already going to post that before I saw the latest post.

 

[version]

Yeah, thought about this one and 'Enforcement'. This one's probably the best shout, although I think more of hurtling down motorways than flight when I hear it; sounds like tunnels and high speed railways.

 

[0bleak]

I can see that.
Maybe focused too much on the "wind in the hair".

 

[version]

This has it for me because of the combination of forward momentum and gliding, ethereal pads, keys and vocals. There's a weightlessness and openness to it.



Whereas this one, by the same producer, doesn't. There's something claustrophobic about it that sounds head down, like riding a superbike in a deep sea tunnel.

 

[0bleak]

although there is probably some dub techno that gives a flying or gliding feel
or something like this with dub techno applied to halftime dnb (I'm probably too influenced by the image - but like gliding over snowy mountains)

 

[bassbeyondreason]

 

[thirdform]

@craner 's agony aunt on vocs

 

[version]

although there is probably some dub techno that gives a flying or gliding feel
or something like this with dub techno applied to halftime dnb (I'm probably too influenced by the image - but like gliding over snowy mountains)

Yeah, this has it. You can feel the windchill.

 

[version]

The title's obviously an influencing factor, but the verses have this soaring, blasting sensation like accelerating into the sky.

 

[pattycakes_]

#versioncore

 

[version]

Wasn't sure any hip-hop could have it, but 93 'Til Infinity just about does.

 

[other_life]

map the distinction between 'the dual improbability and necessity of heavy machinery in flight' and 'borne like an eagle on pinions'