M83 Midnight City Stems - |link|

When the vocal stems are heard in isolation, particularly with heavy processing, you notice human traces transformed into instrument — breaths, syllabic fragments, pitch warps — shifting the boundary between singer and synth.

Many producers struggle with bass that sounds good on headphones but flabby on a club system. In the of Midnight City , the bass note plays a syncopated pattern, but crucially, it is side-chained heavily to the kick drum. However, the attack is so fast that you don't hear the "pumping" effect; you just feel the kick punching through. The stem teaches you invisible side-chaining . m83 midnight city stems