Remember my last post? I used Air’s Sexy Boy as an example of sound layering which I like. It turns out that yesterday I saw them playing live at Wireless Festival in Hyde Park. It was an excellent performance that I enjoyed enthusiastically and as a bonus I witnessed how the layering bass in that song is actually done. The “synth” bass is not “just” a synth bass, the trick is achieved using a vocoder. To me it wasn’t obvious just by listening to the recording but it was once I saw it performed live. This is another reason why I love going to concerts from my favourite artists, by keeping our eyes open while listening we can learn one or two tricks from them.