By the time the album was released, Juvenile was already a star in his native New Orleans; he was a veteran of bounce music, a local genre built on exuberant beats and sing-song chants.
Formerly a superstar D.J., now merely a star D.J., Fatboy Slim pursues his own gregarious vision of dance music: he likes big, memorable vocal samples; basslines so fat you can sing them, not just dance to them; exuberant beats that evoke the buoyant spirit (and sometimes sound) of pre-disco dance music.
During "Mysterious Ways," U2 sounded like dance-punk legend Gang of Four, which in the late '70s coupled exuberant beats with rants against commercialism.
Featuring pitch shifted R&B vocals and exuberant beats, the song is a party anthem, which has received the remix treatment from Ryan Hemsworth, Louis The Child, and more.
Featuring crazy synthetic sounds and exuberant beats, the music was born in the underground and gradually morphed into the mainstream-friendly version that Anitta and her group of producers have popularized. .
Featuring crazy synthetic sounds and exuberant beats, the music was born in the underground and gradually morphed into the mainstream-friendly version that Anitta and her group of producers have popularized.
Mr. Gordon, a composer who has worked with Mr. Feld in recent years, helps out considerably with a meandering musical line above the exuberant modular beat.
The exuberant Motown beat in "I Feel Better" only pulls him partway out of the despair he keeps returning to in the verses; "Save Me" extols the lover who eases his suicidal anxiety.
Their entrepreneurial zeal has apparently bought them most of the city's bodegas and many of its livery cabs, and, to an exuberant merengue beat, they have revived a decaying Washington Heights.
And yet the album never sounds glum: it's full of exuberant hip-hop beats and singalong refrains.
The story of New Orleans hip-hop begins in earnest with what is known as bounce music: festive beats, exuberant chants, simple lyrics that ruled local nightclubs and breezeway parties in the late 1980's and early 90's.
