And it's fine to a point, but the overbearing session-rock sound strips the songs of the nuance that soaks through his work.
This is the essential pattern of the film: replacing the music and voice-over with naturalistic sound strips images of their propagandistic context in the original newsreels, and instead endows them with a less glorious aura.
In digital movie editing, sequence changes are instantaneous and entirely reversible quite unlike when the editing process involved the physical cutting and splicing of a film (image or sound) strip.
Dominic Maker and Kai Campos make serious music sound playful, stripping the overly academic electronic scene of pretense with plinking drums and stargazing notes that evoke a baby genius sampling toy pianos.
Producers like Chet Atkins created the Nashville sound by stripping the hillbilly elements of the instrumentation and using smooth instrumentation and advanced production techniques.
But where Waylon broke from the formulaic Nashville sound by stripping the orchestration out of his music and incorporating elements of rock (as well as unapologetically doing copious amounts of drugs), Struggle instead brings in hip-hop.
Of course you know they're jazz chords and they sound great stripped down on a piano or an acoustic guitar.
While preaching, he often would dance, weep, make animal sounds, strip to his underwear, or play the zither.
Singing the hook of Far East Movement's dance-rap club anthem "Live My Life," which was a hit this year, Mr. Bieber sounded bored, stripped of his beloved melisma, his gentleness no match for the song's relentless synthetic thump.
Without the horn fanfare in the middle or the audience's cheers and laughter, this version sounds pretty stripped back – and it features some trippy voices echoing around towards the end ("I feel it, I feel it, oh baby now I feel it … Gotta be free now").
