Colonial Mentality by Fela Kuti
Colonial Mentality by Fela Kuti runs at 167 BPM in the key of F minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 167 BPM
- Key
- F minor
- Length
- 13:42
- Genre
- afrobeats
- Mood
- triumphant
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Suno prompt
A triumphant afrobeats track with explosive energy and a swung feel at 167 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a brushed snare and washy crash-led cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows a slow linear build. An electric guitar leads, trading short motifs. Tape saturation adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the lead. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding melodic lead and low-end weight, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a tense and coiled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 167
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- washy crash-led cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- afrobeats
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Lead instrument
- an electric guitar
- Lead style
- trading short motifs
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- triumphant
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- melodic lead
- Secondary focus
- low-end weight
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- a slow linear build
- Textural detail
- tape saturation
About this page
This is an independent acoustic analysis. Tempo and key are measured from the audio; instrumentation and production characteristics are classified against a fixed vocabulary. The source recording is deleted once the analysis finishes, and no lyrics from it are stored.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Fela Kuti. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.