Disco Devil by Lee "Scratch" Perry
Disco Devil by Lee "Scratch" Perry runs at 154 BPM in the key of F major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
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Measured
- Tempo
- 154 BPM
- Key
- F major
- Length
- 7:52
- Genre
- reggae
- Mood
- brooding
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A brooding reggae track with explosive energy and a broken-beat feel at 154 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 loop-based with dynamic drops. A warm male vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance. Field-recording ambience adds texture, with a dub-style tape delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding percussive detail and melodic lead, 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
- 154
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- washy crash-led cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- reggae
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- brooding
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- percussive detail
- Secondary focus
- melodic lead
- Space
- a dub-style tape delay
- Structure
- loop-based with dynamic drops
- Textural detail
- field-recording ambience
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- Vocal
- a warm male vocal
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 Lee "Scratch" Perry. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.
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