You have reached this place, because you have recieved the Mick Nye surprise.

In case you haven't heard the sample, then this will spoil the experience, so click away now and read no further.

Ok, so you got the sound, and the experience :o). This effect is a sample from the beginning to the composition The girl and the clock being released on the double Music&Video album WAKE UP!.

This sound effect make people jump up in the air - because:

In the beginning nothing seems to happen for a long time, apart from a boring ventilation buzz from the lu in a Parisian cafe; therefore, people start to loose attention, and the mind starts searching for reasoning in the sound, the ears and mind turn, so to speak, their recording level up, in order to hear something and make sense out of it.

And then it strikes. In the original track, after about a minute of almost nothingness, it goes BAM!. However not just BAM! but BAM! in a particular way: It is a mix of a female voice breathing nervously (Voice by: Emma Morin), an old japanese woodblock - an instrument developed over centuries to provide the most precise and loudest attack of all instruments (used to wake up people from meditations) - and traffic noise mixed in such a way, that the volume peaks change violently and very fast from -60dB to 0dB.

The female voice, the loud woodblock and the violent traffic noise and fast volume changes, creates a psychological effect of chock - a wake up call one could say, and as we have just been sharpening our ears and mind to hear if there is anything worth listening to in the ventilation buzz at all then, when the BAM! hits, it hit you with your mind perceptive and wide open, and therefore get right in, and thus have a very strong effect on most people. An adrenaline kick, one could say, that will open up the attention to the music that follows.

Ain't music fun!

Peace and love Mick - www.micknye.com