Vox‘ Earworm in der neuen Episode darüber, wie der Fade Out seinen Platz in der Popmusik fand. Immer noch ein klasse Format.
The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today’s hits it’s much more likely you’ll hear a song that has a hard abrupt electronic ending. Bill Weir, wrote a great piece at Slate a few years ago tracking the rise and fall of the fade out in pop music: from one of the very first fade outs created by a literal wooden door to the epic 4 minute fade out of „Hey Jude.“ In the video above he brings me through that sonic journey.
