With snow covering the UK this evening I've been trying to think of an appropriate track to write about and this is about the best that I can think of. It came out on Bad Company's final album, 'Shot Down On Safari', which was actually one of the last drum'n'bass releases I ever bought on vinyl, excluding reissues of classic jungle tunes and second hand stuff. The scene was moving away from the styles I preferred and there were fewer and fewer records I was interested in.
Although they'd had the "Clown Step" label thrown at them by this point I still loved Bad Company's productions and 'Snow Cat' is pretty typical of their later output, catchy and well produced but still fairly hard. It centers around a punchy ascending, descending melodic bassline accompanied by distorted 808 kick drum stabs and heavily filtered reese basslines. The drums are constructed from the 'It's A New Day' break with a less prominent 'Tighten Up' break underneath. Although not my favourite on the album it is a quality track which doesn't deserve to be overshadowed by the likes of 'Hornet' and 'Torpedo'.