The Korg M1 plugin is extremely reasonably priced at a mere $50 (opens in new tab), making it a no-brainer for lovers of rushing hardcore pianos, but if you’re after something that sounds a little different, then Korg’s later Triton (opens in new tab) synth has plenty of suitable patches, Roland Cloud (opens in new tab) features a plugin version of the popular JV-1080 sound module (which has its own pleasing piano tones), and of course reFX Nexus (opens in new tab) has some well-loved piano patches, too. In which many as been written to me on my blog at kongashare to reveal the link for Running in the 90s piano sheet music. The Korg M1’s Piano 8’ and Piano 16’ patches were responsible for an absolutely astounding number of rave-era anthems - Dream Frequency’s Feel So Real (opens in new tab), Manix’s Feel Real Good (opens in new tab) and M.A.N.I.C.’s I’m Comin’ Hardcore (opens in new tab), to name but a few - and while Hypnagogic isn’t a million miles away from that iconic tone, we found that we got cloest using the M1’s PianoWith? program, which even includes the same slap delay-esque effect used on the Calvin Harris track. You can hear it in most of Whitney Houstons electric piano ballads. We used (opens in new tab) to locate the vocal, which also appears on unauthorised vinyl acapella compilations (opens in new tab) if you’re after that OG sampling experience. 1985s Running Up That Hill, her most successful single, is no exception. Lashings of delay have also been applied to give them an epic feel, and while Calvin is stupendously rich, perhaps he opted to save a little cash by opting for a delay plugin that’s near-constantly on sale such as Waves’ H-Delay (opens in new tab). While old-skool hardcore tracks were infamous for speeding up vocals to ‘chipmunk’ pitch rather than timestretching them, here Harris has timestreched them to Hypnagogic’s 140BPM tempo and pitched them up a relatively subtle two semitones, which gives them a slightly more feminine quality. The acapella (opens in new tab) version of Peech Boys’ electro disco banger Don’t Make Me Wait (opens in new tab) was sampled heavily back in the heyday of rave, most famously in Altern 8’s Activ-8 (opens in new tab), as well as in a slew of other tracks including Citadel of Kaos’s Ronnies Revenge and DJ Trace’s Ain’t Gonna Wait No More (opens in new tab).
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