"Buckie High" and "A Forest" similarity

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This has been bugging me for years so I messed around in audacity a little bit to see if I was onto something. This may just be confirmation bias; Skinny Puppy used a similar melody in "VX Gas Attack".

The opening to "A Forest" by The Cure slightly edited and laid over the beat to "Buckie High":


I know jack about audio editing so maybe someone else could do a better job.

[Fredd-E]

Great find. Very similar. Listening the track by The Cure now and I can't not hear Buckie High anymore.

[Dmitrii]

I agree this sounds extremely similar, most definitely sampled. Great find!

A Forest melody is A / С / F / D
Buckie High core melody is Ab / B / F# / Db.
so BOC transposed the sample 1 semitone down except the 3rd note, which was transposed 1 semitone up, and added passing notes half-step down before the 3rd and 1st beats.

here's the synth from "A Forest" but the notes are from Buckie High:
[media]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... e_High.mp3[/media]

Here's the spectrum of A Forest:


Here's Buckie High - you can notice that that the sample was put though a filer (so it's more bass-heavy and "fluent")

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