I’m travelling to New York tomorrow and have been creating a new iPod playlist for the flight. I quite like the new Beyonce song, Deja Vu, so I downloaded it (and the Freemasons remix). I like how she introduces all the instruments before they kick in… “Bass… Hi-Hat… 808…”.

I’m sure loads of songs used to do that, not just Mike Oldfield, who definitely did it on Tubular Bells with loads of weird instruments, I’d never heard of when I was 5, “one slightly sampled electric guitar”… Anyway, I like it, I think more people should start introducing their instruments on their songs.