The title track of an old James Bond movie crossed my way: “Die Another Day” by Madonna. Even though this song was produced in 2002, its sound still has a very strong dark pressure and is perfectly engineered for a motion picture soundtrack. I just love the strong cutoff-/resonance-filtered 303 sound, which begins at 0:30 min and even has several solo parts throughout the track. It is a major foreground element of this track, like something uncatchable, excellent for this purpose. Madonna produced this song together with Mirwais Ahmadzai, he used strong filtered 303 sounds in his other music as well.
I recently used the 303 sound for my remix of The Him “Nothing On Us” as well, but by far not as sophisticated as Mirwais. The 303 sound was developed in 1981, but it never dies.
