Amid gleaming synthesizer tones (from Japanese keyboards) and crafty pop hooks, his music is still Senegalese to its core.

Synthesizers are used in many musical theatre productions, either to create new, modern synthesizer tones, or to simulate orchestral instruments with sampled or synthesized tones.

It is a recording-studio assemblage, made from tape loops and synthesizer tones and never written as a conventional score.

Both rappers discuss their futures as fathers on the track, flowing smoothly over mellow, lightly psychedelic synthesizer tones.

For every simple strum or old-fashioned honky-tonk piano lick, there were also bubbling synthesizer tones and chord progressions that strayed into unlikely harmonies.

But now, Portishead has put claws on its sound; guitars and keyboards turn distorted and synthesizer tones nag and zap.

The songs are rooted in the 1980s: that era of booming drumbeats, gauzy synthesizer tones, gothic grandeur and newly discovered international beats.

Songs end with dangling production gimmicks - a synthesizer tone, a stray backup vocal - as if to give listeners a peek behind the curtain.

Wobbly old synthesizer tones and thin, twangy vintage guitar settings still have a certain charm.

He adds these to gritty synthesizer tones, distorted voices and machine beats to create data-overload collages.