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"E minor with a G in the bass"

"6 Underground," which I still find incomprehensibly great after eight years, is largely based around a modulation from a minor to major (F#, I suspect). The ways in which this allows for interesting deviations within a traditional western melodic structure are intractably interesting (and there is much to say about the progression of "SLTS": one way to understand F>Bb>G#>C# is as a song in the key of G#, where the F and Bb are actually modulations-to-major of the key's two convenient minors, Fm and Bbm. Side note: as a chord progression, it has zipnada to do with any songs by the lovely Boston rock band Boston).

Is this almost-modal device in "6 Underground" something that trip-hop does regularly? Will some reader who's spent more time with the compositional structures of the genre donate their know-how?