Why We Love Repetitive Electronic #music
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‘The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.’ — Charles BaudelaireElectronic dance music has always been a playground for old patterns in new guises: repetitive rhythms with various shifting musical layers. Yet, the various expressions of repetitive rhythmic patterning are not new developments confined to music technology. African tribal music, South American shamanic music, loop-based analogue tech music all share the same etiology: familiar rhythmic geometry, layered with intoxicating sonic expressions. And blending these patterns with cutting edge music technology is the paradigm that keeps genres like techno at the forefront of electronic music culture. But what is (...)