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Re: Music and the Future Generation
Posted By: Travholt, on host 193.69.109.2
Date: Monday, February 12, 2001, at 04:46:02
In Reply To: Re: Music and the Future Generation posted by eric sleator on Monday, February 12, 2001, at 00:43:41:

> > I think 70's Disco as a genre itself isn't bad. It's what disco evolved into -- late 90's House music, or what's simply called Dance music -- which is monotonously aggravating beyond the pale. How did Iss phrase it delicately?
> >
> > THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
> > THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
> > THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
> > THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
> > THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
> > THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!
> >
> > and so on. Ugh.
>
> Well, no, that's not what it is. In the musical sandwich, the THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! is just the bread. No one will eat to it unless you put something else on it, something good. The purpose of the rhythm is to back up the melody.


Then you have the standard "build-up" in the bridge, between all the 'THUMP-tss-THUMP-tss'-ing:

Thwack. Thwack.
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack.
Thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack
Thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw-thw
T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t
SMASH!

Trav"why don't anybody come up with something *new*?"holt.