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Re: [microsound] Re: 4/4's for neanderthals



In a message dated 10/22/2002 1:00:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, dt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> there needs to be a
> modicum of conflict in a beat, be it in 4/4 time.

This is what I was going to say.  There's nothing good or bad about 4/4 time, it's just how you articulate the subdivisions of the beats.  Techno (disco) really nails those quarter notes with the kick.  I really "got" techno when I listened more carefully to all the other syncopated fragments coming in and out, which, without the kick, there would have been no frame of reference.

michael