Repetitive Music

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
Krautrock (probably Neu) was definitely what first made me understand the power of repetition.
Velvet Underground is the first, but it's true the Moe Tucker was more of a metronome than repetition as such

Dinger + Jaki Liebezeit (and maybe Werner Diermaier) are really the ones

Dinger was as noted a monomanical weirdo, just totally sui generis

but Liebezeit deliberately came to minimalism and repetition by stripping everything away from free jazz except the freedom

I'm sure I've posted this on Dissensus before, Jaki telling the amusing and extremely 60s anecdote of how he arrived at monotony
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
James Brown's coterie of funky drummers are also highly relevant - that mechanized precision that Kraftwerk sought to reproduce with machines

and Tony Allen - virtually any big Fela tune could fit comfortably into this thread

Tony Allen being more of an endless cyclical repetition that never resolves

and Earl Young who more or less invented four-on-the-floor
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
I've always divided "motorik" into two sub-categories

motorik proper, which is Dinger - the straightforward 4/4 with the kick playing 1/8th note triplets

and the Liebezeit motorik - basically what you hear on "Halleluwah", closer to that Tony Allen idea of endless cyclical repetition

Liebezeit did play a more straightforward 4/4 sometimes tho never (I think) the exact Dinger beat
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
True but when I first heard VU I thought of them (only) as a cool rock n roll drugs band... I didn't start THINKING about what they actually sounded like until I got older.
 

muser

Well-known member
Omar s is brilliant at this, there is one track that I can't be bothered to find out which one right now (theres a few though) where he changes up the hihats and it's virtuosic in its subtlety.
 

muser

Well-known member
What's interesting is when I hear people like villalobos do similar tricks it sounds contrived to me it makes the moments it's done right feel even more like some kind of genius
 

woops

is not like other people
Omar s is brilliant at this, there is one track that I can't be bothered to find out which one right now (theres a few though) where he changes up the hihats and it's virtuosic in its subtlety.
come on, let's have 'em
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
that facility with minimal loops being a real Detroit tradition

C2 at the height of his powers, spinning a 2-second loop into 14 minutes of floor-smashing madness

sample @7:22
 
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