thirdform

the best stuff is the hard acid/industrial hardcore end of the sound. somatic responses - dark lsd

I meant to say chicago house there and I was comparing to progressive house. To me they have a different sound. the funk driven chicago house music is a minority when taken globally, which is quite sad really.

Not only is western approaches to electronic music the dominant ones, but even house/detroit techno/disco/idm are minority scenes within that dominance. It is the sad truth that for instance, the biggest forms of electronic dance music as conscious scenes are progressive house, edm and the like. of course as I mentioned stuff like dabki is bigger than this stuff when looked at geographically, but dabki is not classified as electronic music so much as pop/wedding dance music played on keyboard. So it is misleading to put it in same categories as Iranian or Egyptian electronic experimental producers. It is sheer economy. Omar Soulimans band is not doing anything new. We used to call it org in turkey, for the pitch bending keyboards.

Actually time signatures aren't the be all and end all, because you can subdivide them relative to the time elapsed, so you can for instance hear 4-4 each second, or you can hear 4-4 in 1 25th of a second. Ableton is limited in this regard, but that has more to do with club music than it does colonialism (which is a massive issue but pitchfork loves to concatenate unrelated things together.) If you listen to the Safa album that recently came out on UIQ in some of the tracks you can hear how the standard techno grid gets divided so it feels like it's speeding up or slowing down, whilst keeping the same base time signature. Particularly the track called Uda and the Strikers at Najd. Some form of markov chain def needs to be implemented but I'm not sure if this software does that. I think Safa made his album in macs msp, which seems very amenable to this. But I am not very sure. Greetings from Turkey! This is correct. in fact most turkish, arabic, persian etc melodies can be played on synthesiser no problem. After all dabki is one of the biggest forms of electronic music worldwide, much bigger than German techno. But the rhythms to a degree will always remain inferior to darbuka players.