Word: drum
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...tricked-out trucks and lowriders were blasting the exact same song from their subwoofers. It wasn’t until I listened past the thumping bass and clockwork rhythm that I realized that I was hearing a whole genre of music; almost all reggaeton songs feature an identical drum rhythm, called “Dem Bow” after the Jamaican dancehall song it was borrowed from. I’m a part-time party DJ, so I was embarrassed to have been so ignorant of a whole world of dance music. But I wasn’t all that...
...years later, the Anglo-American couple and their young son Thomas visited London on a public relations scheme hatched by the Virginia Co. Its heavily indebted investors hoped the exotic New World princess would help them drum up desperately needed capital to keep their flagging American venture afloat...
...that genre demanded longer takes and a slower pulse; zombies are no sprinters. The new film has to be zazzier, even when nothing much is going on. Hut Fuzz gets many of its laughs the laying on of a Joel Silver hyped-up editing tempo and a macho drum-machine soundtrack to punctuate the interrogation of underage tipplers and the issuing of parking tickets...
...which features Timberlake and Furtado, Timbaland’s golden boy and girl—is nothing new, though still a great song. It’s another entry in Timbaland’s project to reconcile pop, hip-hop, and electronica, opening with a solid drum-line beat and taking the listener home with heavy synth lines. “Bounce” is by far the most intense song on the album. Its continuous synth bassline, combined with the sick flows of Missy and Dre, as well as JT’s conspicuously sexed-up chorus, make...
...sound. While essentially a rock band, elements of both dance and pop music inflect their work. Songs such as “Atlantis to Interzone” and “Forgotten Works” feature repetitious, heavily rhythmic sections and infectious dance beats provided by live guitar and drum work, all reminiscent of techno and rave. Yet on songs like “Golden Skans” and “As Above, So Below,” the band follows the tradition of melodic pop with their catchy “oohs?...