I'm still interested in keeping 'em moving on the dance floor, so I don't
want to get too cerebral with the metres. I'm not really looking for things
in 17/8 and whatnot. That's good for the chillout room. I've got plenty of
chillout room stuff that goes through dizzying metrical changes. (I can
write that stuff at the drop of a hat.) What I'm looking for is that the
phraselengths vary. Poems get pretty boring if they're in iambic pentameter
all the time, you know, even though that's the easiest to write English in.
Good example is if you're moving along in 4/4 and each number represents how
many bars you have of your repetitive phrase ....
8-8-8-9
8-7.5-8-7.5 (you have to switch to 2/4 for the .5's)
8-8-8-5 bar break-8-8-8-6 bar break, etc.
and there are a million different ways I could do this. I don't consciously
think about doing it this way; it just happens, but the point is that it
FEELS right.
Their argument is that if I do things like this with the number of bars of
4/4, then DJ's won't want to play it because they won't be able to sync up
to it. My counter argument is that a) a good DJ is going to know the track
he wants to play inside and out before he starts fucking with it, b)if we
keep changing this around, our tracks are going to stay fresh for some time
to come, c) if the track's phat enough they'll play it coast to coast if
they don't feel like dealing with the phrasing.
thanks
k.