This sentence should have read "repetition" and not "variance":
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Especially in electronic stuff
(as it tends to rely heavily on variance in many cases),
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I hate it when that happens.
Oh one more thing (and example, really) - if anyone's ever gotten into drone, that makes the point very clearly. It's quite alluring once you get into it, but sounds quite 'unintelligible' if you haven't. I think maybe some of this speaks to the divide (for lack of better terms) between idm purists and people who have no aversion to the "d" in idm. Thing is, an AE track sounds "all the same" to people unused to it - possibly because of the similarity of the sounds and not the specific patterns of their employ. How "random" is sequencing which is generated by a machine programmed to sequence randomly? (another fun worm-can).
jeff