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I love Reich's "Drumming."
Ah, the sublime twinkly incandescence of the bubbling marimbas and
glockenspiels. The slow build...the chiming ethereal trance.
Fits right in with a critical IDM concept....the gradual shifting and
building of instrumental timbres over consistently repeated rhythmic phrases.
Here, the time signatures may also possess fluidity, in an ordered,
evolving, fractal-mathematical pattern. And the rhythms slide precision
phase in a pleasing tickly beautiful way.
- Fred