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An interesting nuance of this is dance music, where the orinals can be 7 minutes long with 60+ second intros of just percussion and little musical interest, des
by ehnto 3y ago
An interesting nuance of this is dance music, where the orinals can be 7 minutes long with 60+ second intros of just percussion and little musical interest, designed to make them mixable for DJs in clubs.
The core of the song may only be 3 minutes, and that is what you get in radio edits. Half my bought music collection comes from when I DJd, and you can't really throw the full length songs on shuffle else you'd spend all your time listening to minute long intros and outros.
- tomduncalf 3y agoI seem to recall reading somewhere that this structure is becoming less common (in some subgenres of dance music at least) because everyone now DJs on CDJs where it’s trivial to loop the intro and control when the song drops in (and use EQ/filter), rather than relying on a long intro with elements coming in.