Headnodic beats

[prog]

mrmorse pointed to the Pandora FAQ in a comment on my previous post. If you do a text search for "vamp" you'll be at the top of an interesting little glossary of (mainly popular-)music-theory terminology that Pandora uses in its song-taxonomy.

The term "headnodic beats" reminds me of the crowd from this 1970 TV-concert video of a very young Kraftwerk, even though its tempo may be too fast to qualify as such. (I have probably embedded this same video before, but why not do it again. It's fun.)

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[misuba.livejournal.com]

Dude. The musicians staring at their equipment and barely moving, the crowd standing and staring and sometimes wiggling their heads in time... right down to the music and tempo, this is in fact very reminiscent of every DJ set I've ever been to.