Why does house music have that long break in the middle?
I like to go out clubbing. I even used to be a DJ. Now days most clubs play house or dance music most of the time. I suppose its the most popular genre of music for this decade. A far as clubbing goes anyway. I don't mind house/dance music, for the most part it's pretty good and the genre tends to be able to keep a steady pace so you keep dancing longer. Except! when all of a sudden half way through the song there's a break and the beat practically stops and it goes pretty quiet. Come on! What's the point of that! Just picture this scene: music is loud, dance floor is pumping, everybody's in the groove then suddenly the beat all but completely disappears leaving just a trace of the song somewhere in the background like elevator music. You can now pretty much hear everything else that's going on in the club, everyone looks at each other and for the next 20sec (or how ever long the break lasts) or so we all start looking for ways to look cool because you can't dance like you did during the rest of the song unless you wanna risk looking like a social retard. And then the break is done and the song resumes it's normal pace and everybody starts dancing like monkey's in heat again. Come on Mr.DJ-record producer-composer-or whatever, keep the breaks to a minimum. What exactly are we supposed to do with 20sec or so of elevator music when we're all pumped up? Are we supposed to rush to the bar to get another drink during this time or is that when we're all supposed to turn to the DJ and pay homage?
I would think that trance/house/dance music is produced for the pill popping crowd. I've had the chance to attend a rave before, and I watched everyone around me, completely oblivious to their surroundings, devoured by whatever the substance that they were on at that moment.
The breaks are for them! Ever seen someone with his eyes closed, bobbing his head, hand limply held in the air (in an effort to emphasise the beat of the music, although it's one of those breaks with really distant music)? An if you notice, these sorts of music generally tend to pick up speed from one of those breaks, easing the trancees back into the full pump and body of the beat.
It's all just hype for those under the influence. Alcohol alone however, does not permit you to react that way though.
But for me, I can appreciate those breaks, (I might suffer from a cardiac arrest otherwise) plus the way some of the good stuff dips down into those breaks and then gradually picks-up again, is so artisticly done that you somehow feel that the music that had been pounding in your head, suddenly strats trickling down your being and then creeps right back up again to continues pumping through your head!
I gotta admit - that does give me a natural high - with minimal alcohol in take too.
