Repetitive music
 

Do you enjoy repetitive music?
What's your favorite repetitive band/record.

Sonic Youth, of course.

le fall

yesterday at a rehearsal with one of my new bands we wrote a 15 minute song that all i do is play the e chord over and over again with a few variations.
reptitive music is awesome

Animal Collective's "Visiting Friends" is based on the same concept, one only chord played during 12 minutes, it's actually awesome

Goem
Phillip Jeck
Steve Reich

Loop
Cluster
Om

In general, yes.
My favourite repetitive record might be Tony Conrad & Faust "Outside the dream syndicate"... At least, it is the first to come to my mind at the moment.

ooioo

what would qualify as a repetitive music?

most music is repetetive in some way.

electronic techno msuic is repetetive is a wholly tedious, boring, redundant, easy way.

also, i like the repetitive aspect of many krautrock music... things like "Hallo Gallo", "Ruckzuck", the steady rythm of "It's a rainy day, sunshine girl"... it's the aspect that probably attracted me most to krautrock, all those motorik rythms...

what?

I hear that Awesome Rock Win have a "song" which is all the bassists wailing away on one bass note for 78 minutes - like Rhys Chatham's "Guitar Trio" but with added low-end kickassery.

HE SAYS, HE LIKES THE MOTORIK ASPECT OF KRAUTROCK!

HA!
Cool drawing.

To me , repetition=boredom.
It applies to Earth ( a lot ) , Swans , Zeni Geva .

Yet some repetitive music is cool like the Fall , Loop , Luxurious Bag .

its Jeffery Lewis

here is his low budget video about the fall

Yep , music is repetitive ( except free-jazz maybe ).
The matter is how much repetition can you enjoy/endure ( like the intro of the last song of "Psychic Hearts" ).

hmmm... I also like the repetition in Fela Kuti's music...
and lately i found myself listening to stuff by Ricardo Villalobos that i really liked... like "Fizheuer Zieheuer" which is 70 minutes of repetition...
"repetitive music" is quite a large field, but i guess i'm endurant if that's what you're asking...

WAIT!!! how the fuck did i forget Satie's "Vexations" its this played 840 times!

i think "Sister Ray" was the first song that developed my interest in repetitive music, or at least in elongated tracks with a steady rythms...

Repetition is great when you get the sense that the band are doing it because they're technically challenged. When it's done as 'art' I'm less enthusiastic.

Phillip Glass bores me. Electric Wizard don't.

Lightning bolt's "st. jaques" is pretty lovely, but not maddeningly repetitive. Boredoms Super Roots 3 is also some kick ass repetition. i got my mind set on you. got my mind set on you. got my mind set on you. got my mind set on you. got my mind set on you.

"sister ray" is a great song, but i think the most about her is the noise section, cause in those times was a "little" weird to pop/rock culture of the 60's; and was a great "lesson" for the future "freak musicians" (sorry Mr Reed!)
...and i don't agree with the expression "repetitive music", it's better "experimental music", no?!...for me repetitive music is techno or transe (i hate those sounds)...try to hear
Steve Reich "music for 18 musicians"...it´s not repetitive!!
it's experimental...

I like PIL's THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET

most music is based on repetition.

Reptition at its finest.
Repitition can be good if coupled with brevity, a concept too many groups dont seem to understand (namely rappers)

every single boring ass stupid melodramatic slow jam ballad ever created has the most repetition in it, just endless repeats of high hat taps and soft bass drum kicks and stupid fucking endless long drawn out notes on a violin or a synth keyboard.

fucking hate the slow jams.

Glenn Branca's Structure is my Dad's least favorite song I've played for him. Says it just sounds like an extended build up to nothing.

William Basinski.

guitar trio is my life

I've tried to listen to one of Glenn Branca's symphonies once : one chord played over and over again , I quit after 3 min.

Yeah, of course. Shellac and the Fall and .... actually, most bands are pretty repetetive.

Oh, I guess batreleaser already said that.

William Basinski is my god.

hell yes!

Tortoise.

I listened to TNT the other week for the first time, pretty good.

Yeah, especially the first song, swing from the gutters.

Autechre is repetition at it's most enjoyable. Just music to not focus on, but listen to in a detached way.

Yes.

One of the best albums released in the past 10 years.