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The Weeknd and The Curse of The Drum Machine

I have this irrational hatred of standard, preformed drum beats.

Like the ones that became popularized in the Eighties - you know those synthetic, electronic drum beats that go on and on, with no variation, no exciting fills, no changes of intensity. No humanity, basically. They remind me of the emergence of the synthesizer and how, it seemed back then, that they enabled people with no talent to make music.