jack all the rage in dance music
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What was once considered a dance music sub-genre has become a staple production format for most popular styles of dance music. In late 2007, a certain progression of production style was infiltrating electro, house, progressive, breaks, trance and other styles of dance music - this foreign invader was none other than jack. So, you might ask - what is jack? Well, simply put, jack is when the primary beat of a dance music song is paired with another beat element that seems to throw the timing off for a split second - therefore, it ‘jacks‘. While dance music is normally constructed in fourths, a jack element is usually found in the thirds and/or sixteenths. The funky off-kilter timing method is not new to dance music and most-likely got its start in the timing methods used by hard bop jazz drummers in the 1960’s, then pushed into the frontiers of funk in the 1970’s.
One thing is for certain - nothing jump-starts a dancefloor or spills a drink like a jacked out beat.
Corporately created pop music always follows underground dance music trends, so be sure to listen for ‘jack’ beats showing up in the pop music of 2009! And when it does, you heard it here first at BitsofBeats.com!