A Rhythm Hook Is the Baller Hook

I would like to direct your attention, dear reader, to three excellent electronic drum pieces, the first of which you’ll know for sure. “Shout” by Tears for Fears, which is largely the Linn drum. You have really done something if you have a distinguished rhythmic opening to your song, which everyone can recognize, and everyone can recognize this instantly. It’s such at the heart of anyone who grew up in that time. I honestly could put it on a loop and mow the yard to it. I think I subconsciously reference it, if not daily, for sure weekly. Making a musical or melodic hook is something, but making a memorable rhythmic hook—it’s mammalian. The second is more modern. It’s a remix of an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song from their first record. It’s called “Almost.” Not one that I was very familiar with until Vince Clarke did a remix. And it may be my favorite electronic song of any kind of modern era, or certainly an era where I can kind of not get my memories and emotions and…