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  • adjective music Having no beat.

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beat +‎ -less

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Examples

  • I write music that features little to no drums (consider it "beatless" music); features no vocals; and can sometimes have little to no time structure/rhythm.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2009

  • It'll either be a beatless track or some some soundbwoy-murdering early dancehall tune … It depends on what mood I'm in and what the gig is like, I guess!

    Pangaea: Harangue The DJ 2011

  • Meanwhile, his debut album proper, last year's Rain In England, transcended familiar notions of good and bad, being one of the most peculiar rap albums ever pressed: a beatless, Beat poetry-style set where Lil B, voice a-quiver with earnestness, ponders love, beauty and all the bad things in the world over naïf new-age synth washes.

    Grab your spatula! Could 'based' Lil B be the next big thing? 2011

  • Still hearing there's a good chance Brian Westbrook makes a decision today, and I continue to think his hometown Skins are the team to beatless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®Jason La Canfora

    Brian Westbrook, Redskins still possible, but do they need him? 2010

  • There are a handful of real tech stormers (like "A Roboter"), a handful of really pretty, nearly beatless minimal compositions (see "Awaking Naked"), and another few, like this one, that find the line between the two and hop back and forth between both worlds.

    Slippy (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • There are a handful of real tech stormers (like "A Roboter"), a handful of really pretty, nearly beatless minimal compositions (see "Awaking Naked"), and another few, like this one, that find the line between the two and hop back and forth between both worlds.

    Music (For Robots): July 2005 Archives 2005

  • This one sounds like one long smear of beatless, grooveless atmosphere to me -

    17 dots jayson 2010

  • Although the vapor trails of dub still colour the essence of much of this new material, 'Liumin' is an altogether more 'destroyed' experience than its predecessor, opening with the washed-out, beatless sequence of 'In Echospace', a track that somehow manages to harness the disorientating experience of being a stranger in a strange land, with only the flickering glow of neon lights for company.

    Boomkat: Just arrived 2010

  • We begin all beatless and atmospheric, moving through the Viennese downtempo beauty of Tosca and the haunting acoustic pop of Emiliana Torrini and onwards into Agoria's own blend of operatics and deep electronica on "Altre Voci".

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • While 08's Glider was a masterclass in celestial techno, Irisarri has all but abandoned the muffled kick drum rhythms for this follow-up, instead embracing long-form and largely beatless washes of guitar and electronic drone.

    Drowned In Sound // Feed Joe Marshall 2010

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