Flipper beats were apparent in the acceleration signals as an oscillating pattern being simultaneously present on both axes, with each propulsive stroke recorded on the heaving axis resulting in a forward acceleration recorded on the surging axis.
The result was a propulsive, electronic disco record with an unmistakable snarl.
The whole time, we're wondering if that propulsive sound that carried the record up to this point will return.
But the particular glory of this recording is the propulsive and precisely colored playing of the Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble.
His latest mix CD is "Selection 3" (www.traumschallplatten.de), a hazy but propulsive compilation of tracks from his record label Trapez.
Some of the songs are numbers that Antibalas has played for years but never got around to recording, like "Sáré Kon Kon," with its propulsive, hypnotic bass line, while others were written and recorded on the spot, in one case in a little more than three hours.
Around the same time, he also released a recording that brought together a probing, propulsive reading of Beethoven's Sonata in C minor (Op. 111) with his own bleak "Winter Meditation".
(Chinen) NEW HORIZON (Monday) A benefit for the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, with performances by two fairly recent alumni now signed to Blue Note Records: the pianist Robert Glasper, leading his propulsive trio, and the multi-instrumentalist Greg Kurstin, with his tongue-in-cheek pop duo Bird and the Bee.
On it, the group — which includes Bob Hardy on bass and Paul Thomson on drums — aimed away from the wry, propulsive post-punk that defined its first two records and made its global 2004 hit, "Take Me Out," an unlikely stadium anthem; even the Yankees used it.
The video cameras strapped to each subject were aimed either forward to record head movements or backward to track propulsive movements of flukes or hind flippers.
