It's at its best on the opening track "Dropping Pennies", with a show-stopping duo for Simcock and vibes-man Jim Hart heard between ticking rhythms and subtle reeds and brass harmonies.
A beat, more like a trudge than a dance, arrived and vanished at will; there were passages of little more than a low but insistent hum, or of ticking, staticky rhythm.
Mr. Oakenfold's set added clacking, ticking cross-rhythms to the basic trance 4/4, worked for a while with a quasi-Arabic melody and acknowledged his elders with his remix of "Planet Rock," Afrika Bambaataa's pioneering electro hip-hop song released in 1982.
But mostly his score relies on abbreviated phrases and simplistic tick-tock rhythms.
As the hours tick by, a rhythm emerges: every few minutes, the next person in line disappears, microphone in hand, through the heavy wooden auditorium door.
Researchers report in today's Science that our internal clock, or circadian rhythm, ticks on a precise 24 hour, 11 minute schedule.
The clocks there seem to tick to a slower rhythm.
The latter view does have its over-zealous adherents, such as the man at the opera who asked me to remove my watch because its tick was out of rhythm.
In the back gallery, three metronomes tick out separate rhythms, and a wall text reads, "The Whole World + The Work = The Whole World".
