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Music before quantization:

                soul | soulless
    listenable ______|_________
  unlistenable       |

Music after quantization:

                     | soulless
    listenable       |_________

Hmm, this “net improvement” of yours seems to have obliterated some important categories. I don’t think I care for it.

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Here's a musical performance that I think could be defended as possessing 'soul': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa-FI9exq8o .

Does it bother you that the drumline consists of two bars recorded on a synthesizer and then repeated over and over again with inhuman, flawless precision for the entire duration of the song?

Recorded on a synthesizer/loop machine by a person imperfectly hitting the pads, then repeated while two humans imperfectly sing and play instruments with the backing drum loop. It's not the same thing at all.

A lot of electronic music is also someone sitting on a loop machine and "playing" their samples.

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