Beats
Beats noun - A United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop).
Grooves
Both words in one sentence
- Aside from the typical funk lineup of guitar-bass-drums-keyboards-horn section, string sections were included, and the overall sound was much more poppy, with way simplified beats and grooves.
Source: Funk - Progressing from Kraftwerk's robotic grooves, Atkins and his 1980s electro beats went a long way in defining Techno, as it came to be known.
Source: Music of Note - Rap Metal: Certainly not a full-fledged example by any means, but Gallagher is a big fan of hip-hop and mixes in elements of the genre here and there (his vocals tend to have a rap-like flow, and a good deal of their grooves seem to have been influenced by hip-hop beats).
Source: Music / Dying Fetus
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