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Primary School

by Roland Oakes

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about

A study of acid house and prime numbers.

The recordings you will find here celebrate the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13, although not in that order. You’ll have to do the counting for yourself.

Conventional wisdom states that dance music should be in 4/4 and that it should be possible to dance to it neatly, even when throwing shapes.

This study explores the possibility that dance music, specifically 80s acid house, can be made using far less conventional time signatures which can lead to far more interesting dancing, however untidy it may be.

The challenge was to make these rhythms sound and feel natural and danceable. You will be the judge of whether this has been achieved.
Primary School features programmed patterns and live jamming on a physical analogue bassline synth (one of the more popular 303 clones) and on an analogue drum machine. Dancing was required for success in this phase of the recording. Further playing, programming, sequencing and sampling was then undertaken in a digital environment which required more patience and less dancing.

No children were harmed in the completion of this study, although there are a couple of children who are a bit tired of hearing the results now.

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released June 19, 2026

Q7 with Roland Oakes - wormholeworld.substack.com/p/q7-with-roland-oakes

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