[realshowbiz]

Also a lot of music is loop/clip based (one or more bars of music is a sample by itself) which can be repetitive and exactly in time every time.

My favorite artists find ways to add a lot of variation, even to simple song structures. By including lots of detail, by playing parts by hand, blending electronic and acoustic instruments, etc.

I think music benefits from imperfections here and there.

[eej2ya1K]

Agreed - makes perfect sense, too. In more than one sense, music is about patterns, and part of the draw is the tension between being able to predict what's going to happen and being wrong in the best possible way.

Purely electronic, cleanly gridded music has its charms, but adding those imperfections often helps a lot!