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A beat that keeps counting down while the synths fall apart sounds like the perfect way to make entropy feel danceable instead of depressing.

That was the idea really, if everything is falling apart it might as well have a beat you can move to.

That beat counting down while the synths come apart at the seams is a neat way to let the maths of everything falling apart do the talking.

Counting the beat down while everything falls apart felt like the only honest way to make entropy danceable.