[botkiller]

well, UW uses a piece of their songs on other songs almost consistently - you can pick out many parts of songs as you go thru them, such as "Tin There", which is not so much a remix of pearl's girl, as much as a re-do, and has a lot of pieces of PG in it. They use the same ride cymbal tempo a lot- and of course their arpeggios are quite often a bit the same, though with changed sounds/more filter/etc.

I think that also when you make electronic music - and I'm sure some of you can back me up here - you end up re-using things because sometimes it's just too much to be coming up with a brand-new drum piece and everything else every time. I mean, let's face it, a lot of "traditional" music uses the same pieces all the time, it's the structure and melody which give a song it's new face. How many punk songs have the exact same drum phrasing in them?

Well, lots.
I think Our brain form a view of what music is and we expect certain things at certain times - kind of like you know that every 16 bars, something's going to change, on average. So when something does that differently, it throws us off. This does not apply to UW material per se, but I think that it shows that we get used to a specific sound and then we pick up on it in all forms of music from there on out. We go into a lot of listening looking for that comfort spot that we use to carry us through the song, dance to it, anything like that.

Anyway, just my thought. It's a very good observation though, Denkbat.