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Dallaire is beginning to talk about broadcasts from the "Hutu Power" extremist radio station, RTML. It began an escalating campaign of ethnic hatred mixed with African Rock. The station became enormously popular. I wonder if any of the African Rock had the seven-cycles-per-second beat needed to induce a trance-like state.

This pattern has been identified in many altered-state inducing shamanic rituals. It is the common theme among them which seems most likely to account for the altered-states. Similar knowledge has been used in creating a variety of commercially available light-and-sound devices to alter brain waves.

I imagine most of African Rock would not have had that, but perhaps some did. I am not at this time so interested in it that I would go to the International Music Store and try to find a sample. If any of you knows whether Rwandan Rock used that percussion pattern, please let me know.