Backed by a pair of drummers and by Mariee Sioux, an occasional backup singer and frequent dog-petter who sat in the middle of the stage, Nathan Shineywater and Rachael Hughes built a series of evolving grooves: basic chord progressions from her keyboard; simple, woozy lines from his slide guitar; shuffling rhythms underneath.

The Jordan band also dropped the shuffling rhythm of the Eddie Williams original, accelerating the pace into a raucous, rowdy jump boogie-woogie arrangement.

And behind me, those steps echoed to perfection the sharp shuffling rhythm of my fall.

They were sometimes joined by another friend, Samuel Daniel, known as Sandman because of the shuffling rhythms he made with his feet on a wooden board sprinkled with sand.

Gabriel's feet had found a shuffling rhythm.

The disc's centerpiece is "Synchro System," a revelatory 18-minute composition based on a shuffling rhythm and casual call-and-response vocals.

He almost never resorts to typical four-beat jazz patterns, preferring the unmoored waves of triplets in Elvin Jones's vocabulary and the voluptuous, shuffling rhythms of 1970's funk.

Instead of apeing US styles, London-born Jazzie (nee Beresford Romeo) and sidekick Nellee Hooper introduced a distinctly British sound whose shuffling rhythms and spacious production owed much to reggae and their years deejaying at warehouse parties.

"Shake 'Em on Down", "with its shuffling rhythms and risqué lyric", was recorded by White on vocal and guitar with an unidentified second guitarist.

Luke lost his shuffling rhythm and fumbled with the deck.