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>If anything, this process has expanded my thinking about 
>melody/sound, and it's starting to affect my bass playing in my 
>punk/garage/pop band. Guitarist/songwriter: "Ed, the note(s) you're 
>playing are not even in the chord I'm on, but hm.. still sounds 
>good.." 

Just as every generation thinks they invented sex and having fun... it seems 
this revelation of playing chords over non-chordal bass tones comes a big 
revelation. In Bach's day this was called "pedal point". This is VERY common 
in pop songs too .. ergo ... "the slash chords"... 

C/E and C/G are chordal, but C/A makes it a "A min 7".  C/F makes it a "F 9 
no 3rd". C/Bb is an inverted C7. And the other variations are more and more 
obscure chords.

Actually what you are talking about is 'linear writing' rather than chordal. 
Bach and various pop music is written on lines. There are many pieces of 
music written by interleaving lines which touch upon harmonic resonance but 
are not formed by chords to begin with.

So there is absolutely nothing new about this ... other than the cool 
beats....and altough I like it.... I feel dissappointed with much of it - too 
monotonous and lacking in ideas. 

It will have to evolve into something else. It doesn't have enough meat to 
survive as is.