v1 sounded traditional because it was structurally traditional: a wandering improvised line with fuzz on top. That is a taksim, not a riff. v2 is built the other way round — a fixed figure that locks and repeats, bass doubling it, a rock kit on the aksak, and phaser and wah in the chain.
Headphones or real speakers. Laptop speakers cut everything below 200 Hz, which is most of what makes fuzz sound like fuzz.
A/B this. Riff builds one figure and repeats it. Taksim is the v1 behaviour — a random walk through the makam. Same scale, same chain, same drums. The difference is structure alone.
Gold = the accented first beat of each rhythmic group. Pink = the other notes. Empty = a rest. Hit New riff for a different figure in the same makam.
Phaser and wah are the additions. Contemporary accounts of the genre describe the amplified saz as running through phaser, wah and fuzz together — v1 had only the fuzz, which is a large part of why it sounded dry and folkloric.
Click, or the keyboard row A S D F G H J K. Hold Shift for the octave above.