It can go wrong... or at least considerably less right then the above video.
YouTube - Dev - Booty Bounce!
When I finally looked up the G6 thing all these songs started making much more sense to me as well.(It's used all over the place.) The other thing I ended up looking up was the 808 which references the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TR-808 the first drum machine they used to make songs like this.