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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Monday, 13 February, 2006 08:16 AM Subject: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's > Hi Loopers, > > Every now and then we discuss ideas for the Looper's Delight Essential > Listening section. It's that time again! > > The last time we discussed this was in 2003, and a lot of great > recommendations came out of that discussion. At that time we tried to > focus on the 1990's. I've finally incorporated those listening > recommendations into the latest incarnation of the Essential Listening > Loopography: > > http://www.loopers-delight.com/loopography/Records.html > > If you haven't been there recently, check it out. I've added a bunch of > new entries based on submissions from many of you. > > This time around, I'd like to focus on the 1980's. What were the >essential > recordings from the 1980's that every looper ought to listen to? Please > propose your ideas and let's discuss it! Please include a paragraph or >two > about why you think that recording is essential for looping. > > So, what makes something an essential recording for looping? There are >no > hard and fast guidelines. > > They might be recordings where new ideas or techniques in looping were > first introduced, or where looping was first heard in a type of music > where it hadn't been used before, or with an instrument where it hadn't > been used before, or recordings/artists that influenced a lot of people >to > become interested in looping or expand their abilities as loopers, or > simply a perfect example of looping from a legendary looping artist. > > Another thing we learned in 2003 is that proposing yourself as essential > probably won't go over very well. :-) > > Also, there were several good recommendations made last time where >nobody > supplied a good review paragraph to go with it. I still need somebody to > write a good review about why these albums are essential for looping: > Robert Fripp - Let the Power Fall (1981) I'll do my best! Didn't anyone submit "Under Heavy Manners/God Save the King/Queen"? > Please help me out with that if you are familiar with these albums! > > You may be interested in reading some of the 2003 discussion on this if > you weren't around for it, it is quite amusing: > >http://www.loopers-delight.com/cgi-bin/wilma_glimpse/LDarchive?query=essential&Search=Search&restricttofiles=on&filelist=200307&filelist=200306&errors=0&maxfiles=1000&maxlines=10&.cgifields=lineonly&.cgifields=restricttofiles&.cgifields=filelist&.cgifields=partial&.cgifields=case > > Ok, discuss! > > kim > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > > > > >