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Hi there i don't know how much actual looping there was some would be looped and some midi'd but I found that Michael brook live at the Aquariam was a watershed moment for me. Graham Stuart >From: Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >Subject: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's >Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:16:52 -0800 > >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) >David Torn - Tripping over God (1995) >David Torn - What Means 'Solid', Traveller? (1996) >Andre LaFosse - Normalized (2003) > >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