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Hello, It's my first post (even if I registered to the mailing list 5 months ago), so I'd like to introduce myself: I'm a (non professional) bassist from Milan, Italy. In the last 9 years I played mostly blues and rock-blues, then I started being interested in ambient dub after reading an article in Bass Player magazine about Bill Laswell. At the same time I found loopers-delight, I appreciated the perfect mix between the importance given to the conceptual aspects of looping and the discussion about technical aspects. Looking for looping bassists I found Steve Lawson's incredible website and this helped me to decide to buy an akay headrush and trying to become a looping bassist. My actual gear is: Basses: Fender Mexican Jazz Bass Laurus (an Italian Luthier) Stylist 4 string Bass '71 Gibson EB-2 Washburn AB-20 defretted My effect chain is: Bass -> EBS BassIQ -> Tech21 Bass Compactor -> EBS Multidrive -> Akai Headrush -> Rolls DI -> Behringer Mixer -> IBM Thinkpad (as recording unit). I never used any looping device live, but the looping concept hit me so hard I decided to give up my actual rock-blues band and concentrate on the musical and conceptual aspects of looping. After this (long) presentation (I couldn't resist talking about myself and my gear), this is my question: How do you approach looping composition? I'd like to create some composition and a little repertoire, as I'd like to try some bass looping busking. When I try to compose something, I start with some simple riff, then I add some layer, but soon I've the impression of overplaying and messing up everything. I think that I'm focusing too much on the looping paradigm, and I lose the musical inspiration. Another disturbing thing is that I tend to answer and react to the loops I create filling every silent part producing a strong anxiety impression in what I play. I know composing is a very personal matter, but I hope to get some suggestions from you experienced loopers. cristian