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okay, this will obviously keep morphing a bit, but obvious ommissions to the lower list would have to be: Steve Lawson (the UK solo bassist) and Luis Angulo (Mexican/US/German looping guitarist who has hosted festivals in Mexico, Southern California and Radolfzell/Konstanz in the south of Germany). Tim Reynolds (American multi-instrumentalist) as always, please forgive any brain farts. I'm really not an exclusive, judgemental person. I'm just trying to get this together for journalists. there have also been some people who I've never heard of but obviously have a large following regionally in different countries (Markus Reuter, Dosh, Yoav,etc.). Someone also mentioned Brian Eno, but really, I have never been aware that he was using live looping with the excpetion of his work with Robert Fripp early on. Am I mistaken because he'd definitely qualify as a famous looper if he is , indeed using live looping methods in his composition. yours, with ultimate respect to everyone, Rick LIST OF FAMOUS LIVE LOOPING ARTISTS TERRY RILEY ROBERT FRIPP ADRIAN BELEW BILL FRISSEL DAVID TORN EBERHARD WEBER ARILD ANDERSEN KELLAR WILLIAMS EDDIE VEDDER (Pearl Jam) IMOGEN HEAP THOMAS DOLBY JON BRION JOHN SCOFIELD PHIL MANZENARA KID BEYOND (aka Andrew Chaikin) beatboxing all acapella live looping show is really attracting attention) ROB MASSIE (of 808 State) STEVE ROACH ROBERT RICH MATMOS HENRY KAISER in our own community (and I include these names as people who seem to be prominent in the community and/or people who have done a lot of work promoting live looping by having larger looping festivals. This is, of course, off the top of my head. Have I missed people in this list? My apologies if I have. MATTHIAS GROB (inventor of the Pardis delay which became the Gibson Echoplex EDP with loop IV) KIM FLINT (American guitarist and founder of LOOPERS DELIGHT, the mecca live looping website on the planet) ANDRE LAFOSSE (American guitar) CLAUDE VOIT (Swiss guitar) ANDY BUTLER (British guitar) STEVE LAWSON (British bassist) BILL WALKER (American guitarist) PER BOYSEN (Swedish multi instrumentalist-popularizer of live looping in his country-founder of the 1st and 2nd SWEDISH LIVE LOOPING FESTIVALs) SUNAO INAMI (Japanese keyboardist/composer-popularizer of live looping in his country- founder for the LOOPERS DELIGHT J live looping festivals) ERDEM HELVACIOGLU (Turkish composer/guitarist) BERNHARD WAGNER (Swiss guitarist - popularizer of live looping in his country and founder of the 1st INTERNATIONAL LOOP FESTIVAL ZURICH) ANDREW OSTLER (British electronic composer - popularizer of live looping in his country-founder of the CAMBRIDGE LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL series) MASSIMO LIVERANI (ITALIAN guitarist - popularizer of live looping in his country-founder of the 1st FIRENZE LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL) MICHAEL PETERS (German experimental artist/guitarist - popularizer of live looping in his country) LEANDER REININGHAUS (German guitarist - popularizer of live looping in his country-founder of the BERLIN LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL series) LUIS ANGULO (Mexican/American/German guitarist - 1st Northern Mexcio loopfestival and loop fests in Radolfzell/Konstanz in Southern Germany). MICHAEL KLOBUCHAR (American guitarist and founder of the Chain Tape Collective which was influential to the community from the early days of Loopers Delight until the present) HANS LINDAUER (American electronic music/bassist- who started the influential LOOPSTOCKHAUSEN festivals) RAINER STRASCHILL (German guitarist - popularizer of the KKYBERJAM live looping movement) KRISPEN HARTUNG (American avant garde guitarist - popularizer of the live looping and founder of the BOISE EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL) RANDOLF ARRIOLA (who is in the process of creating the first Singapore Live Looping Festival) and all the loopers who produced small one off live looping festivals in their respective countries: