RE: Who's on the forefront of loopmuse?

[jprice@intcpi.com (John Price)]

It aint Prodigy nor is it Photek and its not Babyface.

It walks a lot of lines but its more a less quirky & groove oriented PoP 
>from an African American Perspective that's perhaps more flexible than 
folks might initially imagine.

My group is called Akash - just me and whoever I can get to collaborate. I 
live in Downtown Philly. 

I play guitar, bass and some keys. but Im more of a beat Looper and 
arranger more than anything else these days.

I run an ASR 10 w/ 16megs ram 273 seconnds of sample time !! More than I 
ever end up using !! The ASR  has a lot of Great and edit friendly effects 
builtin too - just no rom based samples.  

I usually make my own samples from either the guitar & bass that I run 
thru 2 Zooms MEP's - the 505 w/vol/exp controller and the 508 w/ a stereo 
split sent to a Mackie 1202 then rerun thru a Boss Rack Mount Delay that I 
cant seem to remember the name of... The DE 2 or somethin ??? 

I pull WAV files of the Net from free dwnload sites for other preset 
tones. 

I have not really had the need to steal beats or use Sample Disc's. ( 
Though Im in no ways against doing that - its fun to try and create or 
duplicate a sound you like on your own because often it takes you and your 
music in a different direction than what it initially was you thought you 
needed. Often times I come up with sounds I like better than the one I 
wanted to sample - Its just very time consuming but worth every ounce of 
scrutiny ya put into it ) 

I do ok with the rythms (spelling?? ) I make just sequencing them as I go 
along and Loooping them endlessly at some points adding effects or 
sometimes just going with a dry sound.

I use Cakewalk as a Sequencer and record straight to hard disk. Ive been 
saving and dreaming of The VS-880 w/ cd burner and add on effects board . 
After taxes this yr one of those chumpys is gonna be in my hands.  

No amps, just PA Speakers ASR - It's a product more associated with DJ's  
than flesh and Blood musicians but They sound great ( They're not Ensoniq 
products)

I try to keep things simple but expressive and groveful ( Mantra - All 
effort goes into da groove out of it and back again! ) and somewhat 
engaging from an hopefully original perspective.

I also try to have a sense of restraint with just enuff room for chaos to 
sneak in every now and then.

I always loved the Frippy Stuff, Crimson, ENO, Phillip Glass and Laurie 
Anderson along with LTD, Eath Wind and Fire and Weater Report and Mingus 
and The Sugarhill Gang - and The Sex Pistols
Growing up in the 80's - it was all natural. 

I was drawn to the site for reasons concerning tech, Musical inspiration, 
expansion of influencesall across the board. 

I aint no star. The odds are agianst me in that area. But who says I cant 
do what I need to do and exist and perhaps thrive and enjoy life.

That's what I do.

JP

-----Original Message-----
From:   Kim Flint [SMTP:kflint@annihilist.com]
Sent:   Thursday, February 05, 1998 5:18 AM
To:     Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
Subject:        RE: Who's on the forefront of loopmuse?

At 11:32 AM -0500 2/4/98, John Price wrote:
>I kinda until like, maybe 3mos ago perceived this site as a home for
>classic loopers.
>
>Clearly, its more diverse than that. But I did think at first that
>everyone was either a guitar player or a violinist or an Analog Synth
>Looper  doin the Ambient thang. ( Nothin wrong with any of that )
>
>Assumptions are always fatal.

hey, what sorts of things do you do?

kim



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