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Re: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's
----- 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
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
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