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RE: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's
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
>
>
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