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Hear! Hear! That was a fine bit of music! ~Tim > [Original Message] > From: <graham.maureen@sympatico.ca> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Date: 2/13/2006 6:18:34 PM > Subject: 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=essent ial&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 > > > > > >______________________________________________________________________ > >Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > >kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com >