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Hi Folks, Just added myself and the Canterbury Musicians (well some of them) to the looperlist.... < http://www.musart.co.uk/ > MUSART Hugh Hopper and the rest of the SOFT MACHINE of the time have just released a previously unavailable recording 'Spaced' from 1968, featuring a tape looping extravaganza: Recorded at a primeval 'multi-media' event live at the Roundhouse in London. < http://www.musart.co.uk/tree.htm > We are-in the Canterbury Music scene; all loopers of old (except myself ; Mark Hewins; I'm jung). Daevid Allen(Gong) was at it in 1962 with Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine) and all those looping dudes of old! A seamless 35 year history! Dating from almost before I was born! Some of the Musicians in the Canterbury scene have been using tape loops; and other esoteric bits of gear to make new sounds; since at least the mid 60's and early '70's are: Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Dave Stewart, Pip Pyle, Dave Sinclair, Kevin Ayers, Lol Coxhill, Phil Miller, Steve Hillage, Richard Sinclair, < http://www.musart.co.uk/muso1.htm > The list carries on and I'm lucky; the heritage trickles down to me.... I now have an old Revox B77 MkII that I use for tape echo and looping only... (Back to the dark ages? I think not) Soft Machine are the ones who supported Pink Floyd when Floyd were still playing 'pop' tunes.... Funny that!... Then as a band they discovered accessable popalooping for making money! The Canterbury boys, from the 'Wilde Flowers' onwards, actually made what was a shift from 'solo' Looping/Improvisation into a group form, dependant on their own Inter/Improvisational skills (considerable). With AMM, And especially Keith Rowe (whom it is also my luck to know well) you had the 'first' ^_^ electric 'Improvised Music' band, but with Soft Machine the Music became known artistically to a world audience. For Pink Floyd it became a financial carreer possibility. All of us working in this area should acknowledge the contribution these gifted experimenters gave us. BTW They all worked with each other at some point too.... A fine example! P&L>M MARK HEWINS < http://www.musart.co.uk/hewins.htm > (try the new CHORD PICKER) < http://www.musart.co.uk/chords.htm > OR MUSART - THE CANTERBURY SCENE MUSICIANS http://www.musart.co.uk/ 300+webpages - over 10,000 hits a week ********************************************* Subscribe to "What's Rattlin'" the weekly CANTERBURY MUSIC ON-LINE NEWSLETTER ***************** *********** bigbang@mail.alpes-net.fr (with the message-subscribe) ************* ************ THE EMBRYONIC, 'SOUND SERVER' < http://www.musart.co.uk/fram/samfram.htm > ************* ************ WHAT'S RATTLIN' ? BACK ISSUES - ONLINE ARCHIVE (MUSART) < http://www.musart.co.uk/watrat/watrat.htm > **********************************************