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You know, if you put a little piece of green tape over the red part of your geek-o-meter, everything will be just fine! > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Flint [SMTP:kflint@annihilist.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 1997 11:39 AM > To: Tom Attix > Subject: On being complete nerds > > once again, Looper's Delight is pushing the geek-o-meter way into the >red. > Now I certainly deserve some of the blame, but even I reach my limits >with > endless babbling about this and that feature about whatever the latest > gadget is. Now I know you're all capable of much more enlightened > conversation, so let's have it! > > 1. How about this: What are the approaches you take improvisationally / > compositionally in creating and building a loop? Is there a structure to > it > all? And leave the gear specifics out! > > > 2. Top 10 lists are lame, I know. But I am really fascinated by the way > this list brings together people with quite different musical backgrounds > and styles. We're using similar techniques to create totally different > kinds of music. Rather than babbling about which delay pedal we use, I'd > like to hear more about the diversity of styles and interests that we are > all pursuing. I think there is a lot to learn from people doing things > that > are different from what we do, yet somehow still similar; it opens up new > ideas to bring back to our own music. One cheap and easy way to get a > picture of musical interests is current listening habits, so toss in a > list > of the cds/tapes/tracks, whatever that you're listening to! For me, the > stuff I'm listening to is always the stuff I've recently bought, because > my > attention span is only a few seconds long and I get bored with stuff very > fast. A few things will hang around longer, that usually means I really > like it. Anyway, in no order, here's some interesting music I've listened > to lately, with no commentary since I don't have that much time: > > Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst > Paul D. Miller - Viral Sonata (that's the guy who's aka dj spooky doing > an > ambient album) > Meat Beat Manifesto - subliminal sandwich > dj krush - Meiso > Grooverider Presents: The Prototype Years > Photek - Modus Operandi > Metalheadz - Platinum Breakz > Squarepusher - hard normal daddy > dj dara - rinsimus maximus > Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante > voivod - nothing face > Miles Davis - 4+More (miles, george coleman, ron carter, herbie hancock, > tony williams, tony was only 18, and it just rips....) > suicidal tendancies - the art of rebellion (good punk metal nostalgia > kick...) > Tom Rupolo - Loop 7 (tom is just a guy on the list who sent me a >tape, > nice loungy trip-hop something, dripping with fender rhodes...) > > anyway, comment freely.... > > > kim > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html > http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com > >