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It aint Prodigy nor is it Photek and its not Babyface. It walks a lot of lines but its more a less quirky & groove oriented PoP >from an African American Perspective that's perhaps more flexible than folks might initially imagine. My group is called Akash - just me and whoever I can get to collaborate. I live in Downtown Philly. I play guitar, bass and some keys. but Im more of a beat Looper and arranger more than anything else these days. I run an ASR 10 w/ 16megs ram 273 seconnds of sample time !! More than I ever end up using !! The ASR has a lot of Great and edit friendly effects builtin too - just no rom based samples. I usually make my own samples from either the guitar & bass that I run thru 2 Zooms MEP's - the 505 w/vol/exp controller and the 508 w/ a stereo split sent to a Mackie 1202 then rerun thru a Boss Rack Mount Delay that I cant seem to remember the name of... The DE 2 or somethin ??? I pull WAV files of the Net from free dwnload sites for other preset tones. I have not really had the need to steal beats or use Sample Disc's. ( Though Im in no ways against doing that - its fun to try and create or duplicate a sound you like on your own because often it takes you and your music in a different direction than what it initially was you thought you needed. Often times I come up with sounds I like better than the one I wanted to sample - Its just very time consuming but worth every ounce of scrutiny ya put into it ) I do ok with the rythms (spelling?? ) I make just sequencing them as I go along and Loooping them endlessly at some points adding effects or sometimes just going with a dry sound. I use Cakewalk as a Sequencer and record straight to hard disk. Ive been saving and dreaming of The VS-880 w/ cd burner and add on effects board . After taxes this yr one of those chumpys is gonna be in my hands. No amps, just PA Speakers ASR - It's a product more associated with DJ's than flesh and Blood musicians but They sound great ( They're not Ensoniq products) I try to keep things simple but expressive and groveful ( Mantra - All effort goes into da groove out of it and back again! ) and somewhat engaging from an hopefully original perspective. I also try to have a sense of restraint with just enuff room for chaos to sneak in every now and then. I always loved the Frippy Stuff, Crimson, ENO, Phillip Glass and Laurie Anderson along with LTD, Eath Wind and Fire and Weater Report and Mingus and The Sugarhill Gang - and The Sex Pistols Growing up in the 80's - it was all natural. I was drawn to the site for reasons concerning tech, Musical inspiration, expansion of influencesall across the board. I aint no star. The odds are agianst me in that area. But who says I cant do what I need to do and exist and perhaps thrive and enjoy life. That's what I do. JP -----Original Message----- From: Kim Flint [SMTP:kflint@annihilist.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 1998 5:18 AM To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com Subject: RE: Who's on the forefront of loopmuse? At 11:32 AM -0500 2/4/98, John Price wrote: >I kinda until like, maybe 3mos ago perceived this site as a home for >classic loopers. > >Clearly, its more diverse than that. But I did think at first that >everyone was either a guitar player or a violinist or an Analog Synth >Looper doin the Ambient thang. ( Nothin wrong with any of that ) > >Assumptions are always fatal. hey, what sorts of things do you do? 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