RE: loops for dance music & album rec for ALL loopers

["Paul Weissman" <paul@nioterra.com>]

well, there's two ways of looking at it, as far as i can tell... the
structured vs unstructed.

dance music is either:

- anything anyone can dance to, even a little

OR

- a large industry made up of highly specific genres, mostly using rigid or
programmed beats.
house, trance, techno, jungle, breakbeat - with all the myriad of subgenres
therein
AND
hip-hop, dancehall


of course this is most likely an endlessly debatable topic... which isn't
really the point, but is definitely worth defining briefly in order to have
the discussion in the first place.

i was personally mostly interested in those people working in the SECOND
category.  people who feel comfortable performing in between dj sets, or at
an event where people are expecting to dance to your set (club, rave, house
party, festival, etc.)

but hell, it's all interesting!




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Roberts [mailto:cpr@musetrap.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:36 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: RE: loops for dance music & album rec for ALL loopers
>
>
> if I may be so bold, what is 'dance' music? anything with a beat?
> or something
> more specific... :)
>
> -cpr
>
> >-- Original Message --
> >From: "Paul Weissman" <paul@nioterra.com>
> >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> >Subject: loops for dance music & album rec for ALL loopers
> >Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:27:06 -0700
> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> >
> >
> >
> >ok, i'm gonna bite... how many people on the list use their looping 
>tools
> >to
> >make dance music?
> >
> >and while i'm talking about dance music, i seriously consider richie
> >hawtin's latest album release 'DE9: Closer To The Edit' to be a 
>wonderful
> >example of how looping can be used creatively.  he takes a whole stack
> of
> >techno records, edits them down to small loops and recombines them into
> a
> >mix that moves so quickly from song to song, you hardly get a chance to
> >notice where loops start and stop.  definitely minimal, definitely
> >listenable, definitely cool.  check it out.
> >
> >richie was (don't know about now) a heavy repeater user.
> >
> >paul
> >
> >
>
>
>