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

["Chris Roberts" <cpr@musetrap.com>]

Paul,

 In that case, I play some of both 1 and 2.. hehe... I mean, my focus in
'dynamics', so, in general, my set might not work for the catagory you were
asking about, in that I may very well go from a techno-ish beat into some
totally spaced out ambient feel... But, in the breadth of what I am doing,
extremely danceable beats, synth lines, etc, happen... :) I have considered
working on creating sets that are completely dance oriented, and looking
for gigs doing what you are talking about, but, I've not gone there yet...

-cpr

>-- Original Message --
>From: "Paul Weissman" <paul@nioterra.com>
>To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Subject: RE: loops for dance music & album rec for ALL loopers
>Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:04:43 -0700
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.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
>> >
>> >
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