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The First Day, and Damage. as both of them demonstrate, most amazing, and very tasteful imcorporation of ambient looping with rhythm, -looping in a live situation, and looping in context of song structure and vocals. <smile> I'll write something better later, K? lol! Smiles, Cara At 01:15 PM 6/24/03 -0700, you wrote: >At 04:09 AM 6/21/2003, Michael Peters wrote: >>the Loopers Delight 'essential loop recordings' page needs updates. It >>contains some essential recordings reviews, but many are still missing. >The >>page hasn't changed for quite a while now. >> >>So we need your contributions - please write reviews, and send them to >me - >>but please send in only reviews of recordings that are truly essential. >What >>is essential? Kim writes, >> >>>they might be recordings where new ideas or techniques in looping were >>>first introduced, or where looping was first heard in a type of music >>>where it hadn't been used before, or recordings/artists that influenced >a >>>lot of people to become interested in looping or expand their abilities >>>as loopers, etc. > >Hi folks, >I'd really like to see some discussion of this. What are essential >recordings of the past couple decades that have influenced the use of >looping in music? The "essential recordings" section of Looper's Delight >pretty much stops in the early 80's. Surely something has happened since then! > >Let's start with the 90's. We've had a few years now to gain some >perspective. What were the influential looping recordings of that decade? >Surely there was a lot going on. Innovative artists from David Torn to >Phil >Keaggy to Aphex Twin, an explosion of electronic music, a wide variety of >new looping tools being used in many different ways, etc. How about Andre >LaFosse from this list, who so many people mention? > >So let's hear it. What were 5 albums from the 90's that you think >influenced looping? (or influenced you and your looping.) Can you say >something short about each one about what makes it essential listening >for >loopers? > >We can gather up some ideas and the more commonly mentioned items can get >enshrined in the "essential recordings" page. > >kim > > >______________________________________________________________________ >Kim Flint | Looper's Delight >kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > > --- "The only things I really think are important, are love, and eachother. -Then, anything is possible..." http://home.earthlink.net/~thefates Please visit BadFiction and The Guitar Cafe. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/badfiction http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-guitar-cafe