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At 02:44 PM 6/25/2003, mark wrote: >I've got to disagree with Andre's idea of what an "essential" recording >is. Why should it have to be technically groundbreaking in some way? >Can't it just be really good music? (In this case really good loop music) That seems like another fine way for something to be included on the "essential recordings" page at LD. Sometimes the first use of a new idea or technique is not really a very good piece of music. For a list of recordings that people interested in looping should really check out, it may be much better to find some use of that idea or technique that was also really good music, even though it came a bit later. I'll never forget the experience of being in computer music class in college listening to discussions of really interesting approaches to composition or sound design or instruments or whatever that some academic composer had thought up, followed by truly horrible musical examples created by that same academic. I sure don't want to repeat that here! But part of the point of the essential recordings page is that the music was significant or influential to looping in some way. One way could be that it is simply good music with loops that a lot of people liked, and therefore influenced a lot of people to get interested in looping. Radiohead could fit there, I don't know really. Can you suggest an album and write a paragraph reviewing how it used loops and how it made some impact? I think we have a couple of Radiohead albums around here someplace. I'll have to find them and listen again, after the John Zorn skronk-a-thon I've got on now. We do want to avoid having the "Essential Recording" page be filled with hundreds of albums that one person or another happened to like and that happened to use looping somewhere. Michael and I have both had the experience over the past few years of people emailing us suggestions like that where the group had no obvious impact on the looping universe. We think the bar should be a little higher for this section. We want to do another section where loopers can put up all their favorite cds on their own and include little reviews and such. (by the way, is somebody interested in helping out with that? I figure there is probably some precreated php app out there that exactly serves this purpose, maybe we just need to hunt it down and set it up.) kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com